Purchasing Power Parity · Bahamas
Cost of living in 🇧🇸 Bahamas vs the United States
Bahamas has a US-relative price level of 0.949 (US = 1.0) — about 5% cheaper than the United States. Reference year 2025.
What US salaries are worth in Bahamas
| US income | Feels like (US-equivalent) | Cost of a US lifestyle |
|---|---|---|
| $50,000 | $52,687 | $47,450 |
| $80,000 | $84,299 | $75,920 |
| $120,000 | $126,449 | $113,880 |
| $180,000 | $189,673 | $170,820 |
| $250,000 | $263,435 | $237,250 |
“Feels like” = income ÷ price level; “cost of a US lifestyle” = income × price level. Try your own number in the interactive calculator.
How the sources compare
Each provider measures Bahamas's price level slightly differently; a tight spread means high confidence.
Consensus (median) 0.949 2025
World Bank — GDP 0.956 2024
IMF (WEO) 0.943 2025
Penn World Table 0.948 2023
World Bank — Consumption 1.107 2024
CIA Factbook (coverage) 0.958 2024
Cost of living around the world
Every country shaded by its price level relative to the US (darker = more expensive). Bahamas is outlined.
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Countries with a similar cost of living
- 🇱🇺 Luxembourg — price level 0.956
- 🇵🇼 Palau — price level 0.932
- 🇹🇻 Tuvalu — price level 0.922
- 🇻🇺 Vanuatu — price level 0.976
- 🇩🇰 Denmark — price level 0.915
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Frequently asked questions
- How expensive is Bahamas compared to the United States?
- Bahamas has a price level of 0.949 relative to the US baseline of 1.0 (about 5% cheaper than the United States), based on the median of independent votes from the World Bank/IMF (one vote — both use the official exchange rate), the Eurostat-OECD PPP programme and the Penn World Table, reference year 2025.
- What is a $100,000 salary worth in Bahamas?
- In purchasing-power terms, $100,000 stretches to about $105,374 of US-equivalent lifestyle in Bahamas; conversely, sustaining a $100,000 US lifestyle there costs about $94,900.
- Where does the Bahamas cost-of-living data come from?
- Real price-level figures from the World Bank, IMF World Economic Outlook, OECD, Eurostat and Penn World Table, blended as a per-country median of independent votes and refreshed at build time.