🌐 ILO ILOSTAT·Mean monthly earnings · PPP-adjusted·59 economies · 2025 release
Where does your salary go furthest?
Type what you earn. See your real purchasing power against 59 country averages.
I earn roughly $USD a year in .
Your salary in PPP $ · monthly
PPP $6,667
#5 of 59
Top decile
Top of the global wage range
Annual, local$80,000
÷ 12Monthly, local$6,667
÷ 1 PPPMonthly, PPP $PPP $6,667
That's 1.9× the mean wage of the median country in the ILO series (PPP $3,480/month).
Where you sit on the global wage range
Top, bottom, you.
The highest-paid country in the ILO series pays its average worker 32× what the lowest-paid country pays. Same job titles, same hours, dramatically different baskets of goods. You sit between them. Type a different salary above to see your number move.
Top mean wage
🇱🇺Luxembourg
PPP $9,307
You
🇺🇸In United States
PPP $6,667
Lowest mean wage
🇳🇬Nigeria
PPP $288
The full ranking · 59 countries + you
The wage ladder, in PPP dollars.
Each bar is a country's mean monthly earnings, ILO data, converted to a single international PPP basket. Your salary slots in at its real rank. Top of the ladder pays its average worker 32× what the bottom pays.
01
🇱🇺
Luxembourg
PPP $9,307
02
🇧🇪
Belgium
PPP $8,297
03
🇳🇱
Netherlands
PPP $7,234
04
🇦🇹
Austria
PPP $6,832
05
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YOU
PPP $6,667
06
🇺🇸
United Statesyour country's mean
PPP $6,273
07
🇫🇮
Finland
PPP $6,253
08
🇩🇪
Germany
PPP $6,135
09
🇳🇴
Norway
PPP $5,760
10
🇩🇰
Denmark
PPP $5,512
11
🇮🇪
Ireland
PPP $5,441
12
🇮🇹
Italy
PPP $5,326
13
🇸🇮
Slovenia
PPP $5,291
14
🇪🇸
Spain
PPP $5,166
15
🇨🇦
Canada
PPP $4,747
16
🇨🇭
Switzerland
PPP $4,683
17
🇨🇾
Cyprus
PPP $4,566
18
🇸🇪
Sweden
PPP $4,538
19
🇰🇷
South Korea
PPP $4,525
20
🇸🇬
Singapore
PPP $4,420
21
🇮🇸
Iceland
PPP $4,255
22
🇬🇧
United Kingdom
PPP $4,124
23
🇪🇪
Estonia
PPP $4,065
24
🇳🇿
New Zealand
PPP $4,064
25
🇱🇻
Latvia
PPP $4,011
26
🇱🇹
Lithuania
PPP $4,001
27
🇭🇷
Croatia
PPP $3,945
28
🇦🇺
Australia
PPP $3,926
29
🇨🇿
Czechia
PPP $3,561
30
🇬🇷
Greece
PPP $3,546
31
🇸🇦
Saudi Arabia
PPP $3,480
32
🇵🇱
Poland
PPP $3,082
33
🇫🇷
France
PPP $3,064
34
🇷🇴
Romania
PPP $2,919
35
🇯🇵
Japan
PPP $2,809
36
🇮🇱
Israel
PPP $2,700
37
🇧🇬
Bulgaria
PPP $2,627
38
🇸🇰
Slovakia
PPP $2,451
39
🇹🇷
Türkiye
PPP $2,245
40
🇷🇺
Russia
PPP $2,222
41
🇨🇱
Chile
PPP $2,079
42
🇵🇹
Portugal
PPP $2,077
43
🇭🇺
Hungary
PPP $1,973
44
🇲🇾
Malaysia
PPP $1,866
45
🇨🇷
Costa Rica
PPP $1,831
46
🇺🇾
Uruguay
PPP $1,636
47
🇹🇭
Thailand
PPP $1,515
48
🇨🇳
China
PPP $1,435
49
🇧🇷
Brazil
PPP $1,314
50
🇦🇷
Argentina
PPP $1,239
51
🇻🇳
Vietnam
PPP $1,198
52
🇨🇴
Colombia
PPP $1,126
53
🇮🇳
India
PPP $1,122
54
🇿🇦
South Africa
PPP $1,076
55
🇵🇪
Peru
PPP $1,042
56
🇲🇽
Mexico
PPP $909
57
🇵🇭
Philippines
PPP $851
58
🇪🇬
Egypt
PPP $713
59
🇮🇩
Indonesia
PPP $540
60
🇳🇬
Nigeria
PPP $288
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Where your salary goes furthest
Your PPP $ as a multiple of local mean wages.
