Bau-KV 2026 and 2027 forecast

How much salaries under the Bau-KV are expected to rise in 2027, what is left of it after tax and whether the rounds since 2017 kept up with inflation. With the 2026 salary table and minimum salaries, every raise against inflation over the reference period, a 2027 forecast and the net effect on your salary, for construction workers in Austria.
Your net pay 2026 and 2027+€77 vs. 2026
€2,724.19
per month from 1 May 2027 · forecast
€2,646.74
per month since 1 May 2026
Net 69.93% SI 18.14% Income tax 11.93%
Net raise
2.93%
net 2027 ÷ net 2026
Deductions on the raise
37.03%
SI + wage tax ÷ gross raise
Agreement20262027 · forecast
Min. salaries
+3.59%≈ +3.20%
Actual salaries
––
Inflation
3.52%3.08%
Your gross €3,853.00€3,976.00
per year €53,942.00€55,664.00
Your net €2,646.74€2,724.19
per year €37,805.23€38,926.40
Purchasing power
−0.36%+0.51%

Raise compared with inflation

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

Main employment

€

2027 round

  1. 2027 deal, forecast≈ +3.20%
    range 2.80% to 3.50%, from inflation and the last 3 rounds · would apply from 1 May 2027
  2. Talks begin
    around January 2027
  3. Inflation over the reference periodØ 3.08%
    January – December 2026 · 3 months forecast
  4. 2026 agreement
    agreed on 28 January 2025 · applies from 1 May 2026
    Minimum salaries+3.60%
    Actual salaries–
    over-payments kept in euros

No negotiations yet. Under the 2025 deal they are to start in January 2027, based on the 2026 annual inflation.

Your grade in the agreement

I Deputy foremanper month
Minimum 2026€3,825.62
per year€53,558.68
Minimum 2027, forecast≈ €3,948.04
Your gross€3,853.00
Above the minimum+€27.38 (+0.72%)
Above the minimum 2027, forecast≈ +€27.96 (+0.71%)

What the Bau-KV covers

The Bau-KV (Kollektivvertrag für Bauindustrie und Baugewerbe (Arbeiter)) covers construction workers. It is negotiated between WKÖ: Bundesinnung Bau und Fachverband der Bauindustrie and Gewerkschaft Bau-Holz (GBH). It sets a minimum salary for 9 groups, currently from €2,887 to €3,826 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 January; the raise applies from 1 May. The starting point is inflation over the reference period, last time January – December 2025 at 3.52%. 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 2018 minimum salaries under the Bau-KV rose by 44.43%, prices over the reference periods by 37.97%.

Minimum salaries
Inflation, reference period

Bau-KV: pay and prices since 2017. How much salaries have risen in total since 2017 (each minimum raise on top of the last, +44.43% so far), against inflation over the reference periods (+37.97%). Where the solid line is on top, salaries gained purchasing power.

Minimum salaries, blue-collar, from 1 May 2026

Group
per hour
per month (× 169.50 h)
I Deputy foreman
€22.57
€3,825.62
IIa Charge hand
€21.96
€3,722.22
IIb Skilled worker
€19.99
€3,388.31
IIIa Semi-skilled
€19.98
€3,386.61
IIIb Semi-skilled
€19.53
€3,310.34
IIIc Semi-skilled
€19.08
€3,234.06
IIId Semi-skilled
€18.59
€3,151.01
IIIe Semi-skilled
€17.91
€3,035.75
IV Construction labourer
€17.03
€2,886.59

Wage table: one collectively agreed hourly wage per wage group, gross, with no seniority steps. The table converts it to a month at 169.5 hours (39-hour week). Holiday and Christmas pay come on top. Apprentices, interns and allowances are not included. Wage group V no longer exists since 1 May 2023.

Agreements since 2017

Year
From
Minimum salaries
Actual salaries
Inflation in period
2027
1 May 2027
Next round from 1 May 2027
3.08%*
2026
1 May 2026
+3.60%
over-payment kept in euros
3.52%
2025
1 May 2025
+2.70%
over-payment kept in euros
2.94%
2024
1 May 2024
+7.15%
over-payment kept in euros
6.76%
2023
1 May 2023
+9.50%
over-payment kept in euros
9.47%
2022
1 May 2022
+4.20%
over-payment kept in euros
3.50%
2021
1 May 2021
+2.10%
over-payment kept in euros
1.27%
2020
1 May 2020
+2.55%
over-payment kept in euros
1.58%
2019
1 May 2019
+3.35%
over-payment kept in euros
1.96%
2018
1 May 2018
+2.60%
over-payment kept in euros
2.05%
2017
1 May 2017
+1.50%
over-payment kept in euros
1.06%

Frequently asked questions

Not agreed yet. Our forecast: minimum salaries about +3.20% (range 2.80% to 3.50%). It starts from inflation over the reference period January – December 2026 (3.08%, partly a WIFO forecast) and adds how far above or below inflation the branch settled in its last 3 rounds.
Under the salary table from 1 May 2026, between €2,886.59 (IV Construction labourer, 169.5 hours a month) and €3,825.62 (I Deputy foreman, 169.5 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 January; the new salaries apply from 1 May. The round is negotiated against inflation over the reference period, the twelve months before it (last time January – December 2025: 3.52%).
The minimum raise lifts the salary table, the floor per group and step. The Bau-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 2018 to 2026 minimum salaries rose by 44.43% in total, inflation over the reference periods by 37.97%. In 8 of 9 years the raise matched or beat inflation. Over the whole period the rounds kept up with inflation.
  • Table · WKO: Kollektivvertrag für Bauindustrie und Baugewerbe, Lohntafel gültig ab 1.5.2026 (PDF)
  • 2025–2027 · Abschlussprotokoll, Vereinbarung vom 28.1.2025 (Bundesinnung Bau, FV Bauindustrie, GBH)
  • 2024 · Bundesinnung Bau: Kollektivvertrag ab 1. Mai 2024
  • 2023 · WKO: Information zum KV-Abschluss 2023 (Vereinbarung vom 13.3.2023)
  • 2021–2022 · WKO: Information zum KV-Abschluss 2021 (Vereinbarung vom 8.4.2021)
  • 2020 · Bauzeitung 09/10 2020, Bundesinnung Bau: Neue Löhne und Gehälter ab Mai 2020
  • 2019 · WKO: Information zum KV-Abschluss 2019 für Arbeiter/innen in der Bauindustrie und im Baugewerbe
  • 2017–2018 · Salzburger Nachrichten/APA, 21.3.2017: Bauarbeiter erhalten mehr Lohn – KV-Abschluss für zwei Jahre · press