🇲🇽 Mexico·Household income · monthly·INEGI ENIGH 2024
How does your income rank across Mexico, region by region?
Same paycheck, 20 different answers. Pick your region, type your income, see where it puts you.
I earn MX$/ MONTH a month in .
Your position · Ciudad de México households
TOP68%
Decile 3 of 10 · Ciudad de México
Lower middle
Below the national median (~MX$20k/mo).
You outrank 32% of households in Ciudad de México. That's 0.7× the state median (MXN 27,569/mo).
The federal extremes
One country, three economies.
The income gap between Baja California Sur and Chiapas is roughly 2.7× at the median. INEGI publishes monthly decile means at 2024 prices; the national median sits between them at MXN 19,818/mo.
Lowest median state
Chiapas
MX$11k
MXN 10,724/mo · top decile mean MXN 39,275
National median
All of Mexico
MX$20k
MXN 19,818/mo · national mean MXN 25,955/mo
Highest median state
Baja California Sur
MX$29k
MXN 29,223/mo · top decile mean MXN 88,594
Ciudad de México · the distribution
Where your income lands in Ciudad de México.
Each bar is one decile, 10% of households in Ciudad de México, ranked low to high by monthly income. INEGI publishes the mean within each decile, not threshold cut-offs; the bars span the half-distance between adjacent decile means. Your row sits in your decile.
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Decile means at average 2024 prices, monthly MXN. Methodology: INEGI ENIGH 2024, Cuadro 6.
Same paycheck, 32 different answers
Your income, plotted against every Mexican state.
The richest state's top-decile mean is many times the poorest's. A salary that puts you in the upper-middle nationally might be top-decile in one state and median in another. Sort by your percentile to find your most flattering jurisdiction.
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State
Median household / mo
Your position
Chiapas
MX$11k
Top 19%1.8× state median
Guerrero
MX$12k
Top 26%1.6× state median
Veracruz
MX$14k
Top 30%1.4× state median
Oaxaca
MX$13k
Top 31%1.5× state median
Tlaxcala
MX$16k
Top 36%1.3× state median
Hidalgo
MX$16k
Top 37%1.3× state median
Zacatecas
MX$16k
Top 37%1.3× state median
Puebla
MX$16k
Top 38%1.2× state median
Tabasco
MX$16k
Top 39%1.2× state median
Campeche
MX$17k
Top 41%1.2× state median
Michoacán
MX$17k
Top 42%1.1× state median
Morelos
MX$17k
Top 42%1.1× state median
San Luis Potosí
MX$19k
Top 47%1.1× state median
Durango
MX$19k
Top 48%1.0× state median
Estado de México
MX$19k
Top 49%1.0× state median
Guanajuato
MX$20k
Top 50%1.0× state median
Nayarit
MX$20k
Top 51%1.0× state median
Yucatán
MX$21k
Top 53%1.0× state median
Tamaulipas
MX$21k
Top 54%0.9× state median
Colima
MX$23k
Top 59%0.9× state median
Sinaloa
MX$23k
Top 59%0.9× state median
Jalisco
MX$23k
Top 59%0.9× state median
Coahuila
MX$24k
Top 62%0.8× state median
Aguascalientes
MX$24k
Top 62%0.8× state median
Sonora
MX$25k
Top 63%0.8× state median
Chihuahua
MX$25k
Top 63%0.8× state median
Quintana Roo
MX$24k
Top 63%0.8× state median
Querétaro
MX$25k
Top 65%0.8× state median
Ciudad de Méxicoyour state
MX$28k
Top 68%0.7× state median
Nuevo León
MX$28k
Top 70%0.7× state median
Baja California
MX$28k
Top 72%0.7× state median
Baja California Sur
MX$29k
Top 73%0.7× state median
The filled bar shows your percentile on each state's monthly-income distribution; the notch sits at the state median. Source: INEGI ENIGH 2024, by entidad federativa.
Three numbers worth the asterisk
What the percentile hides.
The federalismo gap
Top-decile income in Nuevo León is 3.6× top-decile income in Chiapas.
The richest 10% in Nuevo León earn on average MXN 139,754/mo. The richest 10% in Chiapas earn MXN 39,275/mo. National averages mask wage gaps larger than between many European countries.
Gini is falling
Mexico's income inequality dropped from 0.449 (2016) to 0.391 (2024).
A meaningful structural shift, driven by minimum-wage increases and expanded social-transfer programmes. The top decile still earns about 14× the bottom, but the ratio shrinks each survey wave.
Decile, not percentile
INEGI publishes mean income within each decile, not P10 / P50 / P90 thresholds.
The reveal on this page uses the published decile means as percentile anchors (P5, P15, …, P95) and interpolates between them. Exact cut-offs would require processing the public-use microdata. Treat percentiles as roughly ±2pp accurate.
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Frequently asked questions
Using current household income (INEGI ENIGH 2024, annualised), the average household in the top decile earns MXN 944,380 per year (MXN 236,095 per quarter, MXN 78,700/month). INEGI does not publish exact P90, P95 or P99 cut-offs — only the average within each decile — so the threshold for joining the top 10% is somewhat below this average.
An annual current income of MXN 300,000 (MXN 75,000/quarter) sits roughly between the 6th and 7th decile in Mexico — above the average of the 6th decile (MXN 258,400/year) and just below the average of the 7th decile (MXN 309,804/year). It is comfortably above the national mean of MXN 311,456 and well above the median (~MXN 237,816).
INEGI doesn't publish the exact median — but the mean of the 5th decile is MXN 217,232/year and the 6th decile is MXN 258,400/year, so the median sits between them, around MXN 237,816/year (about MXN 19,818/month). The national mean (MXN 311,456/year) is higher because top earners pull the average up.
Mexico's Gini coefficient on household current income was 0.391 in 2024 (down from 0.402 in 2022 and 0.449 in 2016) — inequality has been falling steadily. The top decile earns 14× what the bottom decile does on average. The trend is towards a less concentrated distribution, partly driven by minimum wage increases and expanded social programmes.
The Encuesta Nacional de Ingresos y Gastos de los Hogares (ENIGH) standard publication reports the mean income within each of 10 deciles, plus the national mean. Exact percentile cut-offs (P10, P25, P50, P75, P90, P99) are not in the press release — they would require processing the public-use microdata files at https://www.inegi.org.mx/programas/enigh/nc/2024/. The decile means used here are mapped to mid-decile percentile points as a reasonable approximation.