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21.11.2025 News

The employee pension contribution is being standardised

In 2026, earnings-related pension contributions will change: in the future, all employees will pay the same amount in pension contribution, regardless of age.

20.11.2025 Press releases

Wages on the rise – young people face increasing barriers to entering the labour market

In 2024, employees’ median monthly earnings were 3,208 euros, an increase of 3.3 per cent from 2023. Despite this positive development in earnings, concerns remain over the difficulties young people are facing when trying to access the labour market. According to earnings statistics of the Finnish Centre for Pensions, the number of new employees covered by earnings-reated pension insurance has decreased around 10 per cent annually.

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15.8.2025 Arie Riekhoff

Addressing financial hardship throughout the life course can improve pension adequacy

Our latest study shows that experiencing financial problems during the early and mid-life course does not necessarily bear negative consequences for one’s pension income in old age. However, a better understanding of the connections between economic wellbeing in earlier and later life helps in shaping better policies for ageing societies.

8.5.2025 Monika Sievänen

Who is considered an employee and who is self-employed?

Many people are unclear about how employment should be insured. The situation is clear from the point of view of earnings-related pension law: people who carry out work for pay are insured either as employees or as self-employed.

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Findings from our research

Are you looking for information on pensioners’ income or the development of Finnish working careers? Get the key information from the section Findings from our research on our website

Reforming earnings-related pensions

The final report of the tripartite working group was published on 31 January 2025. The Ministry of Social Affairs and Health has begun the legislative drafting process. We have compiled data on the themes relating to the pension reform. The website 2025 Pension reform contains information on, for example, the pension reform working groups.

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21.11.2025 News

On pensions elsewhere

3.12.2025 Telp.fi

For a well functioning pension system

My pension

Current issues

The employee pension contribution is being standardised

Wages on the rise – young people face increasing barriers to entering the labour market

Blogs

Addressing financial hardship throughout the life course can improve pension adequacy

Who is considered an employee and who is self-employed?

Themes

Findings from our research

Reforming earnings-related pensions

News and press releases

The employee pension contribution is being standardised

Wages on the rise – young people face increasing barriers to entering the labour market

Confirmed life expectancy set to cut new pensions for those born in 1964 by 5.4 per cent in 2026

Webinar ETK Pension Research Forum on 16 March 2026 – Open call for presentations

International pension comparison: Finnish pension system ranks eighth – tops the integrity sub-index

On pensions elsewhere

Työttömyyskassafuusio aiheuttaa palkattomien etuuksien ilmoitusliikennekatkon vuodenvaihteessa

Arkistolainsäädäntöä ajantasaistetaan ja selkeytetään

Osakemarkkinoiden hyvä vire kasvatti eläkevaroja – rahastoissa 279 miljardia

STM: Vuonna 1964 syntyneiden työeläkkeet heikkenevät elinajan pitenemisen takia 5,4 prosenttia

Elinaikakerroin vahvistettu vuodelle 2026

Finnish Centre for Pensions – Central body of and expert on statutory earnings-related pensions