Country

Austria

Full labour cost: €46.30 an hour (2025, provisional). Gross wages by occupation below are from 2022.

Occupation group	€ per hour
Professionals (ISCO 2)	€27.40
Technicians and associate professionals (ISCO 3)	€22.45
Clerical support workers (ISCO 4)	€18.38
Service and sales workers (ISCO 5)	€14.02

€46.30 / hour, 2025, provisional

Eurostat, Labour cost levels by NACE Rev. 2 activity (lc_lci_lev) (doi:10.2908/LC_LCI_LEV). All economy except agriculture and public administration; wages plus employer costs.

EU average: €34.90 (2025).

Tasks in Austria

Task	Person	Agent + check	Person ÷ agent
Reply to a customer support email	€2.45	€0.33	7.4×
Answer a customer chat	€1.17	€0.14	8.2×
Enter a supplier invoice	€1.53	€0.17	9×
Check an expense claim	€1.23	€0.17	7.1×
Reconcile 50 bank lines	€9.19	€1.30	7.1×
Triage 20 shared-inbox emails	€3.06	€0.35	8.7×
Write minutes for a 30-minute meeting	€7.66	€1.27	6×
Clean a 200-row contact list	€9.19	€1.37	6.7×
Research one B2B lead	€7.48	€1.29	5.8×
Log a 15-minute sales call	€3.74	€0.40	9.3×
Screen one CV	€2.25	€0.39	5.8×
Draft a social media post	€5.61	€0.76	7.4×
Write a help-centre article	€14.97	€2.28	6.6×
Write a product description	€9.13	€1.39	6.6×
Translate one page	€22.83	€4.59	5×
Write a job ad	€13.70	€2.31	5.9×
Summarise a 10-page contract	€27.40	€4.62	5.9×
Triage a bug report	€6.85	€1.43	4.8×
Review a small pull request	€13.70	€2.36	5.8×
Write a SQL report query	€13.70	€2.33	5.9×

Person = estimated minutes × the occupation wage. Agent = Claude Sonnet 5.5 tokens + estimated human check. Method