Chile income tax rates, 2025
On the Chilean average wage of 14,201,852 CLP, the OECD publishes an average income tax rate of 0.1% and an average employee social security rate of 7.0%, 7.1% between them, leaving net income of 13,191,889 CLP.
This page is a reference, not a calculator
Every figure on it is published by the OECD and cited to the row it came from. This site does not compute Chile, because its own arithmetic on the Chilean schedule misses the published outcome by 0.75 percentage points against a tolerance of half a point, and a number wrong by that much still looks right.
Written and maintained by Nkosi Ndwandwe, who is not a qualified tax adviser. Every figure here was read from its source on 06 September 2026, which is the date this page reports as its last modification.
What is actually taken, at three incomes
The OECD models a single person with no children and no other income at three multiples of the Chilean average wage, and publishes what that person actually pays. These are outcomes rather than statutory rates: everything taken, divided by everything earned.
| Income level | Gross | Income tax | Employee social security | Combined | Net income | On the next unit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 67% of the average wage | 9,515,241 CLP | 0.0% | 7.0% | 7.0% | 8,849,174 CLP | 7.0% |
| the average wage | 14,201,852 CLP | 0.1% | 7.0% | 7.1% | 13,191,889 CLP | 10.3% |
| 167% of the average wage | 23,717,093 CLP | 1.4% | 7.0% | 8.4% | 21,731,818 CLP | 10.3% |
The same three incomes, in money
The rates above are what the OECD publishes. The amounts below are those rates applied to the gross earnings it publishes alongside them, which is arithmetic rather than a further source, and it is separated from the table above so that nothing computed here can be mistaken for something published. Rounding means the parts may miss the total by a unit.
| Income level | Gross | Income tax | Employee social security | Total taken | Net |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 67% of the average wage | 9,515,241 CLP | 0 CLP | 666,067 CLP | 666,067 CLP | 8,849,174 CLP |
| the average wage | 14,201,852 CLP | 15,833 CLP | 994,130 CLP | 1,009,963 CLP | 13,191,889 CLP |
| 167% of the average wage | 23,717,093 CLP | 325,079 CLP | 1,660,197 CLP | 1,985,275 CLP | 21,731,818 CLP |
Read the middle row across: someone on the Chilean average wage of 14,201,852 CLP keeps 13,191,889 CLP of it, and 1,009,963 CLP is taken. At 67% of the average wage the amount taken is 666,067 CLP and at 167% it is 1,985,275 CLP, so an income two and a half times larger carries a tax bill 3.0 times larger.
The two numbers that decide different things
On the Chilean average wage the average rate is 7.1% and the marginal rate is 10.3%. Those answer different questions and confusing them is the commonest mistake made with a table like this one. The average rate tells you what your year costs. The marginal rate, 3.1 percentage points higher here, tells you what the next unit of income costs, which is the number that decides whether a rise, a bonus or extra hours are worth taking.
Across the range the OECD publishes, the combined rate moves from 7.0% at 67% of the average wage to 8.4% at 167%, a spread of 1.4 percentage points over an income range of two and a half times. That is a flat profile by international standards: somebody earning well above the average wage keeps close to the same share as somebody earning well below it.
Nothing above includes what your employer pays. In Chile employer social security contributions run at 0.4% of gross earnings, against 7.0% taken from you. Unusually, the employee side is the larger of the two, by 6.6 percentage points. More of the Chilean contribution burden is visible on the payslip than in most countries.
The statutory schedule, as published
In 2025 Chile has 8 central government bands, running from 0.00% to 40.00%, with the second rate starting at 11,143,170 CLP. It is shown as a table and nothing more. Set that top figure of 40.00% against the 0.1% actually taken from someone on the average wage, and the distance between a band rate and an average rate is the whole reason the first table exists.
| Band | From | To | Rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Band 1 | 0 CLP | 11,143,170 CLP | 0.00% |
| Band 2 | 11,143,170 CLP | 24,762,600 CLP | 4.00% |
| Band 3 | 24,762,600 CLP | 41,271,000 CLP | 8.00% |
| Band 4 | 41,271,000 CLP | 57,779,400 CLP | 13.50% |
| Band 5 | 57,779,400 CLP | 74,287,800 CLP | 23.00% |
| Band 6 | 74,287,800 CLP | 99,050,400 CLP | 30.40% |
| Band 7 | 99,050,400 CLP | 255,880,200 CLP | 35.00% |
| Band 8 | 255,880,200 CLP | and above | 40.00% |
Central government only, and what that leaves out is set out once rather than repeated on each of these pages.
Why Chile has no calculator here
For Chile the closest reading we could construct missed by 0.75 percentage points, assembling the schedule as: allowance and ladder only. Several other readings were tried and every one of them was further away. On a salary around the average wage a miss of that size is a real amount of money, and a reader would have no way to see it.
On the Chilean average wage of 14,201,852 CLP that gap is about 106,514 CLP a year, which is the amount a reader would have been wrong by without any way to see it. Why half a percentage point is the tolerance, and what a gap of this size usually turns out to be, is set out once rather than on each of these pages.
