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El Salvador
El Salvador's public holidays is 25 days, the 2nd highest of 104. And its currency is 0.00 %, ranked 11th of 71.
Of 13 fields published for El Salvador, these two sit furthest from the middle of the atlas.
Is it expensive, or does the pay keep up?
Price level
41 % of US prices
Average monthly salary
$1,081 PPP/mo
The average employee in El Salvador earns about $1,081 a month before tax, measured in dollars adjusted for what they buy locally.
Money's value
55.20 %
100 saved in El Salvador in 2000 buys what 55 buys today — 45 % of its purchasing power is gone.
What is left after the state takes its share?
Average monthly salary
$1,081 PPP/mo
The average employee in El Salvador earns about $1,081 a month before tax, measured in dollars adjusted for what they buy locally.
Minimum wage
$760 PPP/mo
The law in El Salvador sets the floor at about $760 a month, measured in dollars adjusted for what they buy locally.
Does money in the bank keep its value?
Inflation rate
0.26 %
At 0.3 % a year, prices double in about 277 years if it holds.
Where El Salvador sits, field by field
Each dot is El Salvador’s position among every country that publishes that field. Sorted by distance from the middle, so what is unusual about the country comes first.
- Public holidays25 days2 of 104
- Currency0.00 %11 of 71
- Government debt87.20 %103 of 124
- Unemployment rate3.30 %31 of 124
- Average monthly salary$1,081 PPP/mo69 of 92
- Money's value55.20 %33 of 116
- GDP per capita$5,76790 of 127
- GDP growth3.91 %39 of 127
- Inflation rate0.26 %84 of 126
- Median salary$924 PPP/mo52 of 78
- Price level41 % of US prices52 of 125
- Minimum wage$760 PPP/mo36 of 86
- Debt per person$5,02953 of 123
- Cost of money
- Work & income
- Housing & living
- Macro
Financially nearest · computed, not curated
Fiji
avg gap 10 pp · 12 shared fields
Most separates them: unemployment — 3.30 % (El Salvador) vs 5.35 %
Jordan
avg gap 13.1 pp · 11 shared fields
Most separates them: unemployment — 3.30 % (El Salvador) vs 16.54 %
Malaysia
avg gap 15.2 pp · 10 shared fields
Most separates them: price level — 41 % of US prices (El Salvador) vs 32 % of US prices
Ecuador
avg gap 16.9 pp · 13 shared fields
Most separates them: public holidays — 25 days (El Salvador) vs 11 days
| Inflation rate | 0.26 % | ranked 84th of 126 | |
| Median salary | $924 PPP/mo | ranked 52nd of 78 | |
| Price level | 41 % of US prices | ranked 52nd of 125 | |
| Minimum wage | $760 PPP/mo | ranked 36th of 86 | |
| Debt per person | $5,029 | ranked 53rd of 123 |
✓ 13 fields published for El Salvador, every one dated and sourced · 22 not published yet
Awaiting an official source for El Salvador: mortgage rate, real policy rate, lending rate, deposit rate, savings vs inflation, bank spread, take-home pay, tax on pay, house price growth since 2015, house price growth, rent, petrol, electricity, tax wedge, minimum wage, retirement age (men), retirement age (women), average salary, median income, vat, corporate tax, top income tax.
Sources for all 13 figures
- Public holidays — Public holiday calendar (Nager.Date) · 2026
- Currency — Currency strength vs USD (own calculation from ECB reference-rate snapshots) · 2026-09-21
- Government debt — IMF World Economic Outlook (general government gross debt, % of GDP) · 2025
- Unemployment rate — World Bank open data (GDP growth, GDP/capita, unemployment, government debt) · 2025
- Average monthly salary — ILO monthly earnings of employees (EAR_EMTA mean + EAR_EMTM median) · 2025
- Money's value — Fiatmap derived metrics (own calculation from separately sourced components) · 2025
- GDP per capita — World Bank open data (GDP growth, GDP/capita, unemployment, government debt) · 2025
- GDP growth — World Bank open data (GDP growth, GDP/capita, unemployment, government debt) · 2025
- Inflation rate — Annual CPI inflation (shared satsatlas data engine: World Bank + Eurostat + SSB) · 2025
- Median salary — ILO monthly earnings of employees (EAR_EMTA mean + EAR_EMTM median) · 2025
- Price level — World Bank PPP conversion factor ÷ official exchange rate (PA.NUS.PPP, PA.NUS.FCRF) · 2025
- Minimum wage — ILO monthly earnings of employees (EAR_EMTA mean + EAR_EMTM median) · 2024
- Debt per person — Fiatmap derived metrics (own calculation from separately sourced components) · 2025
What changed
| 6 Sept 2026 | Government debt per person (USD) | 6186 → 5029 |
| 6 Sept 2026 | Government debt (% of GDP) | 107.276633162011 → 87.2 |
| 2 Aug 2026 | Median monthly earnings (USD PPP) | 843.29 → 924.25 |
| 2 Aug 2026 | Mean monthly earnings (USD PPP) | 1008.64 → 1081.45 |
| 27 Jul 2026 | Public holidays per year | 26 → 25 |