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Convert hourly, weekly, monthly and annual gross pay over your actual working hours. Check an offer against the construction Sectoral Employment Order minima and official CSO sector earnings.

Try an example:
1. Offer and working hours
2. Weekly overtime (optional)

Under the construction order, weekday finish-to-midnight and the first four Saturday hours are time and a half (1.5x). Later hours and Sundays are double time (2x).

3. Official benchmarks to compare

Gross pay breakdown

39.0 paid hours / week
Basic hourly rate EUR 23.74
Weekly gross (total) EUR 925.86
Annual gross (total) EUR 48,144.72
Gross pay conversion over 39.0 normal hours a week and 52 paid weeks
Period Basic gross pay Total with overtime
Per paid hour EUR 23.74 EUR 23.74
Per week EUR 925.86 EUR 925.86
Per month (1/12 of year) EUR 4,012.06 EUR 4,012.06
Per year (52 weeks) EUR 48,144.72 EUR 48,144.72

At 39.0 hours a week, EUR 48,144.72 a year equals EUR 23.74 per paid hour. If the same annual salary required 45 hours a week, the hourly rate would drop to EUR 20.57.

Construction SEO pay floor check

Matches statutory minimum

Your basic hourly rate of EUR 23.74 matches the WRC statutory minimum of EUR 23.74 per hour for a covered Craftsperson (effective 1 August 2026).

Mandatory pension and sick-pay contributions (covered adult workers)

Under S.I. No. 620 of 2024, a covered employer contributes EUR 32.89 a week to the Construction Workers' Pension Scheme and EUR 2.37 a week to sick pay (EUR 35.26 / week on top of gross pay). The employee contribution is EUR 21.95 (pension) plus EUR 0.63 (sick pay) = EUR 22.58 a week, leaving EUR 903.28 a week before income tax, PRSI and USC.

Source: Workplace Relations Commission and S.I. No. 620 of 2024 (PDF). Electricians and plumbers are not among the WRC's craftsperson examples; check which agreement sets your rate.

CSO sector average comparison

CSO EHQ53 · 2026Q2

Compared with the CSO unadjusted mean across all employees in Construction (EUR 29.88 / hour, EUR 1,089.21 / week over 36.5 paid hours), this basic hourly rate is EUR 6.14 (20.5%) lower.

Basic hourly pay -EUR 6.14 / hr (-20.5%)
Your offer
EUR 23.74
CSO Construction
EUR 29.88
Weekly gross pay (including overtime) -EUR 163.35 / wk (-15.0%)
Your offer (39.0h)
EUR 925.86
CSO mean (36.5h)
EUR 1,089.21

Source: Central Statistics Office, EHQ53 (2026Q2 preliminary, updated 2026-08-25). Sector means cover all employees and grades, including managers and senior staff, and are not occupation-specific rates.

How to use these figures when reviewing an offer.

Start with the legal minimum or sectoral agreement that covers your job, then check the working hours attached to the offer. An annual salary that looks competitive on paper can work out below a sectoral hourly minimum once unpaid overtime or a 45-hour week is included.

All figures in this tool are gross pay before income tax (PAYE), Universal Social Charge (USC) and PRSI. Because take-home pay depends on your personal tax credits, marital status and rate bands, check your net deductions with Revenue's official tax guidance.

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