Layoffs of low-paid staff skew common pay larger

In response to preliminary estimates by the Central Bureau of Statistics, the common month-to-month gross wage of Israeli staff in April this yr was 4% larger than in April 2025, at NIS 14,409. This represents a decline compared with the common wage in March this yr, when warfare with Iran broke out, which was NIS 15,921, 8.8% larger than in March 2025.

The rationale for the year-on-year rise is just not essentially a considerable rise in pay, however reasonably layoffs of low-paid staff due to restrictions imposed by the Dwelling Entrance Command, a phenomenon seen much more strongly throughout the Covid pandemic. In actual fact the variety of jobs within the economic system shrank by 1.6% in April. In March, when the warfare was at its top, the variety of jobs fell by 7.5% compared with March 2025. Even compared with the start of the yr there was a dramatic decline within the variety of jobs, from almost 4.2 million in January to three.8 million in March.

The know-how trade was a lot much less affected by the warfare than different sectors, and the excessive pay in that sector is a part of the rationale that the economy-wide common was skewed upwards, as know-how staff remained of their jobs whereas others had been laid off or placed on unpaid go away. The common wage within the know-how sector was NIS 38,467, 4.3% larger than in March 2025.

The variety of jobs within the know-how sector was unchanged year-on-year, which meant that for the primary time for a very long time it surpassed 10% of all jobs, reaching 10.4%.

Printed by Globes, Israel enterprise information – en.globes.co.il – on June 4, 2026.