Six countries spread across the wage range. A 2.0× reading means your salary is double the mean local worker's; 0.5× means half. Higher is not better in absolute terms; it just tells you how close to average your wage lands once you adjust for what things cost.
🇲🇽Mexicomean PPP $909/mo
7.3×the local mean
You'd outearn the average worker by 633%.
🇮🇳Indiamean PPP $1,122/mo
5.9×the local mean
You'd outearn the average worker by 494%.
🇬🇧United Kingdommean PPP $4,124/mo
1.6×the local mean
You'd outearn the average worker by 62%.
🇨🇭Switzerlandmean PPP $4,683/mo
1.4×the local mean
You'd outearn the average worker by 42%.
🇪🇸Spainmean PPP $5,166/mo
1.3×the local mean
You'd outearn the average worker by 29%.
🇩🇪Germanymean PPP $6,135/mo
1.1×the local mean
You'd outearn the average worker by 9%.
The axis on each card stops at 5×. The tick on the bar marks 1×, the local average.
If you moved
Moving from United States to
Two ways to read the same number. Switzerland's average worker earns PPP $4,683/month, which is 0.75× what your country's average earns. Hold your real purchasing power constant and that same lifestyle in Switzerland would cost the local employer CHF 88'560/year.
In United States
Your salary, in PPP $PPP $6,667 /mo
Mean local wagePPP $6,273 /mo
You vs local mean1.06×
→
In Switzerland
Same salary, PPP $PPP $6,667 /mo
Mean local wagePPP $4,683 /mo
You vs local mean1.42×
The same salary assumes your PPP-adjusted earnings move with you. A reasonable model for remote work or an expat package, not for taking the local-market rate.
Three numbers worth the asterisk
What the league table hides.
The leader
Luxembourg pays its average worker many times what the lowest-paid country does.
A specialty-export economy with a strong currency lifts every wage band. The ratio holds after the PPP adjustment, meaning Luxembourg is not expensive but the same in real terms; it is genuinely richer per worker.
The PPP boost
India's wages get a 3× upgrade when you switch from USD to PPP $.
About 240 rupees buys what $1 buys in the US, roughly 3× what the spot exchange rate would suggest. That's the PPP adjustment, and it shrinks the global wage gap considerably. Without it, every emerging-market wage looks dramatically poorer than it actually feels on the ground.
The blind spot
Mean wages hide a long left tail.
ILO publishes mean wages because they're available everywhere; medians aren't. In high-inequality economies (US, UK, Brazil), the mean overstates the typical worker by 10 to 25%. The shape of the wage distribution matters as much as the average.
Compare cities instead?
A PPP-adjusted wage tells you how much the average worker earns. The cost-of-living index tells you how much that wage actually buys, neighbourhood by neighbourhood.
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Next steps
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Cost-of-living index
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Frequently asked
PPP (purchasing power parity) adjusts wages so they reflect what they can actually buy locally. A nominal salary of $100,000 in Switzerland and $100,000 in Mexico are not equivalent — Switzerland is much more expensive. PPP adjustment converts both to a common 'international dollar' that represents the same basket of goods, making cross-country wage comparisons fair.
Switzerland has some of the highest nominal wages in the world, but also the highest cost of living. Once PPP is applied, the average Swiss worker ranks 14th globally — behind Italy and Spain — because so much of that high salary goes to housing, services, and groceries that cost 30%+ more than in the United States.
Luxembourg combines very high nominal wages (driven by its concentration of finance, EU institutions, and skilled cross-border labour) with a relatively moderate cost of living compared to Swiss or Norwegian levels. The result is the highest PPP-adjusted average wage in the world — roughly 50% above the United States.
These are mean (average) monthly gross earnings of employees. Means are pulled upward by very high earners, so the typical worker usually earns less than the mean. For median figures or full distributions within a country, see our country-specific income insight pages.
The ILO collects data from each country's national statistical office, and not every country reports every year. We use the most recent published value per country. Some economies (Switzerland, Australia, Japan, Singapore, Saudi Arabia) most recently reported in 2021–2022; we keep using their published figure rather than estimating a more recent one.