Pension increase 2027: what your pension is really worth
Your pension increase 2027
One ASVG pension, single, no children, Vienna
+ €64.87 (2.95 %)
+ €51.85 a month, + €736.85 a year incl. 13th and 14th
Has the pension kept up with prices?
all increases since 2016: + 43.7 %
consumer price index (forecast)
net €26,013 a year in 2027 against €26,443 (€18,212 of 2016 in 2027 euros)
Nominal against real
Net pension per yearThe same net pension twice: as paid in each year, and restated in 2027 euros. The pension rose each year by the statutory adjustment, for a pension already running in 2016; one-off payments such as those of 2022 and 2023 (§§ 772a, 776 ASVG) count in the year they were paid, the taxable ones up to 2009 after wage tax. Where the dashed line sits above the 2016 purchasing power, the pension buys more today than it did then. From 2026 the price index is not yet final (provisional or forecast).
Pension increase and inflation, year by year
Increase: what the previous year's middle pension (Statistik Austria) gained under that year's tiers; in many years small pensions got more and large ones less. Inflation: the previous year's consumer price index, i.e. the rise in prices the increase is meant to offset. All tiers under Pensionsanpassung.
Pension increase 2027: what is left net
On 1 January 2027 pensions rise by 2.95 % up to €6,930, + €204.44 above €6,930. Anyone who retired in 2026 gets 50 % of it. The increase arrives with the January pension and is therefore also in the 13th and 14th pension. The single-person reference rate of the Ausgleichszulage rises from €1,308.39 to €1,351.57 (provisional).
One ASVG pension, single, no children. Net 2026 and 2027 each under that year's tax and contribution rules; the 2027 tax brackets are indexed to inflation, so the net partly rises faster than the gross. Every pension level is in the pension gross-net table.
Average pension in Austria
Median gross per monthIn 2024 the middle pension (median) in Austria was €2,047 gross a month, €1,810 net. The average was higher at €2,321, because a few high pensions pull it up. Women received a median of €1,645, men €2,571, i.e. 36 % less. Statistik Austria publishes a year about twelve months after it ends.
Pensions by year: median, average, women and men
Annual income of pensioners resident in Austria ÷ 14, i.e. per month including the 13th and 14th pension. Per person, several pensions added together, all pension types including survivors' and civil-service pensions and people who drew a pension for only part of the year. Median: half get less, half get more. Average: the arithmetic mean, pulled up by high pensions. Net: after health insurance and wage tax, before the annual tax assessment.
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Sources: §§ 108, 108h ASVG and each year's adjustment provisions (RIS) with the notices in BGBl II; Pensionsversicherungsanstalt and Ministry of Social Affairs for the 2027 adjustment; Statistik Austria, gross and net annual income of pensioners 1997 to 2024; consumer price index (Statistik Austria, base 2020 = 100, WIFO forecast for years without an annual figure); § 33 and § 67 EStG 1988 and § 73 ASVG for the net pension, computed with the same engine as the pension calculator.