Purchasing Power Parity · Russia
Cost of living in 🇷🇺 Russia vs the United States
Russia has a US-relative price level of 0.316 (US = 1.0) — about 68% cheaper than the United States. Reference year 2024.
What US salaries are worth in Russia
| US income | Feels like (US-equivalent) | Cost of a US lifestyle |
|---|---|---|
| $50,000 | $158,228 | $15,800 |
| $80,000 | $253,165 | $25,280 |
| $120,000 | $379,747 | $37,920 |
| $180,000 | $569,620 | $56,880 |
| $250,000 | $791,139 | $79,000 |
“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 Russia's price level slightly differently; a tight spread means high confidence.
Consensus (median) 0.316 2024
World Bank — GDP 0.314 2024
IMF (WEO) 0.314 2024
Penn World Table 0.318 2023
World Bank — Consumption 0.314 2024
Cost of living around the world
Every country shaded by its price level relative to the US (darker = more expensive). Russia is outlined.
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Countries with a similar cost of living
- 🇬🇪 Georgia — price level 0.319
- 🇲🇷 Mauritania — price level 0.319
- 🇸🇷 Suriname — price level 0.322
- 🇰🇪 Kenya — price level 0.323
- 🇲🇱 Mali — price level 0.323
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Frequently asked questions
- How expensive is Russia compared to the United States?
- Russia has a price level of 0.316 relative to the US baseline of 1.0 (about 68% 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 2024.
- What is a $100,000 salary worth in Russia?
- In purchasing-power terms, $100,000 stretches to about $316,456 of US-equivalent lifestyle in Russia; conversely, sustaining a $100,000 US lifestyle there costs about $31,600.
- Where does the Russia 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.