Changes and corrections

Everything that moved numbers, added pages or fixed a mistake on the site, newest first. Model versions are documented in the methodology.

2 November 2026

Country pages rewritten so the answer comes first, with a chart that sets each country’s thresholds against the world’s and one combined list of sources.
Answer pages now say how many people earn or own more than the amount, and what the amount means for a couple sharing it.
German country pages lead with average income per year and per month, in euros and in the local currency.
Translated country pages that almost nobody looked for were removed; their addresses now lead to the English page.
Correction: the lists of countries “in the same region” at the bottom of country pages included countries from other regions. They now show only the region, with the alphabetical neighbours on a separate line.
Correction: the article on $100,000 incomes explained Norway’s high share with compressed pay scales. The real reason is the broad income measure; on Statistics Norway’s own figures about one adult in eight earns more than $100,000. The text now says so.
Correction: some article links on answer pages showed unfilled template code instead of numbers for a few days. Fixed, and the build now stops if this happens again.
Correction: most country pages listed the same source twice.

Tax by country: the tax on an average wage split into income tax, employee and employer social security for OECD countries.
New context notes for China and, in German, for India.

New page: where millionaires live, with city counts from Henley & Partners and country counts from our model, and why the two differ.
Context notes for six more country pages.

New page: tax by country, with the same salary taxed in 30 countries, VAT, corporate tax, capital taxes and the total tax burden.
Corrections after an independent fact check of that page, among them: Switzerland’s inheritance tax applies in most cantons, not all; heirs in Norway take over the original cost basis; Israel is not in the Tax Foundation’s index.
Open data: salary and tax figures as CSV.

New: salary around the world, with 2026 tax rules for 30 countries and buying power.

Open data (every threshold as CSV and JSON), the world map, the quiz and path to the top.

Model version 11: every country curve rebuilt from the World Inequality Database’s 127-percentile data (2026 update), with ECB exchange rates of 9 October 2026.
Official person-level income statistics for Sweden, Denmark, Finland, the United Kingdom and the United States, used for income ranks in those countries.
German, Spanish and French versions; data reports on the top 1% in Norway and Germany.

The site went public, with model version 10 and Statistics Norway data for Norway.

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