Purchasing Power Parity · Haiti
Cost of living in 🇭🇹 Haiti vs the United States
Haiti has a US-relative price level of 0.86 (US = 1.0) — about 14% cheaper than the United States. Reference year 2025.
What US salaries are worth in Haiti
| US income | Feels like (US-equivalent) | Cost of a US lifestyle |
|---|---|---|
| $50,000 | $58,140 | $43,000 |
| $80,000 | $93,023 | $68,800 |
| $120,000 | $139,535 | $103,200 |
| $180,000 | $209,302 | $154,800 |
| $250,000 | $290,698 | $215,000 |
“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 Haiti's price level slightly differently; a tight spread means high confidence.
These sources disagree — the figure above is the World Bank figure alone, decided by a person, not a blend.
Exchange regime: managed float. The BRH reference rate (130.49 gourdes per dollar on 9 September 2026) is derived from the previous day's formal and informal market transactions, and the World Bank official rate matches it (130.63 in 2025); the formal-informal spread is under 5%. Penn World Table's 0.518 is a 2023 figure at 141 gourdes with two further years of ~30% inflation to come, which accounts for the gap to the World Bank's 0.86 (2025). A vintage difference, not a regime one.
Checked 2026-09-09 against the sources named in the register.
Cost of living around the world
Every country shaded by its price level relative to the US (darker = more expensive). Haiti is outlined.
Countries with a similar cost of living
- 🇳🇿 New Zealand — price level 0.863
- 🇫🇮 Finland — price level 0.852
- 🇳🇴 Norway — price level 0.878
- 🇸🇪 Sweden — price level 0.841
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom — price level 0.881
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Frequently asked questions
- How expensive is Haiti compared to the United States?
- Haiti has a price level of 0.86 relative to the US baseline of 1.0 (about 14% cheaper than the United States), based on the World Bank figure alone — the sources disagree and a curated exchange-regime register names the one to believe, reference year 2025.
- What is a $100,000 salary worth in Haiti?
- In purchasing-power terms, $100,000 stretches to about $116,279 of US-equivalent lifestyle in Haiti; conversely, sustaining a $100,000 US lifestyle there costs about $86,000.
- Where does the Haiti cost-of-living data come from?
- Real price-level figures from the World Bank, IMF World Economic Outlook, OECD, Eurostat and Penn World Table, refreshed at build time. For Haiti the sources disagree (managed float): The BRH reference rate (130.49 gourdes per dollar on 9 September 2026) is derived from the previous day's formal and informal market transactions, and the World Bank official rate matches it (130.63 in 2025); the formal-informal spread is under 5%. Penn World Table's 0.518 is a 2023 figure at 141 gourdes with two further years of ~30% inflation to come, which accounts for the gap to the World Bank's 0.86 (2025). A vintage difference, not a regime one.