South Africa · Income · 2022 data
Am I rich in South Africa?
Enter your household income after tax. See your percentile — and what it actually means.
ZAR
Data: World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform — South Africa 2022, based on StatsSA Income and Expenditure Survey (IES) 2022/23. Per-capita consumption in 2022 nominal ZAR, derived from the PIP API. · income year 2022, survey wave 2022
Income distribution in South Africa
Each bar is a slice of South Africa households. The cyan marker shows where you sit; the threshold flags below mark the median, top 10% and top 1%.
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What the numbers actually say
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To join the top 10%, earn about 4.4× the median.
About 4.4× the typical household in South Africa.
60% of South Africa lives between R 9 941 and R 51 286.
If you're in this band, you're 'normal' — by the data.
The top 1% earn 13.1× the typical household.
It's a gulf, not a gap.
Cross R 136 802 and you've outearned 95% of South Africa.
The top 5% starts here.
The average (R 38 003) sits well above the median.
A few very high earners pull the mean up — the median is the truer middle.
A top-10% household earns 12.5× the bottom 10%.
The full spread of South Africa, in one number.
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