El Salvador

UN & international careers in El Salvador.

Hardship Category A Post Adjustment 30.1% Cost of living 41 (US=100) HDI Rank #132
Duty stations
San Salvador (10)
Your Take-Home in El Salvador

An estimate for a UN post at San Salvador, El Salvador — for internationally recruited staff (Professional P / D, in US dollars) or locally recruited staff (General Service / National Officer, local scale).

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You must already have 5 years' continuous UN service to qualify, and it applies from your 2nd duty station onward. Paid for up to 5 years at any one station.
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Indicative estimate — excludes rental subsidy, education grant and settling-in. Professional (P/D) pay is in US dollars; GS/NO on the local scale in local currency. For information only — not official advice.

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Allowances & Benefits in El Salvador

On top of net base salary, ICSC common-system entitlements adjust pay for cost of living and the difficulty of the posting. Not every allowance applies to every posting or every staff category — each is tagged below. Amounts are 2025 rates in US dollars.

Who gets it: IP internationally recruited P/D · GS / NO locally recruited · All staff all staff

Hardship Classification IP

Category A

A is the mildest hardship tier: broadly comfortable conditions with good services.

Category A carries no hardship allowance.

How hardship & mobility work Is this the right posting for you? Family & relocation read

Post Adjustment IP

30%

Post adjustment is a cost-of-living multiplier added to net base salary so purchasing power is comparable across duty stations. It is set city by city, not country-wide. New York (HQ) is 76%.

El Salvador (San Salvador)
30%
New York (HQ)
76%
Example of net base + post adjustment (30%), by grade (step 1, annual):
P-2
$72,916
net base $56,046
+$16,870 PA
P-3
$92,807
net base $71,335
+$21,472 PA
P-4
$111,921
net base $86,027
+$25,894 PA
P-5
$134,218
net base $103,165
+$31,053 PA
Post adjustment keeps your purchasing power comparable to New York — a lower multiplier usually reflects lower local costs, not less buying power. Read more about cost of living & real UN purchasing power →
Understand post adjustment

Danger Pay All staff

Not applicable here

El Salvador is not a designated danger-pay duty station. Danger pay is granted only where staff face serious danger such as armed conflict.

About danger pay

Non-Family Duty Station IP

Not applicable here

El Salvador is a family duty station — eligible dependants may accompany staff, so no non-family allowance applies.

About non-family duty stations

Rest & Recuperation All staff

Not applicable here

This duty station is not typically R&R-designated. Rest & Recuperation applies to the more difficult hardship and security postings.

About Rest & Recuperation

Mobility Incentive IP

El Salvador is a hardship duty station (category A), so internationally recruited staff do earn a mobility incentive here — from their second assignment onward, once they have five years' continuous UN service. The annual amount depends on your grade and how many duty stations you've served (it's the same at any hardship location; only category H stations are excluded).

Annual incentive from your 2nd duty station (2nd–3rd), by grade:
$6,900/yr
P-1 – P-3
$8,625/yr
P-4 – P-5
$10,350/yr
P-6+ / D
It rises with each move: a P-4 / P-5, for example, earns $8,625 from the 2nd–3rd duty station, $10,781 from the 4th–6th, then $12,938 from the 7th onward. Set your prior assignments in the calculator ↑
About the mobility incentive
Indicative figures based on UN ICSC common-system rates (2025) & World Bank data — not official entitlement advice. See UN contracts & grade levels.
Pay by Grade in San Salvador

Open the full salary scale, allowances and estimated take-home for a specific grade at this duty station.

Professional & Director (internationally recruited)
P-1 P-2 P-3 P-4 P-5 D-1 D-2
General Service & National Officer (locally recruited)
G-1 G-2 G-3 G-4 G-5 G-6 G-7 NO-A NO-B NO-C NO-D
World Bank Group pay in El Salvador

The Bank is not on the UN common system: there is no post adjustment, each country office is set against its own local market, and figures are quoted net of tax — so they do not compare like for like with the UN figures above. Annual, in local currency.

GradeMinimumMidpointMaximum
G1 USD 8,290 11,850 15,410
GA USD 11,380 16,260 21,140
GB USD 14,920 21,310 27,700
GC USD 20,240 28,920 37,600
GD USD 26,540 37,920 49,300
GE USD 37,220 53,180 69,140
GF USD 59,650 85,210 110,780
GG USD 99,920 142,740 185,560
GH USD 127,540 182,200 236,860

Based on the World Bank Group's FY27 salary structure (7 July 2026), shown here for ease of reference. Figures are reviewed annually and can change without notice — the official World Bank Group salary scales should always be consulted and prevail over anything shown here. What the GA–GK grades pay → How the World Bank Group pays →

These are UN common-system pay figures (Secretariat, funds, agencies and programmes). The IMF and other Bretton Woods institutions use their own scales (the World Bank's is above), and NGOs and other non-UN employers that also post jobs in El Salvador set their own salaries and benefits — a role here does not guarantee these figures.

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