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Am I middle class in Chile?

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Data: INE Chile · Encuesta Suplementaria de Ingresos (ESI) 2025: Síntesis de principales resultados + Resultados ESI 2025, distribución por tramos de ingreso (annualised by ×12) · income year 2025, survey wave 2025

Income distribution in Chile

Each bar is a slice of Chile workers. The cyan marker shows where you sit; the flags below mark the median and the 75% and 200% band edges.

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5k100k400k1M2M3M5M7.5M10M15M20M30M50MMedianCLP 8.160.00075% of medianCLP 6.120.0002× medianCLP 16.320.000
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Middle class in Chile: CLP 6.120.000 to CLP 16.320.000 a year.
That's 75% to 200% of the median of CLP 8.160.000, the OECD's definition.
About 54% of workers in Chile sit inside the band.
Estimated from the same published income distribution this page runs on.
The OECD middle class shrank from 64% to 61%.
Between the mid-1980s and mid-2010s, roughly one percentage point per decade.
70% of boomers were middle class in their twenties.
For millennials at the same age it was 60%, per the OECD's 2019 report.
The middle class has rungs: 75%, 100%, 150% and 200% of the median.
In Chile: a floor of CLP 6.120.000, a midpoint of CLP 8.160.000, a ceiling of CLP 16.320.000.
Twice the median is not "rich". It's the edge of "middle".
Above CLP 16.320.000 the OECD stops calling you middle class and starts calling you upper income.
Frequently Asked Questions

Net labor income per worker (annualised) · Net monthly income from the main occupation of each employed person (after social contributions and taxes), measured by INE Chile's Encuesta Suplementaria de Ingresos (ESI) 2025, collected October to December 2025 in October 2025 pesos. This is per-worker labor income, not household income: INE stopped publishing household income with the 2021 ESI redesign. Monthly figures are multiplied by 12 for this page. Percentile thresholds come from INE's published distribution of employed persons across income brackets (Resultados ESI 2025 launch presentation and Sintesis de resultados 2025): the cumulative share of workers below each bracket edge, with linear interpolation inside a bracket. The top published point is CLP 3,000,000 per month (top 4.3%), so no top 1% threshold is shown.

"Middle class" on this page follows the OECD definition from Under Pressure: The Squeezed Middle Class (2019): households earning between 75% and 200% of the national median income, with lower-middle (75-100%), mid (100-150%) and upper-middle (150-200%) rungs. The cut-offs of CLP 6.120.000 and CLP 16.320.000 are derived arithmetically from the median shown in the source data; they are not percentile thresholds published by the statistical office.

Data: INE Chile · Encuesta Suplementaria de Ingresos (ESI) 2025: Síntesis de principales resultados + Resultados ESI 2025, distribución por tramos de ingreso (annualised by ×12) · income year 2025, survey wave 2025

OECD (2019), Under Pressure: The Squeezed Middle Class

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