Moi, writing from across the sea here.

I was just for fun comparing wages 2010 vs 2025 between different countries and decided to pop Finland in as a comparison of a great countr with great growth. In my head Finland has never been stagnating but, it seems like I'm wrong?

https://www.statista.com/statistics/416203/average-annual-wages-finland-y-on-y-in-euros/

https://www.statista.com/statistics/529917/finland-average-monthly-earnings-by-sector/

I have a feeling that the first chart is misleading, but how much of it is this true? And how much do you feel is true?

On the second chart, which is probably a bit more accurate the wages have also not kept up with the inflation.

https://www.in2013dollars.com/europe/inflation/2013?endYear=2023&amount=2950

Thank you for any insightful answers.

by ActiveVoiced

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  1. >[https://www.statista.com/statistics/416203/average-annual-wages-finland-y-on-y-in-euros/](https://www.statista.com/statistics/416203/average-annual-wages-finland-y-on-y-in-euros/)

    Free statista does disclose additional information, but anyway my uni have access to this, and this is the additional info for this:

    **Details:** Finland; OECD; 2012 to 2023; at constant 2023 prices

    So for that chart, it is already using 2023 euro, aka already adjusted for inflation.

    That said there is stagnation still since real wage growth is still very weak throughout the past decade, and obviously decreased in the past 3 years as seen in the chart

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