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Statistics on Disability in the Labour Market. EPD (Year 2024), WPD (Year 2023), and SWLPD (Year 2023) 12 December 2025

The labour force participation rate of people with disabilities (16-64 years old) fell by 0.1 points in 2024 to 35.4%. The employment rate rose 0.4 points to 28.9%, while the unemployment rate fell 1.2 points to stand at 18.5%. The average gross annual salary of workers with disabilities reached 23,159.7 euros in 2023, 5.1% higher than 2022. This figure represented 82.1% of the average salary of workers without disabilities (28,207.8 euros).

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Wages of Persons with Disabilities - Year 2023
Indicator Note Value Wage ratio
Total 23,159.7 82.1
Males 23,853.3 77.9
Females 22,191.5 86.4
  • Value: euros. Wage ratio: percentage as compared to the wage of persons without disabilities
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Year 2023 Published: 12/12/2025
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The Wage of persons with disabilities is an operation whose purpose is knowing the wage distribution of employees with a officially recognized disability, and it does so by comparing it with employees without any disability.

The statistical operation is the result of a collaboration agreement among the INE and the IMSERSO, the Directorate General for the Coordination of Sectoral Policy for Persons with Disabilities, the Spanish Committee for Persons with Disabilities (CERMI) and the ONCE Foundation. For its realisation, the information from the integration of data from the Wage Structure Survey with the administrative data from the General Treasury of the Social Security on the promotion of employment, from the Registro de Prestaciones Sociales Públicas del Instituto Nacional de Seguridad Social and data registered on the State Database of Persons with Disabilities (BEPD), which provides information on the characteristics of citizens with an officially recognised disability.