how much
do you make?

the numbers aren't mine. i rank your gross income — converted to US dollars at market exchange rates — against everyone's, using World Bank household survey data, not tax filings. here's the catch:

• it's an estimate off household surveys — not a pay-stub leaderboard.
• it's your salary in dollars at exchange rates, not cost-of-living — it doesn't care that the same dollar stretches further in some countries.
• you typed gross; loads of countries' surveys are after-tax or spending, so your rank leans flattering — biased up, never down.
• it's you, one person, ranked against data measured per-person across whole households — another nudge up.
• the denominator is everyone alive — kids, retirees, the jobless, people who never file tax. that's why you land higher than you'd guess: it's the top X% of humans, not of earners.
• the income data is World Bank surveys (2021–24), bumped to today's prices and exchange rates. close, but a 2026 salary still runs a little ahead of it.
• past the top 1%, surveys stop catching the rich, so that stretch is a model (shaped to WID.world's top incomes), not a measurement — the higher you climb, the shakier it gets.
• your income never leaves this device. none of it is logged.

Source

World Bank PIP, at market FX

Underlying data

cross-checked vs OWID & GWWC

Extreme top tail (> top 1%)

shaped to WID.world top incomes

Famous names (the climb)

Forbes earnings & wealth growth · est.

the famous folks up top are just a fun yardstick. for the creator/athlete/entertainer it's their yearly earnings ÷ 365. for the billionaires it's how much their net worth grew in a year ÷ 365 (paper gains, not a paycheck... swings hard, sometimes negative). rough ballparks, not pay stubs.

check it yourself: World Bank PIP · Our World in Data · Giving What We Can · Forbes