Income percentiles in Panama
Where each yearly income band starts in Panama, in PAB, and what a reading there measures.
Reference data version 2026.4, reference year 2024.
Three cut-offs
- Bottom tenth
- under PAB 2,500 a year
- Top tenth
- from PAB 29,000 a year
- Top hundredth
- from PAB 79,000 a year
The middle of the distribution, the 40th to 55th percentile, is PAB 6,900 – PAB 9,900 a year.
Every band
The 11 bands the income question offers in Panama, verbatim, lowest first.
| Band | Yearly income |
|---|---|
| Below the 10th percentile | under PAB 2,500 |
| 10th to 25th percentile | PAB 2,500 – PAB 4,700 |
| 25th to 40th percentile | PAB 4,700 – PAB 6,900 |
| 40th to 55th percentile | PAB 6,900 – PAB 9,900 |
| 55th to 70th percentile | PAB 9,900 – PAB 14,000 |
| 70th to 80th percentile | PAB 14,000 – PAB 19,000 |
| 80th to 90th percentile | PAB 19,000 – PAB 29,000 |
| 90th to 95th percentile | PAB 29,000 – PAB 42,000 |
| 95th to 98th percentile | PAB 42,000 – PAB 60,000 |
| 98th to 99th percentile | PAB 60,000 – PAB 79,000 |
| Top 1% | PAB 79,000 or more |
Per earner. The source publishes household income divided by everyone in the household; the labels multiply it by 2.19, the people one worker's income stands for in Panama, so a person can place their own income.
What the data rests on
- Confidence
- Medium
- Years covered
- 1981 to 2024
- Survey-based years
- 66% of covered years
- Nearest survey
- in 2024 itself
- Age bands
- none published; the all-ages row answers
- Measured on
- income
- Currency
- PAB (PAB)
Why: the span is short of the longest horizon; no age breakdown is published for it.
What a reading in Panama 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 Panama itself.
- Your ground: both incomes with consumer prices in Panama taken out, against how the middle of the distribution moved over the same year.
- Nothing is compared across borders. A reading in Panama is measured against Panama 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.