Highest salary cities in Germany

Stuttgart, Germany has the highest median gross salary of the 30 cities compared: 5,128 EUR/month (Sozialversicherungspflichtige Bruttoarbeitsentgelte – Deutschland, West/Ost, Länder und Kreise (Jahreszahlen), Stichtag 31.12.2025, 2025-12-31).

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Germany cities ranked by the city-level median gross monthly salary, with each observation period and source retained.

Items compared: 30
Countries represented: 1
Last checked: 2026-09-24

Source-backed answers

Compare each answer with its unit and checked date; the complete source ledger is below.

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Original rank	City or place	Published value		Source and scope
1	Stuttgart, Germany	5,128 EUR/month	2026-09-24	Source Scope: city · Period: 2025-12-31
2	Frankfurt am Main, Germany	5,074 EUR/month	2026-09-24	Source Scope: city · Period: 2025-12-31
3	Dusseldorf, Germany	4,933 EUR/month	2026-09-24	Source Scope: city · Period: 2025-12-31
4	Mainz, Germany	4,891 EUR/month	2026-09-24	Source Scope: city · Period: 2025-12-31
5	Munich, Germany	4,800 EUR/month	2026-06-04	Source Scope: city · Period: 2026-01-01
6	Bonn, Germany	4,798 EUR/month	2026-09-24	Source Scope: city · Period: 2025-12-31
7	Karlsruhe, Germany	4,793 EUR/month	2026-09-24	Source Scope: city · Period: 2025-12-31
8	Braunschweig, Germany	4,755 EUR/month	2026-09-24	Source Scope: city · Period: 2025-12-31
9	Cologne, Germany	4,654 EUR/month	2026-09-24	Source Scope: city · Period: 2025-12-31
10	Mannheim, Germany	4,581 EUR/month	2026-09-24	Source Scope: city · Period: 2025-12-31
11	Wiesbaden, Germany	4,580 EUR/month	2026-09-24	Source Scope: city · Period: 2025-12-31
12	Muenster, Germany	4,500 EUR/month	2026-09-24	Source Scope: city · Period: 2025-12-31
13	Fuerth, Germany	4,487 EUR/month	2026-09-24	Source Scope: city · Period: 2025-12-31
14	Essen, Germany	4,387 EUR/month	2026-09-24	Source Scope: city · Period: 2025-12-31
15	Bochum, Germany	4,360 EUR/month	2026-09-24	Source Scope: city · Period: 2025-12-31
16	Hamburg, Germany	4,300 EUR/month	2026-06-04	Source Scope: city · Period: 2026-01-01
17	Berlin, Germany	4,250 EUR/month	2026-06-04	Source Scope: city · Period: 2026-01-01
18	Nuremberg, Germany	4,241 EUR/month	2026-09-24	Source Scope: city · Period: 2025-12-31
19	Dortmund, Germany	4,197 EUR/month	2026-09-24	Source Scope: city · Period: 2025-12-31
20	Augsburg, Germany	4,183 EUR/month	2026-09-24	Source Scope: city · Period: 2025-12-31
21	Oberhausen, Germany	4,171 EUR/month	2026-09-24	Source Scope: city · Period: 2025-12-31
22	Kassel, Germany	4,167 EUR/month	2026-09-24	Source Scope: city · Period: 2025-12-31
23	Dresden, Germany	4,163 EUR/month	2026-09-24	Source Scope: city · Period: 2025-12-31
24	Kiel, Germany	4,161 EUR/month	2026-09-24	Source Scope: city · Period: 2025-12-31
25	Bielefeld, Germany	4,156 EUR/month	2026-09-24	Source Scope: city · Period: 2025-12-31
26	Duisburg, Germany	4,151 EUR/month	2026-09-24	Source Scope: city · Period: 2025-12-31
27	Krefeld, Germany	4,137 EUR/month	2026-09-24	Source Scope: city · Period: 2025-12-31
28	Wuppertal, Germany	4,104 EUR/month	2026-09-24	Source Scope: city · Period: 2025-12-31
29	Bremen, Germany	4,082 EUR/month	2026-09-24	Source Scope: city · Period: 2025-12-31
30	Luebeck, Germany	4,034 EUR/month	2026-09-24	Source Scope: city · Period: 2025-12-31

What the numbers say

Stuttgart, Germany leads at 5,128 EUR/month.
Luebeck, Germany sits at the other end with 4,034 EUR/month.
The middle of this ranking is 4,360 EUR/month, across 30 places that publish the metric.
The spread between first and last is 1,094 EUR/month.

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How this list is built

Every row is a published median gross salary observation measured in EUR/month, ranked highest first. The values were observed between 2025 and 2026. A place appears only when it publishes this exact metric, so an absent place means missing data rather than a low value. Only published cities with at least 20,000 residents and city-level observations qualify.

Compare the displayed value, unit, source date and geographic grain together.
A city label does not change a regional observation into a city measurement.

Rows: 30 places
Geographic grain: city
Observation period: 2025-12-31 to 2026-01-01
Last checked: 2026-09-24
With an official source link: 30 of 30

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Sozialversicherungspflichtige Bruttoarbeitsentgelte – Deutschland, West/Ost, Länder und Kreise (Jahreszahlen), Stichtag 31.12.2025Statistik der Bundesagentur für Arbeit · Checked 2026-09-24
Bundesagentur fuer Arbeit Entgeltatlasweb.arbeitsagentur.de · Checked 2026-06-04