Work hours to buy…

Work hours to buy AirPods Max, ranked by country

For each country below, this is how many hours someone earning the local median wage must work to afford AirPods Max. Fewer hours means it is more affordable relative to local pay. Wage figures are real, sourced from the ILO and OECD; the price is the local list price where we have one, otherwise the US price as a reference (both in US dollars).

It is cheapest to earn in Switzerland (about 12 hours) and most demanding in Burundi (about 4,223 hours) across 164 countries with sourced wage data.

#	Country	Work hours
1	Switzerland	12
2	Luxembourg	13
3	Belgium	15
4	Denmark	16
5	Iceland	17
6	Norway	17
7	Netherlands	18
8	United Arab Emirates *	19
9	Austria	20
10	Finland	20
11	United States of America	20
12	Ireland	23
13	Sweden	24
14	Canada	25
15	New Zealand	25
16	Singapore	25
17	Germany	29
18	United Kingdom	29
19	Qatar *	30
20	Australia	32
21	Israel	33
22	Slovenia	33
23	Spain	35
24	Iran *	35
25	Hong Kong	36
26	Estonia	39
27	Japan	39
28	Czechia	41
29	Cyprus	42
30	Croatia	45
31	France	48
32	New Caledonia	49
33	Lithuania	50
34	Latvia	50
35	Saudi Arabia *	51
36	Kuwait *	55
37	Italy	56
38	Greenland *	56
39	Puerto Rico	56
40	South Korea	56
41	The Bahamas	57
42	Poland	62
43	Brunei *	63
44	Romania	70
45	Slovakia	72
46	Portugal	72
47	Hungary	85
48	Oman *	89
49	Republic of Serbia	93
50	Bulgaria	93
51	Mauritania	95
52	Greece	95
53	Uruguay	96
54	Bosnia and Herzegovina	99
55	Palestine	105
56	Russia *	109
57	Costa Rica	111
58	Malaysia *	112
59	Montenegro *	118
60	Trinidad and Tobago	121
61	Chile	133
62	Jamaica *	138
63	Panama *	143
64	Turkey	156
65	Argentina	157
66	North Macedonia *	171
67	Lebanon	176
68	China *	179
69	Albania *	184
70	Belize	185
71	Belarus *	186
72	Mexico	201
73	Ecuador	202
74	Djibouti	211
75	Brazil	217
76	Fiji	222
77	Peru	223
78	Kosovo *	224
79	Paraguay	226
80	Moldova	227
81	Mongolia	242
82	Colombia	243
83	Dominican Republic	244
84	Libya *	246
85	Uzbekistan *	251
86	Bolivia	253
87	El Salvador	264
88	Azerbaijan *	264
89	Kazakhstan *	267
90	Jordan	270
91	Thailand	276
92	Guyana	283
93	Vanuatu *	290
94	Ukraine *	290
95	Guatemala	291
96	Morocco *	305
97	Iraq *	308
98	Georgia	313
99	Honduras	318
100	Gabon *	328
101	Suriname	329
102	Nicaragua *	351
103	Philippines	366
104	Algeria *	370
105	South Africa	405
106	East Timor	408
107	Equatorial Guinea *	463
108	Cambodia	469
109	Haiti *	475
110	Bhutan	499
111	Kyrgyzstan *	510
112	Tunisia	518
113	Namibia	525
114	Guinea	546
115	Solomon Islands *	547
116	Armenia	557
117	Tajikistan *	559
118	eSwatini	579
119	Ivory Coast	597
120	Botswana	620
121	Papua New Guinea *	632
122	Nepal	654
123	Zimbabwe *	685
124	Indonesia	687
125	Sudan	700
126	Cameroon *	721
127	Laos	722
128	Ghana	740
129	Chad	791
130	Eritrea *	792
131	Senegal	811
132	Afghanistan	822
133	Mali	842
134	Sri Lanka	852
135	Myanmar	877
136	Liberia	913
137	Syria *	951
138	Mozambique	955
139	Benin	987
140	Guinea-Bissau	989
141	Bangladesh	1,032
142	Zambia	1,052
143	Egypt	1,058
144	Democratic Republic of the Congo	1,068
145	United Republic of Tanzania	1,098
146	India	1,101
147	Togo	1,141
148	Niger	1,188
149	Pakistan	1,223
150	Republic of the Congo *	1,234
151	Malawi *	1,259
152	Burkina Faso	1,280
153	Ethiopia	1,342
154	Sierra Leone *	1,386
155	Lesotho	1,508
156	Gambia	1,542
157	Central African Republic *	1,573
158	Angola	1,654
159	Uganda	1,721
160	Rwanda	1,806
161	Kenya	2,072
162	Madagascar	2,072
163	Nigeria	2,518
164	Burundi	4,223

Work hours = price ÷ the country’s median wage (hourly). The price is the local list price where we have one, otherwise the US price as a reference (both in USD) — it won’t match every local retailer or tax, so treat the numbers as an illustration and check the price where you live.

* Wage is a PIP-calibrated estimate rather than a directly sourced figure.