Average salary in Israel: ₪209,935 a year (OECD, 2025)
Average annual wage (full-time equivalent employee) in Israel: ₪209,935 a year (2025, OECD). By occupation, managers earn the most and elementary occupations the least.
The OECD puts the average annual wage for a full-time equivalent employee in Israel at ₪209,935 in 2025 (OECD Average annual wages (OECD Earnings database), 2025). That is total wage bill divided by full-time equivalent jobs, so it is pulled up by high earners and is not what a typical worker takes home.
ILOSTAT reports mean monthly earnings of employees of ₪10,928 a month for 2021 (ILOSTAT EAR_EMTA_SEX_OCU_NB (HIES - Income Survey), 2021). Employment definition: Including subsistence workers Central tendency measure: Weighted mean A mean is skewed upward by top earners; the typical employee earns less.
The occupation split (ILOSTAT EAR_EMTA_SEX_OCU_NB, 2021) runs from ₪20,464 a month for managers to ₪5,128 for elementary occupations. These are broad ISCO-08 groups, not individual job titles.
Israel shows about 3% CPI in 2025 (World Bank Open Data), with GDP per capita about US$60,337. We do not yet publish role-level medians for Israel, so there are no per-job pages here.
What we can say about pay in Israel today
Treat ₪209,935 a year as a national reference point, not an offer benchmark. Official averages blend every sector, age, and hours pattern. Compare a real offer with the occupation group that matches it, then run the take-home and cost of living calculators.