What share of jobs are informal in Salta?

51.0% of employed people in Salta held informal jobs in the first quarter of 2026 under INDEC's definition, 11th highest of 30 Argentine cities on this site; the figure for all 31 survey areas was 44.2%.

What share of homes in Salta have sewers?

93.0% of households in Salta were connected to a public sewer in the first quarter of 2026 (INDEC EPH), 10th highest of 30 Argentine cities on this site; the figure for all 31 survey areas was 73.0%.

What share of homes in Salta have piped water?

96.1% of households in Salta had running water from the public network inside the home in the first quarter of 2026, 7th lowest of 30 Argentine cities on this site.

Economy, jobs and prices in Salta, Argentina: official figures

The unemployment rate in Salta was 4.3% in the second quarter of 2026 (INDEC EPH), 6th lowest of 30 Argentine cities on this site; it was 6.6% a year earlier, so it is down 2.3 percentage points. The rate for all 31 survey areas was 7.9%.

Unemployment rate (INDEC EPH, Q2 2026)

4.3%

Q2 2026

Employment rate (INDEC EPH, Q2 2026)

43.2%

Q2 2026

Mean per-person family income (INDEC EPH, Q1 2026)

605,221 pesos

Q1 2026

What is the employment rate in Salta?

The employment rate in Salta (employed people as a share of all residents) was 43.2% in the second quarter of 2026, 12th lowest of 30 Argentine cities on this site, against 42.5% a year earlier and 45.0% across the 31 survey areas.

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What is the labour force participation rate in Salta?

45.1% of residents of Salta were working or looking for work in the second quarter of 2026 (the activity rate), 11th lowest of 30 Argentine cities on this site; the year before it was 45.5%.

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What is the underemployment rate in Salta?

In the second quarter of 2026, 11.7% of the labour force in Salta worked fewer hours than they wanted (underemployment), 14th highest of 30 Argentine cities on this site, compared with 11.4% a year earlier and 11.5% across the 31 survey areas.

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How many people in Salta work for the government?

In Salta, 31.0% of employed people were self-employed and 24.0% of employees worked in the public sector in the first quarter of 2026 (INDEC EPH); across the 31 survey areas the shares were 24.2% and 21.9%.

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How many workers in Salta are looking for another job?

Among employed people in Salta, 19.5% were also looking for another job in the second quarter of 2026, 10th highest of 30 Argentine cities on this site.

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What is the average income per person in Salta?

Mean family income per person in Salta was 605,221 pesos a month in the first quarter of 2026 (INDEC EPH, current pesos), 14th lowest of 30 Argentine cities on this site; the mean for all 31 survey areas was 731,516 pesos.

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What is the median income in Salta?

The median person in Salta lived in a household with family income of 450,000 pesos per person a month in the first quarter of 2026, 14th lowest of 30 Argentine cities on this site (all 31 survey areas: 500,000 pesos).

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What is the average wage in Salta?

Employed people in Salta who reported earnings made a mean of 939,311 pesos a month from their main job in the first quarter of 2026 (median 720,000 pesos), 15th lowest of 30 Argentine cities on this site on the mean; across the 31 survey areas the mean was 1,104,227 pesos.

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How unequal are incomes in Salta?

The richest tenth of residents of Salta, ranked by family income per person, received 31.1% of all income in the first quarter of 2026, 10th highest of 30 Argentine cities on this site on income concentration (all 31 survey areas: 33.4%).

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Is income in Salta above the national average?

Mean family income per person in Salta was 0.83 times the mean for the 31 survey areas in the first quarter of 2026, and the median was 0.90 times the 31-area median.

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How many homes in Salta have piped gas?

76.5% of households in Salta cooked mainly with piped gas in the first quarter of 2026, 11th highest of 30 Argentine cities on this site (all 31 survey areas: 64.7%).

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How many people in Salta rent their home?

In Salta, 70.0% of households owned their home and 19.4% rented it in the first quarter of 2026; the shares for all 31 survey areas were 67.8% and 20.9%.

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How Salta compares with other cities in Argentina

Unemployment rate (Q2 2026)

Salta ranks 25 of 30, highest first.

Rank	City	Unemployment rate
22	Tucumán-Tafí Viejo	5.5%
23	Formosa	4.8%
24	La Rioja	4.5%
25	Salta	4.3%
26	San Salvador de Jujuy-Palpalá	3.4%
27	San Juan	3.2%
28	Neuquén-Plottier	3.2%

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Employment rate (Q2 2026)

Salta ranks 19 of 30, highest first.

