The Algarve is the region of the country that has the lowest average salary (1.054 euros) in the country. Between 2010 and 2020, the average salary increased, in real terms, by only €41. It is also where there is a smaller wage discrepancy between men and women (-96€).
According to brighter future platform from Fundação José Neves, workers between 45 and 54 years old receive the highest average salary (1.130€) and those in the age group between 15 and 24 years old have an average salary below 867€. Air traffic and electronic systems safety controllers (7.332€) are among the highest paying professions.
The sectors of electricity, gas, steam, water and air (2.092€) and financial and insurance activities (2040€) are among those that offer the best wages.
This is the region with the highest percentage of workers under 35 years old (32%) in the country – along with Área Metropolitana de Lisboa –, followed shortly by the Autonomous Region of the Azores.
Given the region's tourist attractiveness, the sector that generates the most jobs is, naturally, accommodation and catering (24%), as well as retail trade (15%).
Workers are mostly between 35 and 44 years old (27%), between 45 and 54 years old (24%) and between 25 and 34 years old (23%).
Between 2010 and 2020, the number of workers in the region grew by 13%, reaching 143. In 2019, in the pre-pandemic period, it was when the largest number of workers was registered in the region (158.616).
After Alentejo and the Autonomous Region of the Azores, the Algarve is the country's region with the lowest percentage of workers with higher education (16%). Most workers attended only basic education (49%) and secondary education (35%), around 14% have a degree.
Health, business sciences and engineering and related techniques are the most common training areas. The number of unemployed among recent graduates decreased by almost 4%, between 2014 (9,1%) and 2021 (5,4%).
All these data and many others can be consulted on the X-Ray of the Regions of the Brighter Future platform of the José Neves Foundation, available by clicking on this link.
The Brighter Future portal of the José Neves Foundation is the largest knowledge base on Education, Employability and Skills in Portugal, allowing you to compare and link information on around 4.500 courses and training courses, over 1800 professions and over 1800 relevant skills.
This tool provides quality information, which can support decision-making about educational and professional paths, based on facts.
It also offers Insights (aggregated and succinct information on the most relevant matters), Guides (documents to help in making conscious decisions, based on facts, which impact the educational, professional and/or personal development dimensions) and a Career Simulator (a tool that provides the necessary information for identifying and comparing possible career paths, as well as the requirements for taking that step).
FJN's partners in the Brighter Future portal are INE, DGES, the Universities of Minho and Aveiro, Microsoft, Outsystems and Contentful, among others.
A José Neves Foundation (FJN), non-profit institution, was founded by José Neves, entrepreneur and founder of Farfetch. It is focused on Education and the skills of the future and its mission is to help transform Portugal into a Knowledge Society and place the country at the forefront of human development.
To achieve its objectives, the José Neves Foundation invests in practical programs and tools (such as the brighter future platform: ISA FJN program and app 29k FJN) that allow any citizen to find solutions to continue learning throughout life and to promote personal development.
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