What is a top 10% salary in Burundi?

Roughly $29/month ($348/year) puts you in the top 10%; the top 1% starts near $70/month.

What is the minimum wage in Burundi?

A minimum-wage figure for Burundi is not available here — No minimum-wage figure available: not published by ILOSTAT for this country and not curated.

How are these Burundi salary figures calculated?

A log-normal wage model calibrated from World Bank GNI per capita ($240, 2025) and the Gini index (37.5, consumption-based — widened to 44.5 income-equivalent). Estimates for benchmarking, not payroll data.

Are the dollar figures for Burundi reliable?

Exchange regime: parallel market. The IMF's ECF programme lists unification of the official and parallel markets as a key commitment: a 38% official devaluation on 4 May 2023 cut the parallel premium to about 40%, and it has since widened beyond 55%. Dollar figures here are converted by the World Bank (Atlas method, which uses an alternative conversion factor where the official rate is unrepresentative), not at the official rate; treat them as approximate.

Local Salaries · Burundi

What is a good salary in 🇧🇮 Burundi (Bujumbura)?

The median is about $10/month; top-10% earners clear $29/month.

The local wage ladder

Band	Monthly	Annual	Local currency
Survival floorsingle-person essentials	$478	$5,736	1,406,820 BIF/mo
Median (p50)typical earner	$10	$120	29,431 BIF/mo
Comfortable (p75)upper-middle	$18	$216	52,976 BIF/mo
Top 10% (p90)high earner	$29	$348	85,351 BIF/mo
Top 1% (p99)elite	$70	$840	206,020 BIF/mo

Modelled from World Bank GNI $240 (2025) and Gini 37.5 (consumption-based, widened to 44.5). Check where you stand in the interactive benchmarker.

Countries with similar median pay

🇲🇿 Mozambique — median $19/mo
🇲🇬 Madagascar — median $22/mo
🇨🇫 Central African Republic — median $24/mo
🇲🇼 Malawi — median $32/mo

Frequently asked questions

What is a good salary in Burundi?: The median wage is about $10/month ($120/year). A "comfortable" p75 salary is around $18/month, and you'd be a top-10% earner above $29/month.
What is a top 10% salary in Burundi?: Roughly $29/month ($348/year) puts you in the top 10%; the top 1% starts near $70/month.
What is the minimum wage in Burundi?: A minimum-wage figure for Burundi is not available here — No minimum-wage figure available: not published by ILOSTAT for this country and not curated.
How are these Burundi salary figures calculated?: A log-normal wage model calibrated from World Bank GNI per capita ($240, 2025) and the Gini index (37.5, consumption-based — widened to 44.5 income-equivalent). Estimates for benchmarking, not payroll data.
Are the dollar figures for Burundi reliable?: Exchange regime: parallel market. The IMF's ECF programme lists unification of the official and parallel markets as a key commitment: a 38% official devaluation on 4 May 2023 cut the parallel premium to about 40%, and it has since widened beyond 55%. Dollar figures here are converted by the World Bank (Atlas method, which uses an alternative conversion factor where the official rate is unrepresentative), not at the official rate; treat them as approximate.