Where Chile sits
Of the 38 jurisdictions the OECD publishes this series for, Chile ranks 37 by the combined rate taken from a single person on the average wage, at 7.1%. Immediately above it: South Korea at 16.5%, Mexico at 13.2%, Costa Rica at 9.8%. Immediately below: Colombia at 0.0%.
What this page does not tell you
Everything above describes a single person with no children on 14,201,852 CLP, 13,191,889 CLP of which they keep. It does not describe a couple, a parent, anybody with income other than a salary, or anybody at a Chilean salary between the three published points. The full list of what this kind of page cannot answer, including how regional taxes are handled and what none of it says about being foreign, is on how these figures are published.
Every figure on this page, and where it came from
22 rules for Chile, each carrying the dataset, the row, the date it was read and an archived copy of that row. Ruleset sha256:7c8a1de9fc6d87cc.
cl.ref_average_combined_rate.aw100.ty2025: Average income tax and employee social security combined at the average wage. DSD_TAX_WAGES@DF_TW_COMP / CHL AV_RITEESSC PT_WG_EARN_G / S_C0 AW100 / 2025. Read 2026-09-06 from OECD Taxing Wages, tax burden on a single person with no children.cl.ref_average_combined_rate.aw167.ty2025: Average income tax and employee social security combined at 167% of the average wage. DSD_TAX_WAGES@DF_TW_COMP / CHL AV_RITEESSC PT_WG_EARN_G / S_C0 AW167 / 2025. Read 2026-09-06 from OECD Taxing Wages, tax burden on a single person with no children.cl.ref_average_combined_rate.aw67.ty2025: Average income tax and employee social security combined at 67% of the average wage. DSD_TAX_WAGES@DF_TW_COMP / CHL AV_RITEESSC PT_WG_EARN_G / S_C0 AW67 / 2025. Read 2026-09-06 from OECD Taxing Wages, tax burden on a single person with no children.cl.ref_average_employee_ssc_rate.aw100.ty2025: Average employee social security rate at the average wage. DSD_TAX_WAGES@DF_TW_COMP / CHL AV_R_EMPEE_SSC PT_WG_EARN_G / S_C0 AW100 / 2025. Read 2026-09-06 from OECD Taxing Wages, tax burden on a single person with no children.cl.ref_average_employee_ssc_rate.aw167.ty2025: Average employee social security rate at 167% of the average wage. DSD_TAX_WAGES@DF_TW_COMP / CHL AV_R_EMPEE_SSC PT_WG_EARN_G / S_C0 AW167 / 2025. Read 2026-09-06 from OECD Taxing Wages, tax burden on a single person with no children.cl.ref_average_employee_ssc_rate.aw67.ty2025: Average employee social security rate at 67% of the average wage. DSD_TAX_WAGES@DF_TW_COMP / CHL AV_R_EMPEE_SSC PT_WG_EARN_G / S_C0 AW67 / 2025. Read 2026-09-06 from OECD Taxing Wages, tax burden on a single person with no children.cl.ref_average_income_tax_rate.aw100.ty2025: Average income tax rate at the average wage. DSD_TAX_WAGES@DF_TW_COMP / CHL AV_ITR PT_WG_EARN_G / S_C0 AW100 / 2025. Read 2026-09-06 from OECD Taxing Wages, tax burden on a single person with no children.cl.ref_average_income_tax_rate.aw167.ty2025: Average income tax rate at 167% of the average wage. DSD_TAX_WAGES@DF_TW_COMP / CHL AV_ITR PT_WG_EARN_G / S_C0 AW167 / 2025. Read 2026-09-06 from OECD Taxing Wages, tax burden on a single person with no children.
The remaining 14 are in the published ruleset, with the same quote and hash on each.
Questions people ask about tax in Chile
What is the average income tax rate in Chile?
0.1% of gross earnings for a single person with no children on the average wage of 14,201,852 CLP, according to the OECD's own Taxing Wages series for 2025. That is an average rate rather than a band rate: it is everything taken divided by everything earned, so it is always lower than the highest band the schedule reaches.
How much does someone on the Chilean average wage take home?
13,191,889 CLP a year from gross earnings of 14,201,852 CLP, after income tax and employee social security contributions. That is the OECD's published net figure, not a calculation by this site, which is the point of this page: Chile is not modelled here and the number therefore comes from somebody who does model it.
Why is there no Chile take-home pay calculator on this site?
Because our own arithmetic does not reproduce the published outcome closely enough. Computing tax from the Chilean statutory schedule and comparing it with the rates the OECD publishes for the same person, the closest reading we could build missed by 0.75 percentage points against a tolerance of half a point. A calculator that is wrong by that much still looks right, which is the reason for the tolerance and the reason this page exists instead.
What does it cost to employ someone in Chile?
More than their salary. On the average wage of 14,201,852 CLP the employer pays a further 0.4% in social security contributions, about 53,257 CLP a year, on top of the gross. That never appears on the payslip and is excluded from every take-home figure on this site.