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
- •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
Regional Comparison
Average values by world region (Global avg: 1,460.82021 PPP dollars per month)
Percentile Profile
The curve shows how values change from the lowest to the highest country. Steep sections reveal inequality or outliers.
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 ↕ |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States of America | 4,480.72021 PPP dollars per month |
| 2 | Switzerland | 4,135.22021 PPP dollars per month |
| 3 | Canada | 3,987.92021 PPP dollars per month |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 2,594.82021 PPP dollars per month |
| 5 | Portugal | 1,827.02021 PPP dollars per month |
| 6 | Türkiye | 1,690.72021 PPP dollars per month |
| 7 | Mongolia | 1,524.52021 PPP dollars per month |
| 8 | Costa Rica | 1,430.72021 PPP dollars per month |
| 9 | Panama | 1,409.32021 PPP dollars per month |
| 10 | Thailand | 1,225.72021 PPP dollars per month |
| 11 | Argentina | 1,209.82021 PPP dollars per month |
| 12 | Bhutan | 1,187.52021 PPP dollars per month |
| 13 | Ecuador | 1,064.52021 PPP dollars per month |
| 14 | Bolivia | 1,037.32021 PPP dollars per month |
| 15 | Dominican Republic | 1,007.52021 PPP dollars per month |
| 16 | Paraguay | 981.32021 PPP dollars per month |
| 17 | El Salvador | 924.32021 PPP dollars per month |
| 18 | Colombia | 900.62021 PPP dollars per month |
| 19 | Brazil | 852.22021 PPP dollars per month |
| 20 | Moldova, Republic of | 820.72021 PPP dollars per month |
| 21 | Peru | 788.82021 PPP dollars per month |
| 22 | Mexico | 775.02021 PPP dollars per month |
| 23 | India | 756.12021 PPP dollars per month |
| 24 | Honduras | 713.32021 PPP dollars per month |
| 25 | Pakistan | 397.32021 PPP dollars per month |
| 26 | Burkina Faso | 258.92021 PPP dollars per month |
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Data Source
This data comes from International Labour Organization (ILO) (2025).
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