La pensión media del sistema de la Seguridad Social alcanza los 1.374,6 euros en septiembre, un 4,6% más alta que hace un año

Social Security has paid 10,547,417 pensions to more than 9.5 million people on the September payroll, which amounts to 14,498.2 million euros this month.

In September, almost 6.8 million retirement pensions and more than 2.3 million widow’s pensions from the Social Security System, 1.1 million permanent disability pensions, 335,900 orphans and 46,985 family pensions were registered.

Average pensions

The average pension of the Social Security system is 1,374.6 euros this month, 4.6% more than in the same month of the previous year. This average includes the amount of the different types of pension (retirement, permanent disability, widowhood, orphanhood and in favour of family members). The average retirement pension, which receives more than two-thirds of the total number of pensioners, is 1,576.1 euros per month, 4.5% more than in September 2025.

By system, the average retirement pension of the General System is 1,734.7 euros per month, while in the Special System of Self-Employed Persons it is 1,062.8 euros. In Coal Mining, the average pension amount is 3,005.7 euros, and 1,741.2 euros in the Regime of the Sea. The monthly amount of new retirement increases in the system amounted to 1,711.4 euros on average, according to the latest available data, which are from August.

As for the average widow’s pension, in July it reached 976.3 euros per month.

Payroll and pensions by class

Of the monthly payroll of contributory social security pensions (14,498.2 million euros), three-quarters correspond to retirement pensions. Specifically, these pensions account for 73.5% of the payroll, 10,654.6 million euros. A total of Euro2,288.4 million has been earmarked for widows ' pensions, while the payroll for permanent disability benefits amounts to Euro1,330.9 million; the payroll for orphans amounts to Euro185.5 million; and the payroll for family benefits amounts to Euro38.8 million.

Delayed retirements grow

As of August 2026, 247,161 new retirements have been registered in retirement pensions, of which 11.6% were voluntary delayed retirements, 6.8 percentage points higher than those registered in 2019.

As a result of the voluntary delay in the time of retirement and the lower anticipation, the average age of access to retirement is 65.4 years, when in 2019 it was 64.4. It should be remembered that in 2022 new incentives for delayed access to retirement came into force and the legal framework for early retirement was reconfigured.

In addition, 68.9% of new retirees acceded with ordinary age (170,211).

The average settlement time for the files in August (last available) was 8.53 days for the retirement pension and 9.68 days for widows’ pensions. It must be taken into account that the maximum period of resolution in these procedures, according to RD 286/2003 of March 7 and RD 1192/2021, of August 3, is 90 days in both retirement and widow’s benefits.

With complement for the reduction of the gender gap

In September, 1.7 million pensions have the complement to reduce the gender gap, specifically 1,693,659, of which 69.8% of their holders are women (1,181,434). The average monthly amount of this pension supplement is 76.7 euros. Of the total number of supplementary pensions, 23.6% are pensioners with one child (399,086); 50.9% are beneficiaries with two children (862,404); 17.5% are beneficiaries with three children (296,416) and, with four or more children, 8% (135,732).

This supplement, in force since February 2021, consists of a fixed amount of 36.9 euros per month per child, after the revaluation applied in 2026.

The application must be made at the time when the pension is requested.

Passive Classes

On the other hand, the monthly pension payroll of Passive Classes amounted to 1,774.1 million euros in the month of August (last data available). This figure represents an increase of 99.2 million euros compared to the previous year, 5.9% more.

The number of pensions in force was 740,431, which is 14,800 more pensions than in the same month of the previous year (2% annual variation). This type of pension is received by 720,276 pensioners.

The State Passive Class System primarily includes military and civilian personnel of the General Administration of the State, the Administration of Justice, the General Courts and other constitutional or State bodies, as well as officials transferred to the autonomous communities.

Full information on contributory pensions in the Social Security System can be found in the attached file.

Likewise, the eSTADISS application, located in http://run.gob.es/estadiss, allows to obtain statistical information on Social Security pensions, with selection of the parameters that are of interest and possibility to export the results in different formats.

For more statistical information on Passive Class pensions: https://www.portalclasespasivas.gob.es/