🇨🇱 Chile·Labor income per worker · monthly·INE Chile · ESI 2025
How does your income rank across Chile, region by region?
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Regions where you're above the median · Chile
11/16
Your income of CLP 680.000/mo is above the median household in 11 of 16 regions.
The federal extremes
One country, three economies.
The income gap between Antofagasta and La Araucanía is roughly 1.5× at the median. The national median sits between them at CLP 680.000/mo.
Lowest median state
La Araucanía
CL$550k
CLP 550.232/mo median household income
National median
Whole country
CL$680k
CLP 680.000/mo · national mean CLP 962.945/mo
Highest median state
Antofagasta
CL$830k
CLP 830.350/mo median household income
Region by region · 16 regions
Your income against every region's median.
This survey publishes the median and mean per region, but not the full income distribution, so we compare your income to each region's median rather than claim a percentile. The median sits at the halfway notch; a full bar is roughly twice the local median.
Region
Median household / mo
Antofagasta
CL$830k
Magallanes
CL$800k
Metropolitana de Santiagoyour region
CL$740k
Aysén
CL$713k
Atacama
CL$689k
Biobío
CL$635k
Valparaíso
CL$630k
Tarapacá
CL$623k
Los Lagos
CL$602k
Coquimbo
CL$600k
Los Ríos
CL$600k
O'Higgins
CL$600k
Arica y Parinacota
CL$600k
Ñuble
CL$599k
Maule
CL$587k
La Araucanía
CL$550k
The bar shows your income against each region's median household income (the notch marks the median, the right edge is twice it). No per-region percentiles are claimed because regional decile data is not published.
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Frequently asked questions
The mean net monthly labor income in Chile was CLP 962,945 in 2025 (INE, Encuesta Suplementaria de Ingresos 2025). The median was much lower at CLP 680,000: half of all workers earned that amount or less. The mean sits 42% above the median because top salaries pull the average up; 68.7% of workers earn at or below the national mean. On this page incomes are annualized, so the median is CLP 8,160,000 per year.
Only 29.4% of employed people earned CLP 1,000,000 or more net per month in 2025. Just 9.6% reached CLP 2,000,000, and only 4.3% earned CLP 3,000,000 or more. So a net monthly income around CLP 2,000,000 already puts you close to the top 10% of earners in Chile, and CLP 3,000,000 puts you in roughly the top 4%.
INE's inequality indicators for ESI 2025 put the average income of the top decile at CLP 4,059,729 per month, which is 18.5 times the bottom decile's average of CLP 219,027. Those decile figures are standardized to a typical 189-hour work month, so they are slightly different from raw monthly incomes, but they show the scale of the gap.
The median net monthly labor income was CLP 680,000 in 2025, up from CLP 611,162 in 2024. For men the median was CLP 701,985 and for women CLP 600,253, a gap of about 14%. The ESI measures net income, after social security contributions and taxes.
Antofagasta, driven by mining, has the highest regional median at CLP 830,350 per month, followed by Magallanes (CLP 800,000) and the Metropolitana region around Santiago (CLP 740,312). The lowest median is La Araucanía at CLP 550,232, about 1.5 times less than Antofagasta.
The ESI is a module of Chile's national employment survey (ENE) and measures each employed person's net income from their main occupation. Since the 2021 redesign, INE no longer publishes household-level income, so no household comparison is possible from this source. Figures are net (take-home) and monthly; this page multiplies them by 12 to show annual values.