Metallgewerbe-KV 2026 and 2027

How much salaries under the Metallgewerbe-KV 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 and the net effect on your salary, for manual workers in the metal trades in Austria.

Your net pay 2026 and 2027

+€54.42 vs. 2026

€2,884.45

per month from 1 January 2027 · agreed

€2,830.03

per month since 1 January 2026

Net 68.66% SI 18.14% Income tax 13.20%

Net raise

1.92%

net 2027 ÷ net 2026

Deductions on the raise

50.99%

SI + wage tax ÷ gross raise

2026 and 2027 compared

Value	2026	2027
Minimum salaries	+2.20%	+2.00%
Actual salaries	+1.80%	+1.80%
Inflation	3.01%	3.26%
Your gross	€4,227.00	€4,303.00
per year	€59,178.00	€60,242.00
Your net	€2,830.03	€2,884.45
per year	€40,587.81	€41,359.34
Purchasing power	−1.69%	−0.66%

Value	2026	2027
Min. salaries	+2.20%	+2.00%
Actual salaries	+1.80%	+1.80%
Inflation	3.01%	3.26%
Your gross	€4,227.00	€4,303.00
per year	€59,178.00	€60,242.00
Your net	€2,830.03	€2,884.45
per year	€40,587.81	€41,359.34
Purchasing power	−1.69%	−0.66%

Raise compared with inflation

Minimum salaries (avg. of all steps)

Actual salaries

Inflation, reference period

Main employment

€

2028 round

Next round
around October 2027
2027 agreement
agreed on 24 October 2025 · applies from 1 January 2027
Minimum salaries+2.00%
Actual salaries+1.80%

Your grade in the agreement

Wage group technicians	per month
Minimum 2026	€4,160.28
per year	€58,243.92
Minimum 2027	€4,243.49
Your gross	€4,227.00
Above the minimum	+€66.72 (+1.60%)
Above the minimum 2027	+€59.51 (+1.40%)

Wage group technicians	per month
Minimum 2026	€4,160.28
per year	€58,243.92
Minimum 2027	€4,243.49
Your gross	€4,227.00
Above the minimum	+€66.72 (+1.60%)
Above the minimum 2027	+€59.51 (+1.40%)

What the Metallgewerbe-KV covers

The Metallgewerbe-KV (Kollektivvertrag für Arbeiter im eisen- und metallverarbeitenden Gewerbe) covers manual workers in the metal trades. It is negotiated between WKÖ: Verhandlungsgemeinschaft Metallgewerbe (Bundesinnungen der Metalltechniker, Mechatroniker, Fahrzeugtechnik, Sanitär-, Heizungs- und Lüftungstechniker, Elektrotechniker u. a.) and Gewerkschaft PRO-GE. It sets a minimum salary for 8 groups, currently from €2,572 to €4,160 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 October; 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 usually has two figures: the minimum raise for the salary table and the actual raise for the salary you really get, also with an over-payment.

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 actual salaries under the Metallgewerbe-KV rose by 42.19%, prices over the reference periods by 41.08%.

Actual salaries

Inflation, reference period

Metallgewerbe-KV: pay and prices since 2017. How much salaries have risen in total since 2017 (each actual raise on top of the last, +42.19% so far), against inflation over the reference periods (+41.08%). Where the solid line is on top, salaries gained purchasing power.

Minimum salaries, blue-collar, from 1 January 2026

Group

per month

Wage group technicians

€4,160.28

Wage group 1: top skilled workers

€3,808.83

Wage group 2: qualified skilled workers

€3,397.52

Wage group 3: skilled workers

€2,948.85

Wage group 4: highly qualified workers

€2,759.39

Wage group 5: qualified workers

€2,627.28

Wage group 6: workers with job-specific training

€2,571.94

Wage group 7: workers without job-specific training

€2,571.94

Wage table: one monthly minimum base wage per wage group (technicians, 1 to 7), gross, full-time (38.5 hours), nationwide, with no seniority steps. Groups 6 and 7 have had the same amount since 2017. Allowances (dirt, hardship, night, shift, assembly), travel allowances and apprentice pay are not included.

Agreements since 2017

Year

From

Minimum salaries

Actual salaries

Inflation in period

2027

1 January 2027

+2.00%

+1.80%

3.26%

2026

1 January 2026

+2.20%

+1.80%, at most €85

3.01%

2025

1 January 2025

+3.80%

+4.30%

3.82%

2024

1 January 2024

+8.50%

+8.20%

9.17%

2023

1 January 2023

+8.00%

+7.10%

6.90%

2022

1 January 2022

+3.45%

+3.00%

2.06%

2021

1 January 2021

+1.45%

1.46%

2020

1 January 2020

+2.50% to 3.11%

+2.50%

1.71%

2019

1 January 2019

+3.30%

2.02%

2018

1 January 2018

+3.00%

+2.60%

1.88%

2017

1 January 2017

+1.43%

+1.33%, at least €30

0.75%

Related agreements

Branch

2026

Inflation

2027

History

Metaller-KV

+1.90% (2027)

3.26%

≈ +2.10% (2028)forecast

Metallgewerbe-KV salaried

+1.80%

3.01%

+1.80%agreed

Elektro-KV

+1.85%

3.33%

≈ +2.70%forecast

Gewerbe-KV

+2.70%

3.19%

≈ +3.20%forecast

Gastro-KV

+3.03%

3.52%

≈ +3.50%forecast

Frequently asked questions

Agreed: minimum salaries +2.00%, actual salaries +1.80%, from 1 January 2027.

Under the salary table from 1 January 2026, between €2,571.94 (Wage group 6: workers with job-specific training, per month) and €4,160.28 (Wage group technicians, per 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 October; 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 actual raise applies to the salary really paid, even above the minimum. Where it is lower than the minimum raise, the over-payment shrinks; your salary may never fall below the new minimum.

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 2027 actual salaries rose by 42.19% in total, inflation over the reference periods by 41.08%. In 6 of 10 years the raise matched or beat inflation. Over the whole period the rounds kept up with inflation.

Table, 2026–2027 · WKO: Information zum KV-Abschluss für Arbeiter/innen im Metallgewerbe 2026 (Wien, am 24.10.2025; Lohntabellen ab 1.1.2026 und 1.1.2027)
2025 · WKO: Information zum KV-Abschluss für Arbeiter:innen im Metallgewerbe 2025 (mit Lohntabelle ab 1.1.2025)
2024 · WKO: Information zum KV-Abschluss für Arbeiter/innen im Metallgewerbe 2024 (mit Lohntabelle ab 1.1.2024 und Lohnabschluss 1.1.2025)
2023 · WKO: Information zum KV-Abschluss für Arbeiter/innen im Metallgewerbe 2023 (mit Lohntabelle ab 1.1.2023)
2022 · WKO: Information zum KV-Abschluss für Arbeiter/innen im Metallgewerbe 2022 (mit Lohntabelle ab 1.1.2022)
2021 · WKO: Information zum KV-Abschluss für Arbeiter/innen im Metallgewerbe 2021 (mit Lohntabelle ab 1.1.2021)
2020 · WKO: Information zum KV-Abschluss für Arbeiter/innen im Metallgewerbe 2020 (mit Lohntabelle ab 1.1.2020)
2019 · WKO: Information zum KV-Abschluss für Arbeiter/innen im Metallgewerbe 2019
2017–2018 · WKO Bundesinnung Metalltechniker: Kollektivvertragsabschlüsse für Arbeiter:innen im Metallgewerbe (Erhöhung KV und IST in %, 1965–2026)