Chile
Latest Average Wage
+6.1% · 5 years
$40,626
Country Comparison
Chile vs Estonia
Compare average wages, long-term wage changes and eight consumer price categories using OECD data.
At a Glance
Chile
vs
Estonia
$40,6262023
Latest Average Wage
Estonia +1.0%
(vs Chile)
$41,0192025
+6.1%2023
5-Year Wage Change
Chile +4.6 pts
(vs Estonia)
+1.6%2025
−6.1%2023
10-Year Wage Change
Estonia +33.6 pts
(vs Chile)
+27.6%2025
42.92024
Overall Price Level
Estonia +20.7 index points
(vs Chile)
63.62024
Wages are PPP-adjusted average annual wages; price levels use the United States reference of 100. Years shown are each country's latest reported observation.
How Wages Have Changed
Follow PPP-adjusted average annual wages in constant prices across both economies.
USD PPP, constant prices · missing years shown as gaps, never interpolated
Estonia
Latest Average Wage
+1.6% · 5 years
$41,019
Wage Milestones
Chile
10 Years Ago
$43,267 (2013)
Historical Peak
$45,670 (2016)
Latest Wage
$40,626 (2023)
Estonia
10 Years Ago
$32,160 (2015)
Historical Peak
$42,741 (2021)
Latest Wage
$41,019 (2025)
Compare Everyday Price Levels
See how eight consumer price categories compare with the United States reference value of 100.
United States = 100 · Differences shown in index points
Chile (CHL)Estonia (EST)
Overall
−20.7 index points
100
42.9vs63.6
Food
−6.4 index points
100
84.8vs91.2
Clothing
−27.5 index points
100
77.5vs105
Housing
−25.3 index points
100
29.6vs54.9
Health
−15.6 index points
100
25.8vs41.4
Transport
−31.7 index points
100
66.8vs98.5
Recreation
−23.1 index points
100
60.7vs83.8
Restaurants & Accommodation
−19.6 index points
100
61.1vs80.7
What Stands Out
01
Latest Wage Gap
Estonia's latest average wage is $41,019 for 2025, about 1.0% higher than Chile's $40,626 for 2023 — computed straight from the two reported values. Per year, that works out to roughly $393 on the shared purchasing-power basis. The two figures come from different reference years.
02
Stronger Recent Trend
On the latest one-year change, Estonia shows the stronger movement at +1.4%, against +1.3% for Chile. The five-year horizon reverses the ordering — Chile at +6.1% and Estonia at +1.6% — so the latest year is not the whole story. Both percentages are real, PPP-adjusted changes from the reported wage series.
03
Largest Price Gap
Transport shows the widest price gap of the comparable categories in 2024: 66.8 for Chile against 98.5 for Estonia. Estonia sits on the higher side of that 31.7-point spread; Chile reads 31.7 index points lower on the US=100 scale. The gap is stated in index points, which are not interchangeable with percentages.
04
Closest Price Category
The closest category is Food: Chile reads 84.8 and Estonia 91.2 for 2024, just 6.4 index points apart on the US=100 scale. The next closest is Health at 15.6 index points apart. Two readings this close mean the category sits at nearly the same point of the US=100 scale for both.
Understanding the Comparison
Wage Position
Chile and Estonia report nearly the same PPP-adjusted average annual wage: $41,019 for 2025, against $40,626 for 2023. The difference is 1.0% in relative terms — a percentage calculated from the two reported values — or roughly $393 a year, which is small next to either figure. No extra conversion is needed here: each figure is already a purchasing-power-adjusted annual amount in constant prices. The reference years differ — 2023 for Chile and 2025 for Estonia — so part of the gap reflects timing rather than level, and the two records are kept separate. Over ten years Chile recorded −6.1% against Estonia's +27.6%, so the current levels were reached on visibly different long-term paths.
Wage Direction
Both wage series rise over the five-year horizon, though not at the same pace. Chile is partway through a recovery: the latest year added +1.3%, though the level remains 11.1% below its peak. Estonia is partway through a recovery: the latest year added +1.4%, though the level remains 4.0% below its peak. Chile's five-year change of +6.1% outpaces Estonia's +1.6% in magnitude, so the common direction does not mean the two levels are holding a fixed distance. Each percentage is a real, PPP-adjusted change; nominal pay movements are outside what this dataset reports.
Price Profile
Chile's overall consumer price level for 2024 reads 42.9, and Estonia's reads 63.6, each measured against the United States reference of 100. One side of this pairing dominates the price profile: Estonia sits higher in 8 of the 8 comparable categories. Transport separates the two most: Chile reads 66.8 and Estonia 98.5, 31.7 index points apart. The two sit closest in Food (84.8 versus 91.2), only 6.4 index points apart. Counted against the US reference of 100, 0 of Chile's 8 reported categories sit above the line, against 1 of Estonia's 8. These are index values for 2024, not currency amounts; categories without a reported value on either side are left out of the comparison.
Wage and price data should not be combined into a verdict on which country is better to live in.
