Is your pay rise beating inflation in Timor-Leste?
Prices in Timor-Leste rose 0.5% in the year to July 2026. A pay rise below that leaves you worse off than before.
$1,000 of last year’s pay now goes as far as $995.23.
Measured on the Consumer Price Index, published by the International Monetary Fund.
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Enter a salary and an offer and this will say what the offer is worth once the prices between those dates are taken off it.
What each offer is worth over a year
Prices rose 0.5% in the twelve months to July 2026. Measured against that, this is what $1,000 of salary becomes under each offer, and what that money actually buys. Anything under $1,000 in the last column is a cut however it is described.
| Offer | $1,000 becomes | Which really buys |
|---|---|---|
| 0.5%level | $1,004.79 | $1,000.00 |
| 1% | $1,010.00 | $1,005.19 |
| 2% | $1,020.00 | $1,015.14 |
| 3% | $1,030.00 | $1,025.09 |
| 4% | $1,040.00 | $1,035.04 |
| 5% | $1,050.00 | $1,045.00 |
| 6% | $1,060.00 | $1,054.95 |
| 8% | $1,080.00 | $1,074.85 |
| 10% | $1,100.00 | $1,094.76 |
The marked row is the offer that leaves you level over those twelve months. The last column is what each amount buys measured against prices a year earlier, so it can be compared with the $1,000 you started from. For a gap that is not a year, use the calculator above.
What it took to stand still, year by year
Inflation in Timor-Leste for each of the last ten years, and what a salary left alone was worth by the end of each of them. 2023 took the most, at 8.4%; 2016 took the least, at -1.3%.
| Year | Inflation | $1,000 fell to |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | -1.3% | $1,013.57 |
| 2017 | 0.6% | $994.46 |
| 2018 | 2.6% | $974.31 |
| 2019 | 1.0% | $990.50 |
| 2020 | 0.5% | $995.07 |
| 2021 | 3.7% | $964.34 |
| 2022 | 7.0% | $934.53 |
| 2023 | 8.4% | $922.34 |
| 2024 | 2.1% | $979.79 |
| 2025 | 0.4% | $995.74 |
Inflation in a year is that year's average price level against the previous year's, which is the figure Timor-Leste's own statisticians publish.
Two things this does not account for
Tax. Every figure here is gross. A rise is taxed, so what reaches your account is less than the percentage suggests, and where thresholds are frozen a rise can move you into a higher band and take a larger share than the year before. A rise that beats inflation before tax can still leave you worse off after it.
Your own prices. Inflation is an average across everything a typical household buys. If your rent rose, or you drive a long way to work, or you heat a large house, your own figure is higher than the published one and the pay rise you need is bigger.