Million to Lakh Converter

About the Million to Lakh Converter

This is the direction people need when reading an international salary or valuation and writing it in Indian terms: a $120,000 salary is about 1 million rupees at 83 to the dollar, which is 10 lakh.

Keep the currency separate from the scale. Lakh and million describe the number, not the money; converting a dollar amount to lakh requires the exchange rate as well, and that is a live figure.

How the calculation works

• 1 million = 10 lakh = 0.1 crore
• 1 million = 1,000 thousand
• 1 billion = 100 crore

Reference values

Worked examples

• 1 Million (1,000,000) = 10 Lakh (100,000).
• 2 Million (1,000,000) = 20 Lakh (100,000).
• 5 Million (1,000,000) = 50 Lakh (100,000).
• 10 Million (1,000,000) = 100 Lakh (100,000).
• 50 Million (1,000,000) = 500 Lakh (100,000).
• 100 Million (1,000,000) = 1,000 Lakh (100,000).

Checking the answer

Multiplying by ten is the whole calculation: 2.3 million is 23 lakh, and 0.75 million is 7.5 lakh. A result that keeps the same digits means the two scales were swapped.

Common mistakes

• Quoting a $1 million salary as 10 lakh rupees; at 83 to the dollar it is about 8.3 crore.
• Converting the scale but not the currency, or converting the currency twice.
• Writing 1 million as 100 lakh instead of 10.

Using this conversion

This direction is for reading foreign salaries, funding and property listings in Indian terms. Convert the currency first, then the scale, and state the rate you used, because the dollar figure is the part that moves.

When precision matters

One decimal place in lakh covers salary comparisons. For a remittance, keep rupees and convert the scale last: lakh is a label on the number rather than a unit of money.

Reverse it: divide the lakh figure by ten and you should be back at the million figure. 4.7 million has to return 47 lakh exactly.

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