Work hours to buy…

Work hours to buy AirPods Pro 3, ranked by country

For each country below, this is how many hours someone earning the local median wage must work to afford AirPods Pro 3. 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 5.3 hours) and most demanding in Burundi (about 1,915 hours) across 164 countries with sourced wage data.

#	Country	Work hours
1	Switzerland	5.3
2	Luxembourg	5.9
3	Belgium	7.0
4	Denmark	7.3
5	Iceland	7.6
6	Norway	7.9
7	Netherlands	8.4
8	United Arab Emirates *	8.5
9	Austria	9.1
10	Finland	9.2
11	United States of America	9.3
12	Canada	10
13	Ireland	11
14	Sweden	11
15	New Zealand	11
16	Singapore	11
17	Germany	12
18	United Kingdom	13
19	Qatar *	14
20	Australia	14
21	Israel	15
22	Slovenia	15
23	Spain	16
24	Iran *	16
25	Hong Kong	17
26	Japan	17
27	Estonia	18
28	Czechia	19
29	Cyprus	19
30	Croatia	20
31	France	20
32	New Caledonia	22
33	Lithuania	22
34	Latvia	23
35	Saudi Arabia *	23
36	South Korea	25
37	Kuwait *	25
38	Italy	25
39	Greenland *	25
40	Puerto Rico	26
41	The Bahamas	26
42	Poland	28
43	Brunei *	29
44	Romania	32
45	Slovakia	33
46	Portugal	33
47	Hungary	38
48	Oman *	41
49	Republic of Serbia	42
50	Bulgaria	42
51	Mauritania	43
52	Greece	43
53	Uruguay	43
54	Bosnia and Herzegovina	45
55	Palestine	48
56	Russia *	49
57	Costa Rica	50
58	Malaysia *	51
59	Montenegro *	53
60	Trinidad and Tobago	55
61	Chile	60
62	Jamaica *	63
63	Panama *	65
64	Turkey	71
65	Argentina	71
66	North Macedonia *	78
67	Lebanon	80
68	Albania *	83
69	Belize	84
70	Belarus *	84
71	China *	85
72	Mexico	91
73	Ecuador	92
74	Djibouti	96
75	Brazil	98
76	Fiji	100
77	Peru	101
78	Kosovo *	102
79	Paraguay	103
80	Moldova	103
81	Mongolia	110
82	Colombia	110
83	Dominican Republic	111
84	Libya *	112
85	Uzbekistan *	114
86	Bolivia	115
87	El Salvador	120
88	Azerbaijan *	120
89	Kazakhstan *	121
90	Jordan	123
91	Thailand	125
92	Guyana	129
93	Vanuatu *	131
94	Ukraine *	132
95	Guatemala	132
96	Morocco *	138
97	Iraq *	140
98	Georgia	142
99	Honduras	144
100	Gabon *	149
101	Suriname	149
102	Nicaragua *	159
103	Philippines	166
104	Algeria *	168
105	South Africa	183
106	East Timor	185
107	Equatorial Guinea *	210
108	Cambodia	213
109	Haiti *	215
110	Bhutan	226
111	Kyrgyzstan *	231
112	Tunisia	235
113	Namibia	238
114	Guinea	248
115	Solomon Islands *	248
116	Armenia	253
117	Tajikistan *	254
118	eSwatini	262
119	Ivory Coast	271
120	Botswana	281
121	Papua New Guinea *	287
122	Nepal	297
123	Zimbabwe *	311
124	Indonesia	312
125	Sudan	318
126	Cameroon *	327
127	Laos	328
128	Ghana	336
129	Chad	359
130	Eritrea *	359
131	Senegal	368
132	Afghanistan	373
133	Mali	382
134	Sri Lanka	387
135	Myanmar	398
136	Liberia	414
137	India	420
138	Syria *	432
139	Mozambique	433
140	Benin	448
141	Guinea-Bissau	449
142	Bangladesh	468
143	Zambia	477
144	Egypt	480
145	Democratic Republic of the Congo	484
146	United Republic of Tanzania	498
147	Togo	518
148	Niger	539
149	Pakistan	555
150	Republic of the Congo *	560
151	Malawi *	571
152	Burkina Faso	580
153	Ethiopia	609
154	Sierra Leone *	629
155	Lesotho	684
156	Gambia	699
157	Central African Republic *	713
158	Angola	750
159	Uganda	781
160	Rwanda	819
161	Kenya	940
162	Madagascar	940
163	Nigeria	1,142
164	Burundi	1,915

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.