Salary TOP calculator
Gross salary is the wage before taxes, as stated in the employment contract. The comparison is based on Statistics Estonia data (Q2 2026).
Wage from which you belong to…
Source: Statistics Estonia (PA111, gross monthly wage deciles). The top 10%–90% thresholds are Statistics Estonia deciles; the top 5% and top 1% are an entity.ee estimate based on the shape of the top of the wage distribution. The net salary assumes a €700 tax-free allowance and a 2% funded pension.
Wage distribution in Estonia (Q2 2026)
- Median wage
- 1840 €half of employees earn less, half earn more
- Average wage
- 2243 €high wages lift the average above the median
- Top 10%
- 4038 €one in ten employees earns this much or more
- Top 1% (estimate)
- 10 335 €entity.ee estimate based on the shape of the top of the wage distribution
- Bottom 10%
- below 875 €a tenth of employees earn less
How your rank is calculated
Every quarter Statistics Estonia publishes gross monthly wage deciles: the wages below which 10%, 20% … 90% of employees earn. The calculator finds which two deciles your wage falls between and calculates your position between them.
For the top (above the 9th decile, i.e. the top 10%) Statistics Estonia does not publish finer thresholds. There we use an estimate that assumes wages at the top are distributed with the same shape as between the 8th and 9th deciles (a Pareto distribution). The top 5% and top 1% thresholds are therefore approximate.
The comparison is with employees' gross wages. Dividends, business income and other income are not included — see the article below for the distribution of income and wealth in Estonia.