This study estimates the living income and living wage for Costa Rica’s Huetar Atlántico Region using the Anker Methodology®, reflecting economic and labor market conditions as of June 2025 and distinguishing between urban and rural areas.

This study estimates the living income and living wage for Costa Rica’s Pacífico Central Region using the Anker Methodology®, reflecting economic and labor market conditions as of June 2025 and distinguishing between urban and rural areas.

This study estimates the living income and living wage for Costa Rica’s Huetar Norte Region using the Anker Methodology®, reflecting economic and labor market conditions as of June 2025 and distinguishing between urban and rural areas.

This study estimates the living income and living wage for Costa Rica’s Chorotega Region using the Anker Methodology®, reflecting economic and labor market conditions as of June 2025 and distinguishing between urban and rural areas.

This study estimates the living income and living wage for Costa Rica’s Central Region using the Anker Methodology®, reflecting economic and labor market conditions as of June 2025 and distinguishing between urban and rural areas.

This study estimates the living income and living wage for Costa Rica’s Brunca Region using the Anker Methodology®, reflecting economic and labor market conditions as of June 2025 and distinguishing between urban and rural areas.

This report estimates a living wage for rural areas of the Atlantic and North Huetar regions of Costa Rica for 2025 using the Anker Methodology®, and replaces the previous benchmark conducted for these regions in 2017. Our estimate of the living wage for a full-time worker as of May 2025 is CRC 450,734 (USD 886), considering the 13-month payment (Aguinaldo). This amount is based on the cost of a basic but decent living standard for a reference family of four people, consisting of two adults and two children, of CRC 708,724 per month (USD 1,393).