- Youth unemployment
- no data
- Recent-grad employment
- no data
- Average wage (PPP)
- no data
- Price level
- 105 EU27 = 100 · 2024
- Housing squeeze
- 9.6 % · 2025
Jobs & cost of living · Euro area
For recent grads: how easy it is to find work, how good the jobs are, what they pay and what life costs.
Grad view
| Latest | Euro area |
|---|---|
| Job vacancy rate % | 2.2Q4 2025 |
| Long-term unemployed (1 year +) % of unemployed | 32.32025 |
| Price level of household consumption (EU27 = 100) EU27 = 100 | 1052024 |
| Price level: food (EU27 = 100) EU27 = 100 | 1032024 |
| Price level: housing, water, energy (EU27 = 100) EU27 = 100 | 1082024 |
| Price level: transport (EU27 = 100) EU27 = 100 | 1032024 |
| Price level: restaurants and hotels (EU27 = 100) EU27 = 100 | 1022024 |
| Big Mac price US$ | 7.08H2 2026 |
| Housing cost overburden, aged 25–29 % | 9.62025 |
| Still living with their parents, 25–29 % | 41.52025 |
Finding a job
Job vacancy rate
vacancies ÷ (jobs + vacancies) · US JOLTS openings rate · %Long-term unemployed (1 year +)
share of the unemployed · % of unemployedCost of living
Price level of household consumption (EU27 = 100)
EU27 = 100Price level: food (EU27 = 100)
EU27 = 100Price level: housing, water, energy (EU27 = 100)
EU27 = 100Price level: transport (EU27 = 100)
EU27 = 100Price level: restaurants and hotels (EU27 = 100)
EU27 = 100Big Mac price
NL and EU: euro-area average · US$Housing
Housing cost overburden, aged 25–29
living in a household spending over 40 % of income on housing · %Still living with their parents, 25–29
%Not available for Euro area: Unemployment rate, Youth unemployment, 15–24, Unemployment, 25–29, Unemployment with a degree, Job openings per unemployed person, Quits rate, Employment rate of recent graduates, Employment rate, tertiary-educated 25–34, Not in employment, education or training (NEET), Graduate earnings premium, Temporary contracts, Temporary contracts, 15–24, Part-time work, Hours worked per worker, per year, Very long hours (50 h + a week), Usual weekly hours, full-time job, Average annual wage, Median full-time wage (approx.), Real wage growth, Minimum wage, hourly, Minimum wage vs median wage, Minimum wage, monthly (EU), Price level of household consumption, Price level now (OECD, monthly), House price-to-income, House price-to-rent, Rents.