Key information about Pakistan Household Income per Capita

• Pakistan Annual Household Income per Capita reached 587.069 USD in Jun 2019, compared with the previous value of 650.644 USD in Jun 2016.
• Pakistan Annual Household Income per Capita data is updated yearly, available from Jun 2005 to Jun 2019, with an averaged value of 479.238 USD.
• The data reached an all-time high of 650.644 USD in Jun 2016 and a record low of 290.069 USD in Jun 2005.

*This indicator will be no longer available from March 2026, 4th onwards. CEIC has a plan to remove the non-standard frequency indicator after the standard frequency indicator has been added and be available on this table. CEIC calculates Annual Household Income per Capita from annual Monthly Average Household Income multiplied by 12 and annual Average Household Size and converts it into USD. The Pakistan Bureau of Statistics provides Average Household Income in local currency and Average Household Size. The State Bank of Pakistan average market exchange rate is used for currency conversions. Household Income per Capita is in annual frequency, ending in June of each year.

Pakistan Average Monthly Income: Household: Rural data was reported at 30,110.000 PKR in 2016. This records an increase from the previous number of 26,452.000 PKR for 2014. Pakistan Average Monthly Income: Household: Rural data is updated yearly, averaging 18,712.700 PKR from Jun 2005 (Median) to 2016, with 7 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 30,110.000 PKR in 2016 and a record low of 7,929.000 PKR in 2005. Pakistan Average Monthly Income: Household: Rural data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Pakistan Bureau of Statistics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Pakistan – Table PK.H006: Household Integrated Economic Survey: Average Monthly Income: Household.

Pakistan Average Monthly Income: Household data was reported at 41,545.000 PKR in 2019. This records an increase from the previous number of 35,662.000 PKR for 2016. Pakistan Average Monthly Income: Household data is updated yearly, averaging 23,732.135 PKR from Jun 2005 (Median) to 2019, with 8 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 41,545.000 PKR in 2019 and a record low of 9,685.000 PKR in 2005. Pakistan Average Monthly Income: Household data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Pakistan Bureau of Statistics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Pakistan – Table PK.H006: Household Integrated Economic Survey: Average Monthly Income: Household.

Pakistan Average Monthly Wages data was reported at 39,042.000 PKR in 2025. This records an increase from the previous number of 24,028.000 PKR for 2021. Pakistan Average Monthly Wages data is updated yearly, averaging 13,155.000 PKR from Jun 2008 (Median) to 2025, with 11 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 39,042.000 PKR in 2025 and a record low of 6,612.000 PKR in 2008. Pakistan Average Monthly Wages data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Pakistan Bureau of Statistics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Pakistan – Table PK.G: Average Monthly Wages: by Industry. No data for 2016-2017 as per source. Labour Force Survey has not been conducted for these two years due to Population Census.

Key information about Pakistan Monthly Earnings

• Pakistan Monthly Earnings stood at 150 USD in Jun 2021, compared with the previous figure of 157 USD in Jun 2019
• Pakistan Monthly Earnings data is updated yearly, available from Jun 2008 to Jun 2021, with an average number of 125 USD
• The data reached the an all-time high of 171 USD in Jun 2018 and a record low of 97 USD in Jun 2009

*This indicator will be no longer available from March 2026, 4th onwards. CEIC has a plan to remove the non-standard frequency indicator after the standard frequency indicator has been added and be available on this table. CEIC converts Monthly Earnings into USD. The Pakistan Bureau of Statistics provides Average Monthly Earnings in local currency. The International Monetary Fund average market exchange rate is used for currency conversions. Monthly Earnings are in annual frequency, ending in June of each year.


Further information about Pakistan Monthly Earnings

• In the latest reports, Pakistan Population reached 242 million people in Jun 2023
• Unemployment Rate of Pakistan increased to 7 % in Jun 2025
• The country's Labour Force Participation Rate increased to 32 % in Dec 2021

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This graph shows average wages around the world in 2012 as calculated by purchasing power parity. In 2012 the highest average wage was earned in Luxembourg at 4,089 purchasing power parity dollars. Wages and salaries Wages and salaries in the United States have increased during the last decades. The median weekly earnings of a full-time wage and salary worker were about 241 U.S. dollars in 1979 and shifted up to 768 U.S. dollars in 2012.

The median earnings of U.S. full-time wage and salary workers vary across their educational attainment. The highest paid workers are those who hold a bachelor’s degree, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The U.S. federal government specified minimum wage laws for workers in the United States, which say that workers must be paid no less than the current federal minimum wage. The minimum wage was set at 7.25 U.S. dollars per hour by federal law. The actual minimum wage varies from state to state, as some states have additional minimum wage laws.

For instance, the minimum wage in Washington was around 9.04 U.S. dollars per hour, while the worst minimum wage can be found in Georgia, where workers earn at least 5.15 U.S. dollars per hour. No minimum wages can be found in Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana, South Carolina and Mississippi, as of January 1, 2012.

The number of workers paid hourly rates with earnings at or below the minimum wage in the U.S. was at its highest in the industry type of leisure and hospitality in 2013.

