Chile
Latest Average Wage
+6.1% · 5 years
$40,626
Country Comparison
Chile vs United Kingdom
Compare average wages, long-term wage changes and eight consumer price categories using OECD data.
At a Glance
Chile
vs
United Kingdom
$40,6262023
Latest Average Wage
United Kingdom +63.2%
(vs Chile)
$66,2992025
+6.1%2023
5-Year Wage Change
Chile +5.0 pts
(vs United Kingdom)
+1.2%2025
−6.1%2023
10-Year Wage Change
United Kingdom +9.4 pts
(vs Chile)
+3.3%2025
42.92024
Overall Price Level
United Kingdom +41.4 index points
(vs Chile)
84.32024
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
United Kingdom
Latest Average Wage
+1.2% · 5 years
$66,299
Wage Milestones
Chile
10 Years Ago
$43,267 (2013)
Historical Peak
$45,670 (2016)
Latest Wage
$40,626 (2023)
United Kingdom
10 Years Ago
$64,199 (2015)
Historical Peak
$66,480 (2019)
Latest Wage
$66,299 (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)United Kingdom (GBR)
Overall
−41.4 index points
100
42.9vs84.3
Food
−0.3 index points
100
84.8vs85.1
Clothing
−1.4 index points
100
77.5vs78.9
Housing
−65.8 index points
100
29.6vs95.4
Health
−46.3 index points
100
25.8vs72.1
Transport
−44.2 index points
100
66.8vs111
Recreation
−29.5 index points
100
60.7vs90.2
Restaurants & Accommodation
−26.1 index points
100
61.1vs87.2
What Stands Out
01
Latest Wage Gap
United Kingdom's latest average wage is $66,299 for 2025, about 63.2% higher than Chile's $40,626 for 2023 — a percentage worked out directly from the two reported figures. Per year, that works out to roughly $25,673 on the shared purchasing-power basis. The two figures come from different reference years.
02
Stronger Recent Trend
On the latest one-year change, Chile shows the stronger movement at +1.3%, against +0.7% for United Kingdom. The five-year horizon keeps the same ordering: +6.1% against +1.2%. Both percentages are real, PPP-adjusted changes from the reported wage series.
03
Largest Price Gap
Housing shows the widest price gap of the comparable categories in 2024: 29.6 for Chile against 95.4 for United Kingdom. That is a separation of 65.8 index points on the US=100 scale, with United Kingdom on the higher side and Chile on the lower one. Index points are not percentages; the two scales answer different questions.
04
Closest Price Category
The closest category is Food: Chile reads 84.8 and United Kingdom 85.1 for 2024 — effectively the same relative price level on the US=100 scale. The next closest is Clothing at 1.4 index points apart. A gap this small leaves the category effectively tied on the shared US=100 scale.
Understanding the Comparison
Wage Position
Few pairings separate this cleanly — United Kingdom's latest average wage of $66,299 for 2025 stands well above Chile's $40,626 for 2023. The higher figure exceeds the lower one by 63.2% in relative terms — a percentage calculated from the two reported values — or roughly $25,673 a year. No extra conversion is needed here: each figure is already a purchasing-power-adjusted annual amount in constant prices. For scale, neither series has moved by that much within any single reported year, so the gap is structural rather than the product of one unusual observation. Over ten years Chile recorded −6.1% against United Kingdom's +3.3%, so the current levels were reached on visibly different long-term paths.
Wage Direction
The five-year direction is shared here: both series rise, with different momentum on each side. Chile is partway through a recovery: the latest year added +1.3%, though the level remains 11.1% below its peak. United Kingdom stands just below its historical high of $66,480 in 2019, only 0.3% away, with a ten-year change of +3.3%. The shared direction still leaves room for different speeds: +6.1% for Chile against +1.2% for United Kingdom, so the distance between the two levels keeps shifting. All changes here are measured in real, PPP-adjusted terms, so they describe purchasing-power movement rather than nominal pay increases.
Price Profile
Chile's overall consumer price level for 2024 reads 42.9, and United Kingdom's reads 84.3, each measured against the United States reference of 100. United Kingdom reads higher in 7 of the 8 comparable categories, so the price profile leans consistently to one side. The widest separation is in Housing: 29.6 for Chile against 95.4 for United Kingdom, a gap of 65.8 index points. At the other end, Food brings the two closest — 84.8 versus 85.1, a gap of just 0.3 index points. Relative to the US benchmark, Chile reads above 100 in 0 of its 8 reported categories, and United Kingdom in 1 of its 8.
Wage and price data should not be combined into a verdict on which country is better to live in.