Rank	City	Employment rate
16	Rio Gallegos	44.5%
17	La Rioja	43.9%
18	Paraná	43.3%
19	Salta	43.2%
20	Río Cuarto	42.6%
21	Formosa	42.3%
22	Resistencia	41.3%

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Activity rate (Q2 2026)

Salta ranks 20 of 30, highest first.

Rank	City	Activity rate
17	Paraná	46.4%
18	La Rioja	46.0%
19	Río Cuarto	45.5%
20	Salta	45.1%
21	Corrientes	44.9%
22	San Nicolás-Villa Constitución	44.9%
23	Santa Fé	44.8%

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Underemployment rate (Q2 2026)

Salta ranks 14 of 30, highest first.

Rank	City	Underemployment rate
11	Bahía Blanca-Cerri	12.6%
12	San Juan	12.2%
13	San Nicolás-Villa Constitución	11.9%
14	Salta	11.7%
15	Rio Gallegos	11.1%
16	Buenos Aires	11.0%
17	Posadas	10.8%

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Informal jobs, share of employed (Q1 2026)

Salta ranks 11 of 30, highest first.

Rank	City	Informal jobs, share of employed
8	Mendoza	52.3%
9	Resistencia	52.3%
10	Corrientes	51.9%
11	Salta	51.0%
12	Córdoba	48.5%
13	San Luis - El Chorrillo	46.1%
14	Catamarca	45.1%

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Mean family income per person (pesos a month) (Q1 2026)

Salta ranks 17 of 30, highest first. Current pesos, people in households that reported income

Rank	City	Mean family income per person (pesos a month)
14	San Nicolás-Villa Constitución	689,571
15	Santa Fé	641,276
16	Paraná	625,582
17	Salta	605,221
18	Catamarca	595,841
19	San Juan	583,128
20	Mendoza	575,737

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Median family income per person (pesos a month) (Q1 2026)

Salta ranks 17 of 30, highest first.

Rank	City	Median family income per person (pesos a month)
14	La Plata	500,000
15	Paraná	477,500
16	Santa Fé	475,000
17	Salta	450,000
18	San Salvador de Jujuy-Palpalá	440,000
19	Tucumán-Tafí Viejo	436,667
20	Catamarca	436,667

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Mean main-job income of earners (pesos a month) (Q1 2026)

Salta ranks 16 of 30, highest first.

Rank	City	Mean main-job income of earners (pesos a month)
13	Córdoba	1,012,153
14	Santa Fé	1,010,445
15	La Plata	973,359
16	Salta	939,311
17	Mendoza	933,774
18	Paraná	931,982
19	San Luis - El Chorrillo	893,588

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Share of income received by the richest tenth (Q1 2026)

Salta ranks 10 of 30, highest first.

Rank	City	Share of income received by the richest tenth
7	Formosa	31.9%
8	Mendoza	31.3%
9	Corrientes	31.2%
10	Salta	31.1%
11	San Nicolás-Villa Constitución	31.0%
12	Resistencia	30.7%
13	San Luis - El Chorrillo	29.9%

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Households connected to a public sewer (Q1 2026)

Salta ranks 10 of 30, highest first.

Rank	City	Households connected to a public sewer
7	Rawson-Trelew-Playa Unión	95.4%
8	Mar del Plata-Batán	94.7%
9	Corrientes	93.3%
10	Salta	93.0%
11	Mendoza	92.5%
12	La Rioja	92.0%
13	Neuquén-Plottier	91.3%

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Households cooking with piped gas (Q1 2026)

Salta ranks 11 of 30, highest first.

Rank	City	Households cooking with piped gas
8	Bahía Blanca-Cerri	79.7%
9	Mar del Plata-Batán	79.1%
10	San Luis - El Chorrillo	77.3%
11	Salta	76.5%
12	San Juan	71.8%
13	San Nicolás-Villa Constitución	70.6%
14	Rosario	69.0%

Source: Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos (INDEC) · saved copy

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Sources

Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos (INDEC): Mercado de trabajo. Tasas e indicadores socioeconómicos (EPH), segundo trimestre de 2026 (Tables 3.2 and 3.3), read 23 October 2026 · saved copy (SHA-256 b0a700bac4db…)
Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos (INDEC): Encuesta Permanente de Hogares (EPH): bases de microdatos usuarias, individual y hogar, primer trimestre de 2026 (figures computed with the survey weights), read 23 October 2026 · saved copy (SHA-256 d9d23945d4b1…)

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