Recent years have seen a surge in interest in the sociodemographic determinants of public opinion of science. The relationship between income and public attitudes towards science, however, has received little attention. This is puzzling, as social and economic inequality is often highlighted as a barrier for access and engagement with science and technology. In response, I investigate the relationship between relative and subjective income in a large (268,102 respondents) global (145 countries) sample, combining two rounds of the Wellcome Global Monitor from 2018 and 2020. Analyses show that subjective income (whether the respondents feel that they can get by on current income) is more strongly related to trust in science than relative income (household income as quartiles), though both exhibit positive relationships with trust in science. A series of exploratory analyses of contextual and individual level moderators, indicate that especially institutional quality, science efficacy, and institutional trust matters for the correlations between income and trust in science.