Income percentiles in Solomon Islands
Where each yearly income band starts in Solomon Islands, in SBD, and what a reading there measures.
Reference data version 2026.4, reference year 2024.
Three cut-offs
- Bottom tenth
- under SBD 8,900 a year
- Top tenth
- from SBD 44,000 a year
- Top hundredth
- from SBD 110,000 a year
The middle of the distribution, the 40th to 55th percentile, is SBD 16,000 – SBD 20,000 a year.
Every band
The 11 bands the income question offers in Solomon Islands, verbatim, lowest first.
| Band | Yearly income |
|---|---|
| Below the 10th percentile | under SBD 8,900 |
| 10th to 25th percentile | SBD 8,900 – SBD 13,000 |
| 25th to 40th percentile | SBD 13,000 – SBD 16,000 |
| 40th to 55th percentile | SBD 16,000 – SBD 20,000 |
| 55th to 70th percentile | SBD 20,000 – SBD 26,000 |
| 70th to 80th percentile | SBD 26,000 – SBD 32,000 |
| 80th to 90th percentile | SBD 32,000 – SBD 44,000 |
| 90th to 95th percentile | SBD 44,000 – SBD 58,000 |
| 95th to 98th percentile | SBD 58,000 – SBD 82,000 |
| 98th to 99th percentile | SBD 82,000 – SBD 110,000 |
| Top 1% | SBD 110,000 or more |
Per earner. The source publishes household consumption divided by everyone in the household; the labels multiply it by 1.91, the people one worker's income stands for in Solomon Islands, so a person can place their own income.
In Solomon Islands the distribution is measured on consumption, not income. The two are not interchangeable, and the multiplier does not turn one into the other.
What the data rests on
- Confidence
- Low
- Years covered
- 1981 to 2024
- Survey-based years
- 0% of covered years
- Nearest survey
- 12 years from 2024
- Age bands
- none published; the all-ages row answers
- Measured on
- consumption
- Currency
- SBD (SBD)
Why: the nearest measured survey is 12 years from the reference year.
What a reading in Solomon Islands 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 Solomon Islands itself.
- Your ground: both incomes with consumer prices in Solomon Islands taken out, against how the middle of the distribution moved over the same year.
- Nothing is compared across borders. A reading in Solomon Islands is measured against Solomon Islands 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.