Arbeitskräfteüberlassungs-KV 2026 and 2027

How much salaries under the Arbeitskräfteüberlassungs-KV (also: temporary agency work agreement) rise in 2027, what is left of it after tax and whether the rounds since 2019 kept up with inflation. With the 2026 salary table and minimum salaries, every raise against inflation over the reference period and the net effect on your salary, for blue-collar temporary agency workers in Austria.

Your net pay 2026 and 2027

+€58.82 vs. 2026
€2,894.74
per month from 1 January 2027 · agreed
€2,835.92
per month since 1 January 2026
Net 68.58% SI 18.14% Income tax 13.28%
Net raise
2.07%
net 2027 ÷ net 2026
Deductions on the raise
50.99%
SI + wage tax ÷ gross raise

2026 and 2027 compared

Value20262027
Min. salaries
+2.30%+2.00%
Actual salaries
––
Inflation
3.01%3.26%
Your gross €4,239.00€4,324.00
per year €59,346.00€60,536.00
Your net €2,835.92€2,894.74
per year €40,677.19€41,515.55
Purchasing power
−1.34%−0.51%

Raise compared with inflation

Minimum salaries (avg. of all steps)
Inflation, reference period

Main employment

€

2028 round

  1. Next round
    around November 2027
  2. 2027 agreement
    agreed on 10 December 2025 · applies from 1 January 2027
    Minimum salaries+2.00%
    Actual salaries–
    over-payments kept in euros

Your grade in the agreement

F Techniciansper month
Minimum 2026€4,154.87
per year€58,168.18
Minimum 2027€4,237.97
Your gross€4,239.00
Above the minimum+€84.13 (+2.02%)
Above the minimum 2027+€86.03 (+2.03%)

What the Arbeitskräfteüberlassungs-KV covers

The Arbeitskräfteüberlassungs-KV (Kollektivvertrag für ArbeiterInnen im Gewerbe der Arbeitskräfteüberlassung (KVAÜ)) covers blue-collar temporary agency workers. It is negotiated between WKÖ: Fachverband der gewerblichen Dienstleister, Berufsgruppe Personaldienstleister and Gewerkschaft PRO-GE. It sets a minimum salary for 6 groups, currently from €2,327 to €4,155 gross a month. It is paid 14 times a year: the holiday pay and Christmas pay are set by the agreement and taxed at a preferential rate.

It is renegotiated every year, usually from November; the raise applies from 1 January. The starting point is inflation over the reference period, last time October 2024 – September 2025 at 3.01%. The union makes a demand, the employers an offer, and the deal lands in between. It lifts the minimum salaries; anyone paid more keeps their over-payment in euros.

What is left of a raise after tax depends on your salary: each extra euro carries social insurance and wage tax at your marginal rate, so net pay usually grows a little less, in percent, than gross. Whether a deal is enough shows in purchasing power: since 2019 minimum salaries under the Arbeitskräfteüberlassungs-KV rose by 41.28%, prices over the reference periods by 38.48%.

Minimum salaries
Inflation, reference period

Arbeitskräfteüberlassungs-KV: pay and prices since 2018. How much salaries have risen in total since 2018 (each minimum raise on top of the last, +41.28% so far), against inflation over the reference periods (+38.48%). Where the solid line is on top, salaries gained purchasing power.

Minimum salaries, blue-collar, from 1 January 2026

Group
per hour
per month (× 167.40 h)
A Unskilled workers (first year in the company)
€13.90
€2,326.86
B Semi-skilled workers
€13.90
€2,326.86
C Qualified workers
€15.62
€2,614.79
D Skilled workers
€17.50
€2,929.50
E Highly skilled workers
€20.14
€3,371.44
F Technicians
€24.82
€4,154.87

Wage table: one minimum hourly wage (base wage) per employment group, gross, nationwide, with no seniority steps. Group A applies only in the first year in the company, then group B. Normal working time is 38.5 hours a week; the protocols convert to the minimum monthly wage at 167.4 hours. During an assignment the higher wage under the user company's collective agreement is owed, in the reference industries with a percentage surcharge; the base wage here applies in any case, also between assignments. Allowances, supplements and apprentices are not included.

