Work hours to buy…

Work hours to buy GTA VI, ranked by country

For each country below, this is how many hours someone earning the local median wage must work to afford GTA VI. 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 2.1 hours) and most demanding in Burundi (about 615 hours) across 164 countries with sourced wage data.

#	Country	Work hours
1	Switzerland	2.1
2	Luxembourg	2.2
3	Iceland	2.4
4	Norway	2.5
5	Belgium	2.6
6	Denmark	2.7
7	United Arab Emirates *	2.7
8	United States of America	3.0
9	Netherlands	3.1
10	Austria	3.3
11	Finland	3.4
12	Canada	3.4
13	New Zealand	3.7
14	Ireland	3.9
15	Singapore	3.9
16	Germany	4.0
17	United Kingdom	4.1
18	Sweden	4.1
19	Australia	4.2
20	Japan	4.3
21	Qatar *	4.4
22	Hong Kong	4.8
23	Iran *	5.2
24	Slovenia	5.5
25	Spain	5.8
26	South Korea	6.0
27	Israel	6.2
28	Estonia	6.5
29	France	6.6
30	Cyprus	7.0
31	New Caledonia	7.1
32	Czechia	7.1
33	Croatia	7.4
34	Saudi Arabia *	7.5
35	Kuwait *	8.0
36	Greenland *	8.1
37	Puerto Rico	8.2
38	Lithuania	8.3
39	The Bahamas	8.3
40	Latvia	8.4
41	Brunei *	9.2
42	Italy	9.2
43	Poland	10
44	Romania	11
45	Slovakia	12
46	Portugal	12
47	Oman *	13
48	Republic of Serbia	14
49	Bulgaria	14
50	Mauritania	14
51	Uruguay	14
52	Bosnia and Herzegovina	14
53	Palestine	15
54	Russia *	16
55	Greece	16
56	Hungary	16
57	Costa Rica	16
58	Malaysia *	17
59	Montenegro *	17
60	Trinidad and Tobago	18
61	Chile	19
62	Jamaica *	20
63	Panama *	21
64	Argentina	23
65	Turkey	24
66	China *	24
67	North Macedonia *	25
68	Lebanon	26
69	Albania *	27
70	Belize	27
71	Belarus *	27
72	Ecuador	29
73	Djibouti	31
74	Mexico	31
75	Fiji	32
76	Peru	33
77	Kosovo *	33
78	Paraguay	33
79	Moldova	33
80	Brazil	35
81	Mongolia	35
82	Colombia	35
83	Dominican Republic	36
84	Libya *	36
85	Uzbekistan *	37
86	Bolivia	37
87	El Salvador	38
88	Azerbaijan *	39
89	Kazakhstan *	39
90	Jordan	39
91	Thailand	41
92	Guyana	41
93	Ukraine *	41
94	Vanuatu *	42
95	Guatemala	42
96	Morocco *	44
97	Iraq *	45
98	Georgia	46
99	Honduras	46
100	Gabon *	48
101	Suriname	48
102	Nicaragua *	51
103	Philippines	53
104	Algeria *	54
105	East Timor	59
106	Equatorial Guinea *	67
107	South Africa	68
108	Cambodia	68
109	Haiti *	69
110	Bhutan	73
111	Kyrgyzstan *	74
112	Tunisia	76
113	Namibia	76
114	Guinea	80
115	Solomon Islands *	80
116	Armenia	81
117	Tajikistan *	81
118	Indonesia	83
119	eSwatini	84
120	Ivory Coast	87
121	Botswana	90
122	Papua New Guinea *	92
123	Nepal	95
124	India	97
125	Zimbabwe *	100
126	Sudan	102
127	Cameroon *	105
128	Laos	105
129	Ghana	108
130	Chad	115
131	Eritrea *	115
132	Senegal	118
133	Afghanistan	120
134	Mali	123
135	Sri Lanka	124
136	Myanmar	128
137	Liberia	133
138	Syria *	139
139	Mozambique	139
140	Benin	144
141	Guinea-Bissau	144
142	Bangladesh	150
143	Zambia	153
144	Egypt	154
145	Democratic Republic of the Congo	156
146	United Republic of Tanzania	160
147	Togo	166
148	Niger	173
149	Pakistan	178
150	Republic of the Congo *	180
151	Malawi *	183
152	Burkina Faso	186
153	Ethiopia	196
154	Sierra Leone *	202
155	Lesotho	220
156	Gambia	225
157	Central African Republic *	229
158	Angola	241
159	Uganda	251
160	Rwanda	263
161	Kenya	302
162	Madagascar	302
163	Nigeria	367
164	Burundi	615

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.