Recent statistics show that the share of female workers paid hourly rates at or below prevailing federal minimum wage in the United States decreased since 1979. In that year, 20.2 percent of the female wage and salary workers were paid below the federal minimum wage, while only 2.9 percent of the female workers were paid below the federal minimum wage in 2006.

Annualized average growth rate in per capita real survey mean consumption or income, total population (%) in Pakistan was reported at 1.25 % in 2018, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. Pakistan - Annualized average growth rate in per capita real survey mean consumption or income, total population - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on October of 2025.

The Gross Domestic Product per capita in Pakistan was last recorded at 1643.68 US dollars in 2024. The GDP per Capita in Pakistan is equivalent to 13 percent of the world's average. This dataset provides - Pakistan GDP per capita - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

Pakistan Average Monthly Income: Household: Urban data was reported at 45,283.000 PKR in 2016. This records an increase from the previous number of 38,923.000 PKR for 2014. Pakistan Average Monthly Income: Household: Urban data is updated yearly, averaging 27,663.810 PKR from Jun 2005 (Median) to 2016, with 7 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 45,283.000 PKR in 2016 and a record low of 13,371.000 PKR in 2005. Pakistan Average Monthly Income: Household: Urban data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Pakistan Bureau of Statistics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Pakistan – Table PK.H006: Household Integrated Economic Survey: Average Monthly Income: Household.

Pakistan: Income, profits, and capital gains taxes: percent of revenue: The latest value from 2000 is 19.03 percent, a decline from 22.69 percent in 1999. In comparison, the world average is 22.88 percent, based on data from 85 countries. Historically, the average for Pakistan from 1973 to 2000 is 13.65 percent. The minimum value, 8.99 percent, was reached in 1989 while the maximum of 22.69 percent was recorded in 1999.

Minimum Wages in Pakistan remained unchanged at 37000 PKR/Month in 2025 from 37000 PKR/Month in 2024. This dataset includes a chart with historical data for Pakistan Minimum Wages.

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Pakistan Average Monthly Wages: Female data was reported at 9,760.000 PKR in 2015. This records an increase from the previous number of 8,228.000 PKR for 2014. Pakistan Average Monthly Wages: Female data is updated yearly, averaging 6,422.000 PKR from Jun 2008 (Median) to 2015, with 7 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 9,760.000 PKR in 2015 and a record low of 3,853.000 PKR in 2008. Pakistan Average Monthly Wages: Female data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Pakistan Bureau of Statistics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Pakistan – Table PK.G004: Average Monthly Wages: By Industry.

Pakistan PK: Income Share Held by Highest 10% data was reported at 28.900 % in 2015. This records an increase from the previous number of 26.000 % for 2013. Pakistan PK: Income Share Held by Highest 10% data is updated yearly, averaging 27.100 % from Dec 1987 (Median) to 2015, with 12 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 28.900 % in 2015 and a record low of 25.200 % in 1996. Pakistan PK: Income Share Held by Highest 10% data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Pakistan – Table PK.World Bank.WDI: Poverty. Percentage share of income or consumption is the share that accrues to subgroups of population indicated by deciles or quintiles.; ; World Bank, Development Research Group. Data are based on primary household survey data obtained from government statistical agencies and World Bank country departments. Data for high-income economies are from the Luxembourg Income Study database. For more information and methodology, please see PovcalNet (http://iresearch.worldbank.org/PovcalNet/index.htm).; ; The World Bank’s internationally comparable poverty monitoring database now draws on income or detailed consumption data from more than one thousand six hundred household surveys across 164 countries in six regions and 25 other high income countries (industrialized economies). While income distribution data are published for all countries with data available, poverty data are published for low- and middle-income countries and countries eligible to receive loans from the World Bank (such as Chile) and recently graduated countries (such as Estonia) only. See PovcalNet (http://iresearch.worldbank.org/PovcalNet/WhatIsNew.aspx) for definitions of geographical regions and industrialized countries.

Pakistan PK: Survey Mean Consumption or Income per Capita: Bottom 40% of Population: Annualized Average Growth Rate data was reported at 2.820 % in 2013. Pakistan PK: Survey Mean Consumption or Income per Capita: Bottom 40% of Population: Annualized Average Growth Rate data is updated yearly, averaging 2.820 % from Dec 2013 (Median) to 2013, with 1 observations. Pakistan PK: Survey Mean Consumption or Income per Capita: Bottom 40% of Population: Annualized Average Growth Rate data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Pakistan – Table PK.World Bank: Poverty. The growth rate in the welfare aggregate of the bottom 40% is computed as the annualized average growth rate in per capita real consumption or income of the bottom 40% of the population in the income distribution in a country from household surveys over a roughly 5-year period. Mean per capita real consumption or income is measured at 2011 Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) using the PovcalNet (http://iresearch.worldbank.org/PovcalNet). For some countries means are not reported due to grouped and/or confidential data. The annualized growth rate is computed as (Mean in final year/Mean in initial year)^(1/(Final year - Initial year)) - 1. The reference year is the year in which the underlying household survey data was collected. In cases for which the data collection period bridged two calendar years, the first year in which data were collected is reported. The initial year refers to the nearest survey collected 5 years before the most recent survey available, only surveys collected between 3 and 7 years before the most recent survey are considered. The final year refers to the most recent survey available between 2011 and 2015. Growth rates for Iraq are based on survey means of 2005 PPP$. The coverage and quality of the 2011 PPP price data for Iraq and most other North African and Middle Eastern countries were hindered by the exceptional period of instability they faced at the time of the 2011 exercise of the International Comparison Program. See PovcalNet for detailed explanations.; ; World Bank, Global Database of Shared Prosperity (GDSP) circa 2010-2015 (http://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/poverty/brief/global-database-of-shared-prosperity).; ; The comparability of welfare aggregates (consumption or income) for the chosen years T0 and T1 is assessed for every country. If comparability across the two surveys is a major concern for a country, the selection criteria are re-applied to select the next best survey year(s). Annualized growth rates are calculated between the survey years, using a compound growth formula. The survey years defining the period for which growth rates are calculated and the type of welfare aggregate used to calculate the growth rates are noted in the footnotes.

