Gastro-KV 2026 and 2027 forecast

The Gastro-KV (Kollektivvertrag für Arbeitnehmer:innen im Hotel- und Gastgewerbe (bis Oktober 2024: für Arbeiter:innen)) covers workers in restaurants and hotels. It is negotiated between WKÖ: Fachverband Gastronomie und Fachverband Hotellerie and Gewerkschaft vida (Arbeiter:innen), Gewerkschaft GPA (Angestellte). It sets a minimum salary for 5 groups with up to 5 steps, currently from €2,097 to €2,828 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 February; 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 only. Anyone paid above them gets the raise only where the new minimum exceeds their pay; the over-payment shrinks accordingly.

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 Gastro-KV rose by 43.06%, prices over the reference periods by 37.49%.

Gastro-KV: pay and prices since 2017. How much salaries have risen in total since 2017 (each minimum raise on top of the last, +43.06% so far), against inflation over the reference periods (+37.49%). Where the solid line is on top, salaries gained purchasing power.