European Central Bank — ECB wage tracker (EWT)
The ECB wage tracker (EWT) is an official time series dataset published by the European Central Bank through its Data Portal, distributed as the EWT dataflow over the SDMX 2.1 REST API. A single endpoint serves data in multiple formats, including XML (SDMX-ML), CSV (via ?format=csvdata) and JSON (via ?format=jsondata), allowing users to extract specific series using a key path together with startPeriod, endPeriod and lastNObservations filters. The same underlying series can also be browsed and charted interactively on the ECB Data Portal website. The dataset covers euro area wage developments and is intended for economic analysis and monitoring of price and labour-cost trends.ECB wage tracker (EWT) — official time series from the European Central Bank Data Portal, published as the EWT dataflow over SDMX 2.1 REST. One endpoint serves XML (SDMX-ML), CSV (?format=csvdata) and JSON (?format=jsondata); extract exactly the series you need with a key path and startPeriod / endPeriod / lastNObservations filters. Browse and chart the same series on the ECB Data Portal.
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Data schema (22 fields)
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| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| FREQFrequency | dimension | Frequency of the observation, e.g. annual, monthly, quarterly.3 codes (e.g. Annual, Monthly, Quarterly) |
| REF_AREAReference area | dimension | Geographic reference area code for the observation, e.g. euro area.1 codes (e.g. Euro area (Member States and Institutions of the Euro Area) changing composition) |
| ADJUSTMENTAdjustment indicator | dimension | Indicates whether data is seasonally and/or working-day adjusted.1 codes (e.g. Neither seasonally nor working day adjusted) |
| EWT_INDICATOR | dimension | Identifies the ECB wage tracker indicator series.1 codes (e.g. Wage Tracker) |
| EWT_CONCEPT | dimension | Specific wage tracker concept covered by the observation, e.g. coverage or wage growth measure.4 codes (e.g. Employee coverage as a share of the total number of employees in the Wage Tracker reference area (in %), Including one-off payments, Including smoothed one-off payments) |
| ACTIVITYActivity classification | dimension | Economic activity classification covered, e.g. all NACE activities.1 codes (e.g. Total - all NACE activities) |
| COMPILING_ORGCompiling organisation | dimension | Organisation that compiled the data, e.g. the ECB.1 codes (e.g. European Central Bank (ECB)) |
| TRANSFORMATION | dimension | Type of statistical transformation applied, e.g. growth rate.2 codes (e.g. Not applicable, Growth rate %, over 1 year) |
| TIME_PERIODTime period or range | time | Time period of the observation; filterable via startPeriod/endPeriod.Time dimension — filter with startPeriod / endPeriod query params. |
| OBS_VALUEObservation value | number | Numeric value of the observation.The observed numeric value for each cell. |
| TIME_FORMATTime format code | attribute | Code indicating the format of the time period value.Code indicating the format of the time period value. |
| COLLECTIONCollection indicator | attribute | Indicator of how the data collection is aggregated over time.Indicator of how the data collection is aggregated over time. |
| DISS_ORGData dissemination organisation | attribute | Organisation responsible for disseminating the data.Organisation responsible for disseminating the data. |
| DECIMALS | attribute | Number of decimal places used in the observation value.Number of decimal places used in the observation value. |
| TITLE | attribute | Short title describing the data series.Short title describing the data series. |
| TITLE_COMPLTitle complement | attribute | Additional descriptive text complementing the series title.Additional descriptive text complementing the series title. |
| UNIT | attribute | Unit of measurement for the observation value.Unit of measurement for the observation value. |
| UNIT_MULTUnit multiplier | attribute | Power-of-ten multiplier applied to the observation value.Power-of-ten multiplier applied to the observation value. |
| OBS_STATUSObservation status | attribute | Status code of the observation, e.g. estimated or actual.Status code of the observation, e.g. estimated or actual. |
| OBS_CONFObservation confidentiality | attribute | Confidentiality status of the observation.Confidentiality status of the observation. |
| OBS_PRE_BREAKPre-break observation value | attribute | Observation value prior to a break in the time series.Observation value prior to a break in the time series. |
| OBS_COMObservation comment | attribute | Free-text comment relating to the observation.Free-text comment relating to the observation. |
Schema captured from sdmx 2 days ago.
Query the data
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Sample data (5 records)
Record 1FREQ: A · OBS_COM: —
{
"FREQ": "A",
"OBS_COM": null,
"ACTIVITY": "_T",
"OBS_CONF": "F",
"REF_AREA": "U2",
"OBS_VALUE": 46.8907182982569,
"ADJUSTMENT": "N",
"OBS_STATUS": "A",
"EWT_CONCEPT": "COVR",
"TIME_PERIOD": "2026",
"COMPILING_ORG": "4F0",
"EWT_INDICATOR": "WT",
"OBS_PRE_BREAK": null,
"TRANSFORMATION": "_Z"
}Record 2FREQ: A · OBS_COM: —
{
"FREQ": "A",
"OBS_COM": null,
"ACTIVITY": "_T",
"OBS_CONF": "F",
"REF_AREA": "U2",
"OBS_VALUE": 2.57308741294386,
"ADJUSTMENT": "N",
"OBS_STATUS": "E",
"EWT_CONCEPT": "INWR",
"TIME_PERIOD": "2026",
"COMPILING_ORG": "4F0",
"EWT_INDICATOR": "WT",
"OBS_PRE_BREAK": null,
"TRANSFORMATION": "GY"
}Record 3FREQ: A · OBS_COM: —
{
"FREQ": "A",
"OBS_COM": null,
"ACTIVITY": "_T",
"OBS_CONF": "F",
"REF_AREA": "U2",
"OBS_VALUE": 2.20154475040506,
"ADJUSTMENT": "N",
"OBS_STATUS": "E",
"EWT_CONCEPT": "INWS",
"TIME_PERIOD": "2026",
"COMPILING_ORG": "4F0",
"EWT_INDICATOR": "WT",
"OBS_PRE_BREAK": null,
"TRANSFORMATION": "GY"
}Record 4FREQ: A · OBS_COM: —
{
"FREQ": "A",
"OBS_COM": null,
"ACTIVITY": "_T",
"OBS_CONF": "F",
"REF_AREA": "U2",
"OBS_VALUE": 2.56724538407473,
"ADJUSTMENT": "N",
"OBS_STATUS": "E",
"EWT_CONCEPT": "INWX",
"TIME_PERIOD": "2026",
"COMPILING_ORG": "4F0",
"EWT_INDICATOR": "WT",
"OBS_PRE_BREAK": null,
"TRANSFORMATION": "GY"
}Record 5FREQ: M · OBS_COM: —
{
"FREQ": "M",
"OBS_COM": null,
"ACTIVITY": "_T",
"OBS_CONF": "F",
"REF_AREA": "U2",
"OBS_VALUE": 24.2271417290134,
"ADJUSTMENT": "N",
"OBS_STATUS": "A",
"EWT_CONCEPT": "COVR",
"TIME_PERIOD": "2027-06",
"COMPILING_ORG": "4F0",
"EWT_INDICATOR": "WT",
"OBS_PRE_BREAK": null,
"TRANSFORMATION": "_Z"
}Live sample captured at profiling time — values may have changed upstream.
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