Geography: Canada
Age Group: All
Income Type: Individual
How this income percentile calculator works
There are a few options to compare your income percentile with this calculator. The first step is inputting your total income which will be used to compare against others. By default your income percentile is calculated against all age groups and provinces in Canada. This helps you understand where you compare when taking into consideration everyone in Canada.
Since age and location play a large role in your earning potential, this calculator allows you to compare to others within your age group as well as province to provide a more accurate representation on how your income percentile compares to that of your peers. Additionally, this calculator lets you compare individual income versus household income.
When the calculator says you fall in the 90th income percentile, this means that 90% of the population for the selected group have less income than the salary you input. Alternatively, if you wanted to know what it would take to be apart of the top 1% of income earners in Canada, this would be the income it takes to be in the 99th income percentile.
These income distributions were calculated using the 2021 census of population public use microdata files (PUMF) which contains individual responses for a sample that represents 2.7% of the Canadian population which have weightings to help represent the full dataset.
To ensure data remains anonymous in the PUMF all values for total income have been rounded to the nearest 1000. Extreme incomes representing those in the top percentiles have also been adjusted to make it impossible to identify an individual. While statcan says these procedures minimize the impact on quality, it causes the income distribution to vary slightly when compared to results relesased by statcan that use the full dataset.
How many people make $100K or more in Canada?
As of 2022 there were 4,021,030 persons with income of $100K or more and total persons with income of 29,769,800. This means that 13.51% of the population makes $100K or more.