Income percentiles in United Arab Emirates
Where each yearly income band starts in United Arab Emirates, in AED, and what a reading there measures.
Reference data version 2026.4, reference year 2024.
Three cut-offs
- Bottom tenth
- under AED 78,000 a year
- Top tenth
- from AED 280,000 a year
- Top hundredth
- from AED 480,000 a year
The middle of the distribution, the 40th to 55th percentile, is AED 150,000 – AED 180,000 a year.
Every band
The 11 bands the income question offers in United Arab Emirates, verbatim, lowest first.
| Band | Yearly income |
|---|---|
| Below the 10th percentile | under AED 78,000 |
| 10th to 25th percentile | AED 78,000 – AED 120,000 |
| 25th to 40th percentile | AED 120,000 – AED 150,000 |
| 40th to 55th percentile | AED 150,000 – AED 180,000 |
| 55th to 70th percentile | AED 180,000 – AED 210,000 |
| 70th to 80th percentile | AED 210,000 – AED 230,000 |
| 80th to 90th percentile | AED 230,000 – AED 280,000 |
| 90th to 95th percentile | AED 280,000 – AED 340,000 |
| 95th to 98th percentile | AED 340,000 – AED 420,000 |
| 98th to 99th percentile | AED 420,000 – AED 480,000 |
| Top 1% | AED 480,000 or more |
Per earner. The source publishes household income divided by everyone in the household; the labels multiply it by 1.55, the people one worker's income stands for in United Arab Emirates, so a person can place their own income.
What the data rests on
- Confidence
- Low
- Years covered
- 2007 to 2024
- Survey-based years
- 6% of covered years
- Nearest survey
- 6 years from 2024
- Age bands
- none published; the all-ages row answers
- Measured on
- income
- Currency
- AED (AED)
Why: the nearest measured survey is 6 years from the reference year.
What a reading in United Arab Emirates measures
- Your place: which of the bands above your income is in now, against the band it was in a year ago, read as a position in the income distribution of United Arab Emirates itself.
- Your ground: both incomes with consumer prices in United Arab Emirates taken out, against how the middle of the distribution moved over the same year.
- Nothing is compared across borders. A reading in United Arab Emirates is measured against United Arab Emirates alone.
A band is a range, so a move inside one band does not register, and published distributions understate the very top. The confidence level above travels onto every card measured here.