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🇮🇳India · Lower-middle income · 2026-Q3

Bangalore

20composite score · #43 of 50

MEDIUM · sourced, not yet live-verified

LOW-to-MEDIUM provenance, and the 'pending live-verification, will return to HIGH once fetched' framing is withdrawn: the URLs have been fetched, and this city has the weakest citation set in the index. min_wage_url cannot be reached at all and has never been archived. median_wage_url is a ministry home page carrying no wage data. earnings_url is a fairness-ratings page incapable of carrying any pay figure. The guarantee's own evidence records that live verification of the Karnataka 2025 Act failed. Nothing here has been shown false; almost nothing here can be checked.

Only HIGH-confidence cities carry a full verification audit. See the methodology for what each tier means.

Earnings (USD per hour)

Net, after tax & expensesn/a
Gross$1.17/hr

Source: Fairwork India 2024 ratings

What would you take home in Bangalore?

30hrs

Take-home, weekly

n/a

Take-home, monthly

n/a

Gross, weekly

$35

Gross, monthly

$152

Take-home is gross hourly minus an estimated tax/expense rate per country. See the methodology page for the derivation. This widget assumes you actually work the hours you set. For app-based delivery, a portion of logged-in time is unpaid waiting; the headline rate reflects engaged time only where regulators have defined it.

Cost of living vs. earnings

Hours of work for one month's rent (1BR outside centre)2633 hours
Rent, 1BR outside centre$184/mo
Restaurant meal (mid-range)$3.13

Pay vs. local labour market

Minimum wage$0.48/hr
Median wage (all occupations)$1.04/hr

Gross hourly is 115% of local minimum wage, 53% of local median.

Notes

Cross-verified with BusinessToday + Trak.in + Fairwork India 2024 (Swiggy, Zomato, Zepto sections). Outside-of-center rent estimated as 70% of city-center pending Round D1.

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See full source citations for this city on the sources page. Read about how each metric is computed in the methodology.

Primary earnings source: fair.work/en/ratings/india/ · archived