Where does my household's income sit?
Enter your household's income after tax and who lives there. Incomes are adjusted for household size, so a couple with children can be compared with someone living alone.
The spread of incomes
Income at each tenth of people, year to June 2025
Household disposable income adjusted for household size (equivalised), before housing costs.
Each fifth's share of all income
Median household income over time
Each bar splits the people in a group across the five income fifths, lowest on the left. If income didn't depend on the group, every segment would be 20%.
About these numbers
Equivalised income divides a household's disposable (after-tax) income by an equivalence scale: 1 for the first person, 0.5 for each other person aged 14 or over, and 0.3 for each child under 14 (the modified OECD scale). Everyone in the household is given that income.
Percentiles rank people, not households. Your position is estimated by interpolating between the published 10th, 20th … 90th percentiles, so it's approximate; outside the 10th to 90th it's shown as a range.
After housing costs subtracts rent or mortgage payments, rates and building insurance before equivalising.
The survey changed: from 2025 the figures come from the Household Income and Living Survey, which replaced the Household Economic Survey. Stats NZ has linked the series, but small breaks are possible.
Source: Stats NZ Household income and housing cost statistics, Year ended June 2025.