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title: "What Is a Good Salary in Burundi? — Geo-Parity"
description: "Median wage in Burundi ≈ $10/mo; top 10% above $29/mo, minimum none (collective bargaining). Full local wage ladder from World Bank data."
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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](https://geo-parity.com/wage-bands/?country=BI).

## Countries with similar median pay

- [🇲🇿 Mozambique](https://geo-parity.com/wage-bands/mozambique/) — median $19/mo
- [🇲🇬 Madagascar](https://geo-parity.com/wage-bands/madagascar/) — median $22/mo
- [🇨🇫 Central African Republic](https://geo-parity.com/wage-bands/central-african-republic/) — median $24/mo
- [🇲🇼 Malawi](https://geo-parity.com/wage-bands/malawi/) — median $32/mo

See also: [what everyday life costs in Burundi](https://geo-parity.com/ppp/burundi/)

## 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.

Log-normal model from World Bank data — estimates for benchmarking, not payroll data. Agents: GET /api/wage-bands.json?country=BI.

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