Understand your income rank
Definitions, worked examples and the limits behind the numbers.
What is an income percentile?
Read a percentile as a position, not an amount or an income share.
What does top 10% income mean?
Distinguish the p90 entry threshold from the average income of the richest tenth.
What income puts you in the top 1%?
Find the p99 threshold and understand why top-one-percent figures differ between sources.
Salary vs income: what is the difference?
Why a converted pay amount is not automatically the same concept as WID national income.
Income percentile vs salary percentile
Choose the reference population that matches the comparison you need.
What is purchasing power parity (PPP)?
Understand the common purchasing-power unit behind cross-country comparisons.
Why 100,000 means different things across countries
Separate currency units, purchasing power and rank before comparing identical numbers.
How RankMyIncome calculates your rank
Follow the data, conversion, interpolation and tier steps shared by every tool.
How global income percentiles work
Read the WO-PPP world curve without averaging country rankings.
Why country rank and global rank are different
Two different reference distributions can give valid but very different positions.