Income percentiles in Qatar
Where each yearly income band starts in Qatar, in QAR, and what a reading there measures.
Reference data version 2026.4, reference year 2024.
Three cut-offs
- Bottom tenth
- under QR 44,000 a year
- Top tenth
- from QR 250,000 a year
- Top hundredth
- from QR 480,000 a year
The middle of the distribution, the 40th to 55th percentile, is QR 94,000 – QR 120,000 a year.
Every band
The 11 bands the income question offers in Qatar, verbatim, lowest first.
| Band | Yearly income |
|---|---|
| Below the 10th percentile | under QR 44,000 |
| 10th to 25th percentile | QR 44,000 – QR 70,000 |
| 25th to 40th percentile | QR 70,000 – QR 94,000 |
| 40th to 55th percentile | QR 94,000 – QR 120,000 |
| 55th to 70th percentile | QR 120,000 – QR 150,000 |
| 70th to 80th percentile | QR 150,000 – QR 190,000 |
| 80th to 90th percentile | QR 190,000 – QR 250,000 |
| 90th to 95th percentile | QR 250,000 – QR 320,000 |
| 95th to 98th percentile | QR 320,000 – QR 410,000 |
| 98th to 99th percentile | QR 410,000 – QR 480,000 |
| Top 1% | QR 480,000 or more |
Per earner. The source publishes household income divided by everyone in the household; the labels multiply it by 1.35, the people one worker's income stands for in Qatar, so a person can place their own income.
What the data rests on
- Confidence
- Low
- Years covered
- 1981 to 2024
- Survey-based years
- 0% of covered years
- Nearest survey
- 7 years from 2024
- Age bands
- none published; the all-ages row answers
- Measured on
- income
- Currency
- QAR (QR)
Why: the nearest measured survey is 7 years from the reference year.
What a reading in Qatar 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 Qatar itself.
- Your ground: both incomes with consumer prices in Qatar taken out, against how the middle of the distribution moved over the same year.
- Nothing is compared across borders. A reading in Qatar is measured against Qatar 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.