India income percentiles · 2022-23
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The real distribution, across all 92 crore Indian adults.
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- What a 5 to 50% raise does to your rank
- Your standing in 13 cities, with equivalent salaries
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Effect of a raise
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Rank against local incomes. Tap to switch.Share of all national income
Top 10% take 57.7%The distribution
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Reference points
Official survey figures, monthlyIn numbers
Read this as a distribution, not a scorecard. The national figure covers every Indian adult, including the 58% who are self employed and the 20% in casual work. Only 22% draw a regular salary. Against your own professional peers you will rank lower, which is ordinary.
Method and sources
Percentile thresholds
World Inequality Lab, Income and Wealth Inequality in India, 1922 to 2023. Reference year 2022-23.
Labour context
Periodic Labour Force Survey, July 2023 to June 2024, National Sample Survey Office.
City and age figures
Directional multipliers, not survey tables. Marked est throughout. PLFS state level data is the planned replacement.
Below the 25th percentile
The source publishes no thresholds there. That range is greyed out and no precise rank is quoted.