European Central Bank — ECB wage tracker (EWT)

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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)

Filterable via the API (9)

FREQREF_AREAADJUSTMENTEWT_INDICATOREWT_CONCEPTACTIVITYCOMPILING_ORGTRANSFORMATIONTIME_PERIOD

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Field	Type	Description
FREQFrequency	dimension	3 codes (e.g. Annual, Monthly, Quarterly)
REF_AREAReference area	dimension	1 codes (e.g. Euro area (Member States and Institutions of the Euro Area) changing composition)
ADJUSTMENTAdjustment indicator	dimension	1 codes (e.g. Neither seasonally nor working day adjusted)
EWT_INDICATOR	dimension	1 codes (e.g. Wage Tracker)
EWT_CONCEPT	dimension	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	1 codes (e.g. Total - all NACE activities)
COMPILING_ORGCompiling organisation	dimension	1 codes (e.g. European Central Bank (ECB))
TRANSFORMATION	dimension	2 codes (e.g. Not applicable, Growth rate %, over 1 year)
TIME_PERIODTime period or range	time	Time dimension — filter with startPeriod / endPeriod query params.
OBS_VALUEObservation value	number	The observed numeric value for each cell.
TIME_FORMATTime format code	attribute	—
COLLECTIONCollection indicator	attribute	—
DISS_ORGData dissemination organisation	attribute	—
DECIMALS	attribute	—
TITLE	attribute	—
TITLE_COMPLTitle complement	attribute	—
UNIT	attribute	—
UNIT_MULTUnit multiplier	attribute	—
OBS_STATUSObservation status	attribute	—
OBS_CONFObservation confidentiality	attribute	—
OBS_PRE_BREAKPre-break observation value	attribute	—
OBS_COMObservation comment	attribute	—

Schema captured from sdmx 1 month ago.

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Sample data (5 records)

Record 1FREQ: A · ACTIVITY: _T

{
  "FREQ": "A",
  "ACTIVITY": "_T",
  "REF_AREA": "U2",
  "OBS_VALUE": 43.1645613257208,
  "ADJUSTMENT": "N",
  "EWT_CONCEPT": "COVR",
  "TIME_PERIOD": "2026",
  "COMPILING_ORG": "4F0",
  "EWT_INDICATOR": "WT",
  "TRANSFORMATION": "_Z"
}

Record 2FREQ: A · ACTIVITY: _T

{
  "FREQ": "A",
  "ACTIVITY": "_T",
  "REF_AREA": "U2",
  "OBS_VALUE": 2.60864167994797,
  "ADJUSTMENT": "N",
  "EWT_CONCEPT": "INWR",
  "TIME_PERIOD": "2026",
  "COMPILING_ORG": "4F0",
  "EWT_INDICATOR": "WT",
  "TRANSFORMATION": "GY"
}

Record 3FREQ: A · ACTIVITY: _T

{
  "FREQ": "A",
  "ACTIVITY": "_T",
  "REF_AREA": "U2",
  "OBS_VALUE": 2.28056201869282,
  "ADJUSTMENT": "N",
  "EWT_CONCEPT": "INWS",
  "TIME_PERIOD": "2026",
  "COMPILING_ORG": "4F0",
  "EWT_INDICATOR": "WT",
  "TRANSFORMATION": "GY"
}

Record 4FREQ: A · ACTIVITY: _T

{
  "FREQ": "A",
  "ACTIVITY": "_T",
  "REF_AREA": "U2",
  "OBS_VALUE": 2.59529214961134,
  "ADJUSTMENT": "N",
  "EWT_CONCEPT": "INWX",
  "TIME_PERIOD": "2026",
  "COMPILING_ORG": "4F0",
  "EWT_INDICATOR": "WT",
  "TRANSFORMATION": "GY"
}

Record 5FREQ: M · ACTIVITY: _T

{
  "FREQ": "M",
  "ACTIVITY": "_T",
  "REF_AREA": "U2",
  "OBS_VALUE": 40.0374652084942,
  "ADJUSTMENT": "N",
  "EWT_CONCEPT": "COVR",
  "TIME_PERIOD": "2026-12",
  "COMPILING_ORG": "4F0",
  "EWT_INDICATOR": "WT",
  "TRANSFORMATION": "_Z"
}

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