About 30.9% of Kazakh families have a monthly income of 150,000-300,000 tenge, according to a survey of the country's adult population conducted by the National Bank of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the website infohub.kz reports.
Another 12.6% of respondents said their average monthly income was only 100,000-150,000 tenge. Some 23.6% cited 300,000-500,000 tenge, while 13.4% reported more than 500,000 tenge.
The breakdown of responses on household budget size (September 2026) is as follows: up to 40,000 tenge — 3.90%; 40,001-70,000 tenge — 3.90%; 70,001-100,000 tenge — 5.40%; 100,001-150,000 tenge — 12.60%; 150,001-300,000 tenge — 30.9%; 300,001-500,000 tenge — 23.60%; more than 500,001 tenge — 13.40%; undecided — 6.20%.
As for sources of monetary income, 75.4% of families cited wages. State benefits, including pensions and stipends, were mentioned by 33.2% of respondents, while 9.2% pointed to financial help from relatives.
Against this backdrop, only 27.9% of citizens said their families had personal savings, while 60.3% reported having none.
Respondents were also asked separately about inflation. More than half of citizens note rising prices in the country: about 47.3% said prices for goods and services had grown faster over the past year than before, while another 37.7% said the increase was the same as last year.
Only 0.2% of those polled said prices had fallen over the year, 9.1% noted a slowdown in growth, and another 2.3% said they had not changed at all.
It was reported earlier that average per capita nominal incomes in Kazakhstan stood at 263,691 tenge a month in the second quarter of 2026. They grew 11.2% over the year, but inflation meant real growth was only 0.7%.