Income percentiles in Trinidad and Tobago
Where each yearly income band starts in Trinidad and Tobago, in TTD, and what a reading there measures.
Reference data version 2026.4, reference year 2024.
Three cut-offs
- Bottom tenth
- under TT$38,000 a year
- Top tenth
- from TT$260,000 a year
- Top hundredth
- from TT$630,000 a year
The middle of the distribution, the 40th to 55th percentile, is TT$87,000 – TT$110,000 a year.
Every band
The 11 bands the income question offers in Trinidad and Tobago, verbatim, lowest first.
| Band | Yearly income |
|---|---|
| Below the 10th percentile | under TT$38,000 |
| 10th to 25th percentile | TT$38,000 – TT$62,000 |
| 25th to 40th percentile | TT$62,000 – TT$87,000 |
| 40th to 55th percentile | TT$87,000 – TT$110,000 |
| 55th to 70th percentile | TT$110,000 – TT$150,000 |
| 70th to 80th percentile | TT$150,000 – TT$190,000 |
| 80th to 90th percentile | TT$190,000 – TT$260,000 |
| 90th to 95th percentile | TT$260,000 – TT$350,000 |
| 95th to 98th percentile | TT$350,000 – TT$500,000 |
| 98th to 99th percentile | TT$500,000 – TT$630,000 |
| Top 1% | TT$630,000 or more |
Per earner. The source publishes household income divided by everyone in the household; the labels multiply it by 2.16, the people one worker's income stands for in Trinidad and Tobago, so a person can place their own income.
What the data rests on
- Confidence
- Low
- Years covered
- 1981 to 2024
- Survey-based years
- 5% of covered years
- Nearest survey
- 32 years from 2024
- Age bands
- none published; the all-ages row answers
- Measured on
- income
- Currency
- TTD (TT$)
Why: the nearest measured survey is 32 years from the reference year.
What a reading in Trinidad and Tobago 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 Trinidad and Tobago itself.
- Your ground: both incomes with consumer prices in Trinidad and Tobago taken out, against how the middle of the distribution moved over the same year.
- Nothing is compared across borders. A reading in Trinidad and Tobago is measured against Trinidad and Tobago 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.