Average salary in Turkey: TRY 30,000 a month (ILOSTAT, 2025)
Median monthly earnings of employees in Turkey: TRY 30,000 a month (2025, ILOSTAT). By occupation, managers earn the most and elementary occupations the least.
The OECD puts the average annual wage for a full-time equivalent employee in Turkey at TRY 742,961 in 2024 (OECD Average annual wages (OECD Earnings database), 2024). That is total wage bill divided by full-time equivalent jobs, so it is pulled up by high earners and is not what a typical worker takes home.
ILOSTAT reports median monthly earnings of employees of TRY 30,000 a month for 2025 (ILOSTAT EAR_EMTM_SEX_OCU_NB (LFS - Household Labour Force Survey), 2025). A median is the midpoint: half of employees earn less.
The occupation split (ILOSTAT EAR_EMTM_SEX_OCU_NB, 2025) runs from TRY 60,000 a month for managers to TRY 23,000 for elementary occupations. These are broad ISCO-08 groups, not individual job titles.
Turkey shows about 34.9% CPI in 2025 (World Bank Open Data), with GDP per capita about US$18,599. We do not yet publish role-level medians for Turkey, so there are no per-job pages here.
What we can say about pay in Turkey today
Treat TRY 30,000 a month as a national reference point, not an offer benchmark. Official averages blend every sector, age, and hours pattern. Compare a real offer with the occupation group that matches it, then run the take-home and cost of living calculators.