Income percentiles in El Salvador
Where each yearly income band starts in El Salvador, in USD, and what a reading there measures.
Reference data version 2026.4, reference year 2024.
Three cut-offs
- Bottom tenth
- under $2,100 a year
- Top tenth
- from $14,000 a year
- Top hundredth
- from $32,000 a year
The middle of the distribution, the 40th to 55th percentile, is $4,600 – $6,000 a year.
Every band
The 11 bands the income question offers in El Salvador, verbatim, lowest first.
| Band | Yearly income |
|---|---|
| Below the 10th percentile | under $2,100 |
| 10th to 25th percentile | $2,100 – $3,500 |
| 25th to 40th percentile | $3,500 – $4,600 |
| 40th to 55th percentile | $4,600 – $6,000 |
| 55th to 70th percentile | $6,000 – $7,900 |
| 70th to 80th percentile | $7,900 – $9,900 |
| 80th to 90th percentile | $9,900 – $14,000 |
| 90th to 95th percentile | $14,000 – $18,000 |
| 95th to 98th percentile | $18,000 – $25,000 |
| 98th to 99th percentile | $25,000 – $32,000 |
| Top 1% | $32,000 or more |
Per earner. The source publishes household income divided by everyone in the household; the labels multiply it by 2.22, the people one worker's income stands for in El Salvador, so a person can place their own income.
What the data rests on
- Confidence
- Low
- Years covered
- 1981 to 2024
- Survey-based years
- 66% of covered years
- Nearest survey
- 1 years from 2024
- Age bands
- none published; the all-ages row answers
- Measured on
- income
- Currency
- USD ($)
Why: part of the price index had to be bridged rather than read from the national series.
Before 1986 the series is quoted in the prices of the currency introduced that year; real change across the switch is exact.
What a reading in El Salvador 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 El Salvador itself.
- Your ground: both incomes with consumer prices in El Salvador taken out, against how the middle of the distribution moved over the same year.
- Nothing is compared across borders. A reading in El Salvador is measured against El Salvador 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.