The average contributory pension in Spain is 1,305 euros in January, so that it exceeds for the first time the border of 1,300 euros per month distributed in 14 payments. The most common type of pension, retirement, is about to break another record, when it is at 1,498 euros. These accelerons are recorded in the first payroll of 2025, to which the general revaluation issued by the Government and that was not validated in Congress for the rejection of PP, Vox and Juns to the Omnibus decree, which also included aid to aid to the aids to the transport or extension of the minimum wage, among other measures. The Executive wants to move forward, without chopping it, as the opposition demands. If there are no news before the next payment, pensioners will receive the amount again.
According to the data distributed on Tuesday by Social Security, the average contributory pension has grown 4.5%: goes from 1,249 euros in January 2024 to 1,305 in the same month of 2025. It is an advance higher than the revaluation of the 2 , 8% (figured by inflation of the previous year) for several reasons: not all pensions have grown at that rate, since the minimums have accelerated between 6% and 9%. In addition, this figure is also conditioned by what the new highs have contributed throughout their working life and what the deceased perceived. The usual thing is that the first enter the system with amounts superior to those of the seconds, which further elevates the average pension.
The average retirement pension already amounts to 1,498 euros, 4.4% more than in January last year, which represents a jump of more than 60 euros. The average widowhood pension (from 892 to 932 euros), orfandad (501 to 524) and favor of family members (737 to 778).
The number of pensioners also continues to grow, which is already located at 9,316,509 people, who receive 10,294,786 of pensions, 1.6% more than the previous year. The number is superior because some people receive more than one pension. The most common type of pension is retirement, with 6,558,073 payrolls in January, 100,000 more than a year earlier.
The revaluation and the increase in the number of receptors, among other reasons, raise system spending to a record of 13,432 million euros. It is 6.2% more than in January 2024. Most of the expense, 9,823 million, is dedicated to retirement pensions, a disbursement that has grown at almost 600 million euros in the last year.
More delayed retirements
In the press release in which it analyzes the data, the department led by Elma Saiz highlights the contraction of early retreats: “The anticipated retirement figure has been reduced considerably and is below 30% of the total. There are 108,968, which represents a 10.4% decrease in early retirement compared to 2019 when 40% of new retirements were anticipated. 70.4% accessed ordinary age. ” Throughout 2024 there were 368,065 new highs in retirement pensions.
The Government, which claims the incentives to the retirement delay that approved in 2022, also emphasizes that in 2024 9.3% of the highs corresponded to the retirement modality delayed compared to 4.8% of 2019. “There are 34,273 High of this type, while in 2019 they barely exceed 14,000. As a result of the voluntary delay of the moment of retirement and the lower advance, the average age of access to retirement is 65.2 years, when in 2019 it was 64.4 ″, add social security.
