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Median monthly employee earnings at 2021 purchasing power parity

Compare median monthly employee earnings at 2021 purchasing power parity across 26 countries or territories using one fixed 2025 ILOSTAT reference slice.

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Key Insights

Global Average
1,460.82021 PPP dollars per month
Median: 1,050.92021 PPP dollars per month
Countries Covered
26
with available data
Highest
United States of America
4,480.72021 PPP dollars per month
Lowest
Burkina Faso
258.92021 PPP dollars per month
Top 5 Countries
1United States of America4,480.72021 PPP dollars per month
2Switzerland4,135.22021 PPP dollars per month
3Canada3,987.92021 PPP dollars per month
4United Kingdom2,594.82021 PPP dollars per month
5Portugal1,827.02021 PPP dollars per month
By Region
North America3,081.22021 PPP dollars per month(3 countries)
Europe2,852.32021 PPP dollars per month(3 countries)
Other1,082.22021 PPP dollars per month(12 countries)
South America963.22021 PPP dollars per month(5 countries)
Asia793.02021 PPP dollars per month(3 countries)
Key Findings
  • 26 ISO-mapped countries or territories have a finite 2021 PPP dollars per month observation in the fixed 2025 slice.
  • United States of America has the highest published value (4480.67 2021 PPP dollars per month).
  • Burkina Faso has the lowest published value (258.923 2021 PPP dollars per month).

Country Rankings

Top 10 Countries

Bottom 10 Countries

Data Analysis

Value Distribution

How countries are distributed across the value range

Low (258.92021 PPP dollars per month)High (4,480.72021 PPP dollars per month)

Regional Comparison

Average values by world region (Global avg: 1,460.82021 PPP dollars per month)

North America (3)
Europe (3)
Other (12)
South America (5)
Asia (3)

Percentile Profile

The curve shows how values change from the lowest to the highest country. Steep sections reveal inequality or outliers.

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About This Statistic

With the aim of promoting international comparability, statistics presented on ILOSTAT are based on standard international definitions wherever feasible and may differ from official national figures. The earnings of employees relate to the gross remuneration in cash and in kind paid to employees, as a rule at regular intervals, for time worked or work done together with remuneration for time not worked, such as annual vacation, other type of paid leave or holidays. Earnings exclude employers' contributions in respect of their employees paid to social security and pension schemes and also the benefits received by employees under these schemes. Earnings also exclude severance and termination pay. The median is the middle value, with half of employees earning less and half earning more. Data are converted to U.S. dollars as the common currency, using exchange rates or using purchasing power parity (PPP) rates for private consumption expenditures. The latter series allows for international comparisons by taking account of the differences in relative prices between countries. For more information, refer to the Wages and Working Time Statistics (COND) database description .

MapTheory uses only finite ISO-mapped observations from the fixed 2025 ILOSTAT slice recorded below. Aggregates, missing values, non-ISO geographies, conflicting duplicate observations, and every other year or dimension slice are excluded; MapTheory never imputes or interpolates missing countries.

Methodology

With the aim of promoting international comparability, statistics presented on ILOSTAT are based on standard international definitions wherever feasible and may differ from official national figures. The earnings of employees relate to the gross remuneration in cash and in kind paid to employees, as a rule at regular intervals, for time worked or work done together with remuneration for time not worked, such as annual vacation, other type of paid leave or holidays. Earnings exclude employers' contributions in respect of their employees paid to social security and pension schemes and also the benefits received by employees under these schemes. Earnings also exclude severance and termination pay. The median is the middle value, with half of employees earning less and half earning more. Data are converted to U.S. dollars as the common currency, using exchange rates or using purchasing power parity (PPP) rates for private consumption expenditures. The latter series allows for international comparisons by taking account of the differences in relative prices between countries. For more information, refer to the Wages and Working Time Statistics (COND) database description .

Full Data

Rank Country Value
1United States of America4,480.72021 PPP dollars per month
2Switzerland4,135.22021 PPP dollars per month
3Canada3,987.92021 PPP dollars per month
4United Kingdom2,594.82021 PPP dollars per month
5Portugal1,827.02021 PPP dollars per month
6Türkiye1,690.72021 PPP dollars per month
7Mongolia1,524.52021 PPP dollars per month
8Costa Rica1,430.72021 PPP dollars per month
9Panama1,409.32021 PPP dollars per month
10Thailand1,225.72021 PPP dollars per month
11Argentina1,209.82021 PPP dollars per month
12Bhutan1,187.52021 PPP dollars per month
13Ecuador1,064.52021 PPP dollars per month
14Bolivia1,037.32021 PPP dollars per month
15Dominican Republic1,007.52021 PPP dollars per month
16Paraguay981.32021 PPP dollars per month
17El Salvador924.32021 PPP dollars per month
18Colombia900.62021 PPP dollars per month
19Brazil852.22021 PPP dollars per month
20Moldova, Republic of820.72021 PPP dollars per month
21Peru788.82021 PPP dollars per month
22Mexico775.02021 PPP dollars per month
23India756.12021 PPP dollars per month
24Honduras713.32021 PPP dollars per month
25Pakistan397.32021 PPP dollars per month
26Burkina Faso258.92021 PPP dollars per month
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Data Source

This data comes from International Labour Organization (ILO) (2025).

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