Income percentiles in Romania
Where each yearly income band starts in Romania, in RON, and what a reading there measures.
Reference data version 2026.4, reference year 2024.
Three cut-offs
- Bottom tenth
- under lei 28,000 a year
- Top tenth
- from lei 130,000 a year
- Top hundredth
- from lei 220,000 a year
The middle of the distribution, the 40th to 55th percentile, is lei 62,000 – lei 75,000 a year.
Every band
The 11 bands the income question offers in Romania, verbatim, lowest first.
| Band | Yearly income |
|---|---|
| Below the 10th percentile | under lei 28,000 |
| 10th to 25th percentile | lei 28,000 – lei 48,000 |
| 25th to 40th percentile | lei 48,000 – lei 62,000 |
| 40th to 55th percentile | lei 62,000 – lei 75,000 |
| 55th to 70th percentile | lei 75,000 – lei 91,000 |
| 70th to 80th percentile | lei 91,000 – lei 110,000 |
| 80th to 90th percentile | lei 110,000 – lei 130,000 |
| 90th to 95th percentile | lei 130,000 – lei 150,000 |
| 95th to 98th percentile | lei 150,000 – lei 190,000 |
| 98th to 99th percentile | lei 190,000 – lei 220,000 |
| Top 1% | lei 220,000 or more |
Per earner. The source publishes household income divided by everyone in the household; the labels multiply it by 2.44, the people one worker's income stands for in Romania, so a person can place their own income.
What the data rests on
- Confidence
- Low
- Years covered
- 1990 to 2024
- Survey-based years
- 86% of covered years
- Nearest survey
- 1 years from 2024
- Age bands
- 6 of 6 resolved by the OECD
- Measured on
- income
- Currency
- RON (lei)
Why: part of the price index had to be bridged rather than read from the national series.
Before 1993 the series is quoted in the prices of the currency introduced that year; real change across the switch is exact.
What a reading in Romania 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 Romania itself.
- Your ground: both incomes with consumer prices in Romania taken out, against how the middle of the distribution moved over the same year.
- Nothing is compared across borders. A reading in Romania is measured against Romania 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.