La retribuzione settimanale mediana tra i nuovi occupati è aumentata del 6,3% a 428,58 € nel 2024

**Key Findings**

* Employments among new entrants accounted for 8.0% of the total employments in 2024, down from 8.9% in 2023. More than two in five (40.6%) new entrants were aged 15-24 years.

* Irish nationals accounted for the largest proportion of new entrants in 2024 at 42.5%, followed by Indian (9.0%) and Ukrainian (5.1%) nationals.

* Of the new entrants of Irish nationality, almost two-thirds (64.5%) were aged 15-24 years. Of the nationalities individually listed in this analysis, Irish nationals were the only nationality cohort where the proportion of new entrants aged 15-24 years was larger than that aged 25-64 years.

* The sector with the highest proportion of new entrant employments in 2024 was Accommodation & Food Services, in which 19.4% of all employments were represented by new entrants. This compares with Public Administration & Defence where new entrant employments accounted for 1.8% of all employments in the sector.

* In 2024, median weekly earnings among new entrant employments stood at €428.58, up 6.3% on 2023 (€403.08). This compares with an annual increase in weekly earnings of 4.5% across total employments.

* More than half (55.0%) of the 2023 new entrant cohort were recorded in the same primary employment in 2024, while a further 21.4% were in a different primary employment.

* The annual increase in median weekly earnings (13.2%) tended to be least among those who stayed in their primary employment, rising from €450.75 in 2023 to €510.11 in 2024, while those who changed employment recorded an increase of 40.0%.

https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-enee/earningsofnewentrantstoemployment2024/keyfindings/