Income percentiles in Hungary
Where each yearly income band starts in Hungary, in HUF, and what a reading there measures.
Reference data version 2026.4, reference year 2024.
Three cut-offs
- Bottom tenth
- under Ft 2,200,000 a year
- Top tenth
- from Ft 8,500,000 a year
- Top hundredth
- from Ft 17,300,000 a year
The middle of the distribution, the 40th to 55th percentile, is Ft 4,000,000 – Ft 4,800,000 a year.
Every band
The 11 bands the income question offers in Hungary, verbatim, lowest first.
| Band | Yearly income |
|---|---|
| Below the 10th percentile | under Ft 2,200,000 |
| 10th to 25th percentile | Ft 2,200,000 – Ft 3,100,000 |
| 25th to 40th percentile | Ft 3,100,000 – Ft 4,000,000 |
| 40th to 55th percentile | Ft 4,000,000 – Ft 4,800,000 |
| 55th to 70th percentile | Ft 4,800,000 – Ft 5,800,000 |
| 70th to 80th percentile | Ft 5,800,000 – Ft 6,800,000 |
| 80th to 90th percentile | Ft 6,800,000 – Ft 8,500,000 |
| 90th to 95th percentile | Ft 8,500,000 – Ft 10,300,000 |
| 95th to 98th percentile | Ft 10,300,000 – Ft 13,500,000 |
| 98th to 99th percentile | Ft 13,500,000 – Ft 17,300,000 |
| Top 1% | Ft 17,300,000 or more |
Per earner. The source publishes household income divided by everyone in the household; the labels multiply it by 2.02, the people one worker's income stands for in Hungary, so a person can place their own income.
What the data rests on
- Confidence
- Low
- Years covered
- 1981 to 2024
- Survey-based years
- 57% of covered years
- Nearest survey
- 7 years from 2024
- Age bands
- 6 of 6 resolved by the OECD
- Measured on
- income
- Currency
- HUF (Ft)
Why: the nearest measured survey is 7 years from the reference year.
What a reading in Hungary 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 Hungary itself.
- Your ground: both incomes with consumer prices in Hungary taken out, against how the middle of the distribution moved over the same year.
- Nothing is compared across borders. A reading in Hungary is measured against Hungary 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.