Buenos Aires, December 20, 2025 - According to the latest data from the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INDEC), led by Marco Lavagna, an Argentine family must have monthly incomes exceeding ARS 3,624,000 to be among the top 10% of households with the greatest purchasing power in the country.
This segment brings together more than 2 million people but accounts for only 1.9% of the total family income. A key data point in the report is the median family income, which stood at ARS 800,000. This means that half of Argentine households earn incomes equal to or below this amount, highlighting the gap between the center of the distribution and the upper strata.
Inequality measured between the extremes remains high. Nevertheless, the report shows a slight annual improvement: in the third quarter of 2024, that gap was fourteen times. Similarly, the Gini coefficient—a synthetic indicator of inequality—decreased from 0.435 to 0.431, indicating a moderate reduction in income inequality.
Regarding the composition of resources, 78.2% of family income comes from labor sources, while 21.8% corresponds to non-labor income, such as pensions, social security, and transfers.
The eighth decile, in turn, covers family incomes between ARS 2,100,000 and ARS 2,650,000, with an average of ARS 2,361,192. At the opposite end of the scale is the first decile, which concentrates the 10% of households with the lowest incomes.
The ninth decile brings together households with incomes between ARS 2,650,000 and ARS 3,620,000, with an average income of ARS 3,067,163. From that floor, incomes within the top decile extend to exceptional figures, reaching up to ARS 150 million per month, reflecting strong internal heterogeneity among households with greater resources.
According to the official report, the tenth decile groups 1,015,153 households, equivalent to 10% of the total, and 3,539,176 people, representing 11.9% of the surveyed population.
The median per capita family income of the tenth decile is thirteen times higher than that of the first. The average income of this segment is ARS 5,597,559 per month, well above the general average, with a concentration of 29.9% of the country's total family income.
The comparison with the immediately lower deciles clearly exposes the distributional gap. There, family incomes range between ARS 10,000 and ARS 500,000 per month, with an average of ARS 349,654. This last component has a much greater weight in the lower deciles: in the first it represents 60.1% of the total, compared to 12.8% in the tenth.
The occupational structure also varies significantly. This is added to a persistent gender gap: men perceive average individual incomes of ARS 1,153,171, while women reach ARS 838,924.
The official data thus show a slight improvement in inequality indicators during 2025, although they confirm that the differences between the extremes of the income pyramid continue to be wide and structural within the Argentine economy. The data corresponds to the third quarter of 2025.
This threshold marks the minimum income of the tenth decile, the highest segment of the family income pyramid surveyed in the 31 main urban agglomerations. In households of the first decile, for every 100 occupied people there are 257 unoccupied, while in the tenth decile the ratio is 43 unoccupied people for every 100 with employment.
