What is a top 10% salary in Syria?

Roughly $188/month ($2,256/year) puts you in the top 10%; the top 1% starts near $355/month.

What is the minimum wage in Syria?

About $11/month. ILOSTAT statutory monthly minimum wage, 2020 (USD).

How are these Syria salary figures calculated?

A log-normal wage model calibrated from World Bank GNI per capita ($720, 2022) and the Gini index (26.4, consumption-based — widened to 33.4 income-equivalent). Estimates for benchmarking, not payroll data.

Are the dollar figures for Syria reliable?

Exchange regime: dual rate. The World Bank official-rate series ends in 2022 at 2,506 pounds per dollar; the Central Bank unified its bulletins on 23 March 2025 inside a +/-5% band (widened to +/-7% in August) at roughly 11,000-15,000, and a black-market rate persists beside it. 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 · Syria

What is a good salary in 🇸🇾 Syria (Damascus)?

The median is about $86/month; top-10% earners clear $188/month.

The local wage ladder

Band	Monthly	Annual	Local currency
Survival floorsingle-person essentials	$258	$3,096	646,483 SYP/mo
Statutory minimumILOSTAT statutory monthly minimum wage, 2020 (USD).	$11	$132	27,563 SYP/mo
Median (p50)typical earner	$86	$1,032	215,494 SYP/mo
Comfortable (p75)upper-middle	$130	$1,560	325,747 SYP/mo
Top 10% (p90)high earner	$188	$2,256	471,080 SYP/mo
Top 1% (p99)elite	$355	$4,260	889,540 SYP/mo

Modelled from World Bank GNI $720 (2022) and Gini 26.4 (consumption-based, widened to 33.4). Check where you stand in the interactive benchmarker.

Countries with similar median pay

🇹🇱 East Timor — median $85/mo
🇨🇲 Cameroon — median $88/mo
🇲🇲 Myanmar — median $89/mo
🇸🇩 Sudan — median $89/mo

Frequently asked questions

What is a good salary in Syria?: The median wage is about $86/month ($1,032/year). A "comfortable" p75 salary is around $130/month, and you'd be a top-10% earner above $188/month.
What is a top 10% salary in Syria?: Roughly $188/month ($2,256/year) puts you in the top 10%; the top 1% starts near $355/month.
What is the minimum wage in Syria?: About $11/month. ILOSTAT statutory monthly minimum wage, 2020 (USD).
How are these Syria salary figures calculated?: A log-normal wage model calibrated from World Bank GNI per capita ($720, 2022) and the Gini index (26.4, consumption-based — widened to 33.4 income-equivalent). Estimates for benchmarking, not payroll data.
Are the dollar figures for Syria reliable?: Exchange regime: dual rate. The World Bank official-rate series ends in 2022 at 2,506 pounds per dollar; the Central Bank unified its bulletins on 23 March 2025 inside a +/-5% band (widened to +/-7% in August) at roughly 11,000-15,000, and a black-market rate persists beside it. 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.