Agreements since 2019

Year
From
Minimum salaries
Actual salaries
Inflation in period
2027
1 January 2027
+2.00%
over-payment kept in euros
3.26%
2026
1 January 2026
+2.30%
over-payment kept in euros
3.01%
2025
1 January 2025
+3.80%
over-payment kept in euros
3.82%
2024
1 January 2024
+8.50%
over-payment kept in euros
9.17%
2023
1 January 2023
+7.99% to 8.55%
over-payment kept in euros
6.90%
2022
1 January 2022
+3.45%
over-payment kept in euros
2.06%
2021
1 January 2021
+1.45%
over-payment kept in euros
1.46%
2020
1 January 2020
+2.40%
over-payment kept in euros
1.71%
2019
1 January 2019
+2.90%
over-payment kept in euros
2.02%

Related agreements

Branch
2026
Inflation
2027
History
Reinigungs-KV
+3.25%
3.01%
≥ +3.10%agreed
Bewachungs-KV
+3.09%
3.01%
≈ +3.40%in talks
IT-KV
+2.75%
3.52%
≈ +2.90%in talks
Banken-KV
+3.14%
3.52%
≈ +3.20%forecast
Versicherungs-KV
+3.10%
3.52%
≈ +3.30%forecast

Frequently asked questions

Agreed: minimum salaries +2.00%, actual salaries over-payment kept in euros, from 1 January 2027.
Under the salary table from 1 January 2026, between €2,326.86 (A Unskilled workers, first year in the company, 167.4 hours a month) and €4,154.87 (F Technicians, 167.4 hours a month) gross a month, paid 14 times a year. It is a floor: your employer may pay more (over-payment), never less.
Talks usually start in November; the new salaries apply from 1 January. The round is negotiated against inflation over the reference period, the twelve months before it (last time October 2024 – September 2025: 3.01%).
The minimum raise lifts the salary table, the floor per group and step. The Arbeitskräfteüberlassungs-KV has no separate actual raise: anyone paid above the minimum keeps their over-payment in euros, so their salary rises by the same euro amount as the minimum of their step.
Yes. The minimum salary applies in proportion to your hours: at 20 of 40 weekly hours, half of it. The raise in percent is the same as for full-time.
Yes. Holiday and Christmas pay follow the monthly salary in force when they are paid. So you get a raise 14 times a year, and both special payments stay taxed at the preferential rate up to the annual sixth.
Then your employer has to top you up to the new minimum of your group and step from the effective date. Check your grade with the table on this page. You can claim shortfalls back, but many agreements set short deadlines for that, so talk to your works council, union or the Chamber of Labour early.
From 2019 to 2027 minimum salaries rose by 41.28% in total, inflation over the reference periods by 38.48%. In 5 of 9 years the raise matched or beat inflation. Over the whole period the rounds kept up with inflation.
  • Table, 2026–2027 · WKO: Abschlussprotokoll KVAÜ 2026, mit Lohnabschluss 1.1.2027 (Wien, am 10.12.2025)
  • 2025 · WKO: Abschlussprotokoll KVAÜ 2025 (Wien, am 3.12.2024)
  • 2024 · WKO: Abschlussprotokoll KVAÜ 2024, mit Lohnabschluss 1.1.2025 (Wien, im Februar 2024)
  • 2023 · WKO: Abschlussprotokoll KVAÜ 2023 (Wien, am 15.12.2022)
  • 2022 · WKO: Abschlussprotokoll KVAÜ 2022 (Wien, am 21.12.2021)
  • 2021 · WKO: Information zum KV-Abschluss der Arbeitskräfteüberlassung 2021 (Ergebnis vom 26.3.2021)
  • 2020 · WKO: Information zum KV-Abschluss der Arbeitskräfteüberlassung 2020 (Ergebnis vom 13.12.2019)
  • 2019 · WKO: Informationen zum KV-Abschluss für ArbeiterInnen im Gewerbe der Arbeitskräfteüberlassung 2019 (Ergebnis vom 17.12.2018)