Work hours to buy…

Work hours to buy ChatGPT Plus (1 month), ranked by country

For each country below, this is how many hours someone earning the local median wage must work to afford ChatGPT Plus (1 month). 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 0.4 hours) and most demanding in Burundi (about 154 hours) across 164 countries with sourced wage data.

#	Country	Work hours
1	Switzerland	0.4
2	Luxembourg	0.5
3	Belgium	0.6
4	Denmark	0.6
5	Iceland	0.6
6	Norway	0.6
7	Netherlands	0.7
8	United Arab Emirates *	0.7
9	Austria	0.7
10	Finland	0.7
11	United States of America	0.7
12	Ireland	0.8
13	United Kingdom	0.9
14	Germany	0.9
15	Sweden	0.9
16	Canada	0.9
17	New Zealand	0.9
18	Singapore	0.9
19	Australia	0.9
20	Qatar *	1.1
21	Israel	1.2
22	Slovenia	1.2
23	Spain	1.3
24	Iran *	1.3
25	Hong Kong	1.3
26	Japan	1.4
27	Estonia	1.4
28	France	1.4
29	Czechia	1.5
30	Cyprus	1.5
31	Croatia	1.6
32	New Caledonia	1.8
33	Lithuania	1.8
34	Latvia	1.8
35	Saudi Arabia *	1.9
36	Kuwait *	2.0
37	South Korea	2.0
38	Italy	2.0
39	Greenland *	2.0
40	Puerto Rico	2.1
41	The Bahamas	2.1
42	Poland	2.3
43	Brunei *	2.3
44	Romania	2.6
45	Slovakia	2.6
46	Portugal	2.6
47	Hungary	3.1
48	Oman *	3.3
49	Republic of Serbia	3.4
50	Bulgaria	3.4
51	Mauritania	3.5
52	Greece	3.5
53	Uruguay	3.5
54	Bosnia and Herzegovina	3.6
55	Palestine	3.8
56	Russia *	4.0
57	Costa Rica	4.0
58	Malaysia *	4.1
59	Montenegro *	4.3
60	Trinidad and Tobago	4.4
61	Chile	4.8
62	Jamaica *	5.0
63	Panama *	5.2
64	Turkey	5.7
65	Argentina	5.7
66	China *	6.1
67	North Macedonia *	6.2
68	Lebanon	6.4
69	Albania *	6.7
70	Belize	6.7
71	Belarus *	6.8
72	Mexico	7.3
73	Ecuador	7.4
74	Djibouti	7.7
75	Brazil	7.9
76	Fiji	8.1
77	Peru	8.1
78	Kosovo *	8.2
79	Paraguay	8.2
80	Moldova	8.3
81	Mongolia	8.8
82	Colombia	8.8
83	Dominican Republic	8.9
84	Libya *	9.0
85	Uzbekistan *	9.1
86	Bolivia	9.2
87	El Salvador	9.6
88	Azerbaijan *	9.6
89	Kazakhstan *	9.7
90	Jordan	9.8
91	Thailand	10
92	Guyana	10
93	Vanuatu *	11
94	Ukraine *	11
95	Guatemala	11
96	Morocco *	11
97	Iraq *	11
98	Georgia	11
99	Honduras	12
100	Gabon *	12
101	Suriname	12
102	Nicaragua *	13
103	Philippines	13
104	Algeria *	13
105	South Africa	15
106	East Timor	15
107	Equatorial Guinea *	17
108	Cambodia	17
109	Haiti *	17
110	Bhutan	18
111	Kyrgyzstan *	19
112	Tunisia	19
113	Namibia	19
114	Guinea	20
115	Solomon Islands *	20
116	Armenia	20
117	Tajikistan *	20
118	eSwatini	21
119	Ivory Coast	22
120	Botswana	23
121	Papua New Guinea *	23
122	Nepal	24
123	Zimbabwe *	25
124	Indonesia	25
125	Sudan	26
126	Cameroon *	26
127	Laos	26
128	Ghana	27
129	Chad	29
130	Eritrea *	29
131	Senegal	30
132	Afghanistan	30
133	Mali	31
134	India	31
135	Sri Lanka	31
136	Myanmar	32
137	Liberia	33
138	Syria *	35
139	Mozambique	35
140	Benin	36
141	Guinea-Bissau	36
142	Bangladesh	38
143	Zambia	38
144	Egypt	39
145	Democratic Republic of the Congo	39
146	United Republic of Tanzania	40
147	Togo	42
148	Niger	43
149	Pakistan	45
150	Republic of the Congo *	45
151	Malawi *	46
152	Burkina Faso	47
153	Ethiopia	49
154	Sierra Leone *	51
155	Lesotho	55
156	Gambia	56
157	Central African Republic *	57
158	Angola	60
159	Uganda	63
160	Rwanda	66
161	Kenya	75
162	Madagascar	75
163	Nigeria	92
164	Burundi	154

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.