Community data
What Nigerians are actually paying
Rent, salaries, school fees, transport and food prices, reported anonymously by readers and grouped by state and city. Free to read, free to contribute, and no account is needed to do either.
1 published entries and counting.
There is a strange gap in Nigerian public information. We can find out almost anything about how things work in theory, and almost nothing about what they currently cost in practice. What does a two bedroom flat in Yaba go for this year. What is a mid level accountant in Abuja being offered. What did that school in Port Harcourt actually charge last term once the levies were added.
Those numbers exist. They live in group chats, in conversations with colleagues and in the memory of whoever paid them last month. What they do not do is sit anywhere you can look them up, which means most people negotiate rent, accept a salary or budget for school fees with no reference point at all.
This section is an attempt to close that gap. Readers report what they pay, we review and publish the aggregates, and everyone gets to see where the middle of the range actually sits. No account is needed to contribute, no personal details are collected, and nothing identifies anyone who submits.
The datasets
Rent prices
What people are actually paying in rent, by state, city and property type. Useful before you negotiate, before you move, and before you accept a renewal increase.
1 published entrySalaries
What roles actually pay, by title, experience level and location. The information that makes a salary negotiation a conversation rather than a guess.
Be the first to contributeSchool fees
What schools and institutions are actually charging this year, by level and location, including the levies that never appear on the official schedule.
Be the first to contributeTransport fares
Current fares on real routes, by mode and city. Transport costs move faster than almost anything else in a household budget.
Be the first to contributeFood and market prices
What staples actually cost this month, by item, market type and location. Prices move weekly, so recent entries matter most.
Be the first to contributeHow a submission works
You choose a dataset, enter the state and city, describe what you are reporting and give the amount. There is no login, no email address and no name. The form takes under a minute. Every entry is then read by a person before it appears, which is why the data stays usable rather than filling up with noise.
What we never collect
No names, no email addresses, no phone numbers, no employer names attached to a salary, and no exact addresses attached to a rent figure. A submission records a location at city level, a description, an amount and the date. That is all, and it is all that is ever published.
How to read the numbers
We show the median rather than the average, because a handful of unusually high entries can drag an average somewhere unhelpful. Alongside it we show the range and the number of entries behind it. Where only a few people have reported a location, treat the figure as an anecdote rather than a market.
What this data is not
It is not a valuation, an official statistic or a substitute for checking directly with a landlord, employer or institution. It is a reference point built from what people say they paid. Useful for knowing whether a number is in the right region, not for settling an argument about a specific property or offer.
Why contribute
The straightforward reason is that it costs you a minute and helps somebody who is where you were last year. The person about to move to a new city, the graduate about to accept a first offer, the parent working out whether a school is worth the change.
The less obvious reason is that information asymmetry is expensive, and it is expensive in one direction. Landlords know what the street gets. Employers know what they pay everyone in the team. The person on the other side of those conversations usually knows only what they themselves are paying. Every entry here closes that gap by a small amount.
Salary data in particular tends to make people uncomfortable, and that discomfort is exactly what makes it valuable. Nobody is asked to name their employer, and nothing here identifies anyone.
Use the data with the calculators
These figures are most useful next to your own. Once you know what rent is going for in an area, work out what you can actually carry with the Rent Affordability Calculator, then check the full cost of moving with the Moving Cost Calculator.
For a salary figure, run it through the Salary After Tax Calculator to see what it becomes in your account, then against the Cost of Living Calculator to see what it leaves you. For school fees, the Savings Goal Calculator turns a session figure into a monthly target.
All 38 calculators are listed on the tools page, and the blog covers the same ground in more depth.
Ready to add yours? It takes under a minute, needs no account and collects nothing about you. Submit a report.