La pensión media del sistema de la Seguridad Social alcanza los 1.367,4 euros en marzo, un 4,5% más alta que hace un año

The Social Security has paid 10,463,537 pensions to about 9.5 million people in the payroll of March, which amounts to 14,307.7 million euros.

This month, 6.7 million retirement pensions and 2.3 million widow's pensions of the Social Security System were recorded, in addition to more than one million permanent disability pensions, more than 335,000 orphans and 46,700 in favor of relatives.

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The average pension of the same month is 364.5%. 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 (6.7 million people), is 1,568.5 euros per month, 4.4% more than in March 2025.

By system, the amount of the average retirement pension from the General System is 1,728.7 euros per month, while in the Special System for Self-Employed Persons it is 1,057.6 euros. In Coal Mining, the average pension amount is 2,997.6 euros, and 1,733.4 euros in the Regime of the Sea. The monthly amount of new retirement payments in the system amounted to 1,726.3 euros on average, according to the latest available data, which are from February.

In terms of the average widow's pension, in March it reached 973.4 euros per month.

Payroll and pensions by class

Of the monthly payroll of contributory social security pensions (14,307.7 million euros), three quarters correspond to retirement pensions. Specifically, these pensions account for 73.2% of the payroll, 10,474.4 million euros. A total of 2,280.4 million euros have been allocated to widows’ pensions, while the payroll for permanent disability benefits amounts to 1,329.8 million; that of orphanhood, to 184.7 million euros and that of benefits for family members, to 38.3 million.

Delayed retirements are growing

In the first two months of 2026, 68,497 new retirements were registered, almost 13% were voluntary delayed retirements (12.8%), which means almost two percentage points more than in 2019. In absolute figures, they are around 43,000 high, a figure that contrasts with the barely 14,000 in 2019.

Highlights the number of retirees who have benefited from active retirement, the new improved modality of compatibility between work and pension that came into force in April last year, which already amounts to almost 13,000.

As a result of the voluntary delay of the time of retirement and the lower anticipation, the average age of access to retirement is 65.2 years, when in 2019 it was 64.4. It should be remembered that in 2022 new incentives for late access to retirement came into force and the legal framework for early retirement was reconfigured.

In addition, 62.8% of new retirees acceded with ordinary age (42,992).

The average time of resolution of the files in February (last data available) was 18.84 days in the case of retirement pension. 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 the retirement benefit.

With supplement for the reduction of the gender gap

In March, 1,413,697 pensions have the supplement for the reduction of the gender gap, of which 76.4% of their holders are women (1,079,933). The average monthly amount of this pension supplement is 76.95 euros. Of the total supplemented pensions, 24.1% correspond to pensioners with one child (340,781); 49.7% to beneficiaries with two children (702,424); about 17.8% receive it with three children (251,066) and, for four children, 8.4% (119,424).

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 payroll of Passive Classes pensions amounted to 1,765.4 million euros in the month of February (last data available). This figure represents an increase of 98 million euros compared to the previous year, 5.9% more.

The number of pensions in force was 738,008, which is 14,276 pensions more than in the same month of the previous year (2% annual variation). This type of pension is received by 718.105 pensioners.

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

The complete information of the contributory pensions of the Social Security System can be consulted in the attached file.

Also, the application eSTADISS, located in