Pakistan Household Income & Exp: Urban: Disposable Income per Household data was reported at 45,200.730 PKR in 2016. This records an increase from the previous number of 38,817.640 PKR for 2014. Pakistan Household Income & Exp: Urban: Disposable Income per Household data is updated yearly, averaging 27,596.380 PKR from Jun 2002 (Median) to 2016, with 7 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 45,200.730 PKR in 2016 and a record low of 9,848.460 PKR in 2002. Pakistan Household Income & Exp: Urban: Disposable Income per Household data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Pakistan Bureau of Statistics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Pakistan – Table PK.H011: Household Integrated Economic Survey: Household Income and Expenditure.

Pakistan PK: Survey Mean Consumption or Income per Capita: Total Population: Annualized Average Growth Rate data was reported at 4.250 % in 2015. Pakistan PK: Survey Mean Consumption or Income per Capita: Total Population: Annualized Average Growth Rate data is updated yearly, averaging 4.250 % from Dec 2015 (Median) to 2015, with 1 observations. Pakistan PK: Survey Mean Consumption or Income per Capita: Total Population: Annualized Average Growth Rate data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Pakistan – Table PK.World Bank.WDI: Poverty. The growth rate in the welfare aggregate of the total population is computed as the annualized average growth rate in per capita real consumption or income of the total population in the income distribution in a country from household surveys over a roughly 5-year period. Mean per capita real consumption or income is measured at 2011 Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) using the PovcalNet (http://iresearch.worldbank.org/PovcalNet). For some countries means are not reported due to grouped and/or confidential data. The annualized growth rate is computed as (Mean in final year/Mean in initial year)^(1/(Final year - Initial year)) - 1. The reference year is the year in which the underlying household survey data was collected. In cases for which the data collection period bridged two calendar years, the first year in which data were collected is reported. The initial year refers to the nearest survey collected 5 years before the most recent survey available, only surveys collected between 3 and 7 years before the most recent survey are considered. The final year refers to the most recent survey available between 2011 and 2015. Growth rates for Iraq are based on survey means of 2005 PPP$. The coverage and quality of the 2011 PPP price data for Iraq and most other North African and Middle Eastern countries were hindered by the exceptional period of instability they faced at the time of the 2011 exercise of the International Comparison Program. See PovcalNet for detailed explanations.; ; World Bank, Global Database of Shared Prosperity (GDSP) circa 2010-2015 (http://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/poverty/brief/global-database-of-shared-prosperity).; ; The comparability of welfare aggregates (consumption or income) for the chosen years T0 and T1 is assessed for every country. If comparability across the two surveys is a major concern for a country, the selection criteria are re-applied to select the next best survey year(s). Annualized growth rates are calculated between the survey years, using a compound growth formula. The survey years defining the period for which growth rates are calculated and the type of welfare aggregate used to calculate the growth rates are noted in the footnotes.

Pakistan Household Income & Exp: Rural: Exp data was reported at 27,413.510 PKR in 2016. This records an increase from the previous number of 24,094.030 PKR for 2014. Pakistan Household Income & Exp: Rural: Exp data is updated yearly, averaging 16,918.750 PKR from Jun 2002 (Median) to 2016, with 7 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 27,413.510 PKR in 2016 and a record low of 5,766.000 PKR in 2002. Pakistan Household Income & Exp: Rural: Exp data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Pakistan Bureau of Statistics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Pakistan – Table PK.H011: Household Integrated Economic Survey: Household Income and Expenditure.

Pakistan Household Income & Exp: Disposable Income per Household data was reported at 35,585.430 PKR in 2016. This records an increase from the previous number of 30,870.050 PKR for 2014. Pakistan Household Income & Exp: Disposable Income per Household data is updated yearly, averaging 21,721.460 PKR from Jun 2002 (Median) to 2016, with 7 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 35,585.430 PKR in 2016 and a record low of 7,140.590 PKR in 2002. Pakistan Household Income & Exp: Disposable Income per Household data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Pakistan Bureau of Statistics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Pakistan – Table PK.H011: Household Integrated Economic Survey: Household Income and Expenditure.