🇵🇹 Portugal·Income per adult equivalent · annual·INEGI ENIGH 2024
How does your income rank across Portugal, region by region?
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Regions where you're above the median · Portugal
7/9
Your income of 14 500 EUR/yr is above the median in 7 of 9 regions.
The federal extremes
One country, three economies.
The income gap between Grande Lisboa and Centro is roughly 1.2× at the median. The national median sits between them at 14 465 EUR/mo.
Lowest median state
Centro
EUR 14k
13 812 EUR/mo median household income
National median
All of Mexico
EUR 14k
14 465 EUR/mo · national mean 17 019 EUR/mo
Highest median state
Grande Lisboa
EUR 17k
16 573 EUR/mo median household income
Region by region · 9 provinces
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.
State
Median household / mo
Grande Lisboa
EUR 17k
Península de Setúbal
EUR 15k
Algarve
EUR 14k
Norteyour state
EUR 14k
Madeira
EUR 14k
Oeste e Vale do Tejo
EUR 14k
Alentejo
EUR 14k
Açores
EUR 14k
Centro
EUR 14k
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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An income that lands you in the top decile of one state buys a different basket in another. See the cost-of-living comparison.
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Frequently asked questions
Using equivalised disposable household income (Eurostat EU-SILC, income year 2024), EUR 29,122 puts you in the top 10% of people living in Portugal. EUR 36,808 reaches the top 5%, and EUR 59,365 puts you in the top 1%. These are after-tax figures adjusted for household size, and they are lower than most people guess: roughly EUR 2,430 of net income per month per equivalent adult already clears the top-10% line.
The median equivalised disposable income in Portugal is EUR 14,465 per year (Eurostat EU-SILC, 2024 income reference year), about EUR 1,205 per month per equivalent adult. That is a 14% jump from the 2023 income year (EUR 12,646), one of the strongest one-year gains in the EU, driven by rapid wage growth. The mean is higher (EUR 17,019) because top earners pull the average up.
Yes. An equivalised disposable income of EUR 25,000 sits between the 80th and 90th percentiles in Portugal (the 80th percentile is EUR 22,416, the 90th is EUR 29,122). You earn more than roughly 8 in 10 people on a per-person-equivalent basis. In Portugal that is a solidly upper-tier income, even though it would be barely above the median in Germany or France.
EUR 22,416 per equivalent adult, the 80th-percentile cut-off for income year 2024. The full ladder from Eurostat's decile cut-offs: EUR 9,572 marks the bottom 20%, EUR 16,342 opens the top 40%, EUR 22,416 the top 20%, EUR 29,122 the top 10% and EUR 36,808 the top 5%.
Portugal's median equivalised disposable income of EUR 14,465 (income year 2024) is among the lowest in Western Europe: Spain's median is EUR 20,367, France's EUR 26,459, and Germany's EUR 28,891 for the same income year. The median Portuguese income is almost exactly half the German one. Portugal's lower cost of living (index 60.4 vs Germany's 78.2, US = 100) closes part of that gap in purchasing-power terms, but not all of it.
They measure different things. INE puts the average gross monthly remuneration per worker at EUR 1,602 in 2024, a per-worker figure before taxes and social contributions. This page uses after-tax household income adjusted for household size, so the two are not directly comparable: the EUR 14,465 median here (about EUR 1,205 per month) is net of taxes and spread across every household member, including children and non-working adults.
Yes, but the gap is smaller than most assume. Grande Lisboa has the highest regional median income, EUR 16,573 per equivalent adult (income year 2024), against EUR 13,812 in Centro, the lowest. That is a gap of about 20%. Grande Lisboa also records the country's lowest poverty rate, 12.2%, against 17.9% in Alentejo (INE, Rendimento e Condições de Vida 2025).
Unusually fast. The median equivalised disposable income rose from EUR 11,824 (income year 2022) to EUR 12,646 (2023) and EUR 14,465 (2024): a 14% rise in the latest year and more than 22% over two years, before inflation. The same wage surge pushed the poverty rate down to 15.4%, its lowest level in two decades.
The top-10% threshold (EUR 29,122) is almost exactly 4 times the bottom-10% threshold (EUR 7,340), and entering the top 1% (EUR 59,365) takes about 4.1 times the median. The mean (EUR 17,019) runs about 18% above the median (EUR 14,465); in France the same mean-median gap is about 15%, so Portugal's distribution is somewhat more top-heavy.
The at-risk-of-poverty threshold, defined as 60% of the median, was EUR 8,679 per year (EUR 723 per month) per equivalent adult for 2024 income, per INE's Rendimento e Condições de Vida 2025 release. About 15.4% of residents lived below it, the lowest poverty rate Portugal has recorded in two decades, thanks to the same wage surge that lifted the median by 14% in a single year.