Work hours to buy…

Work hours to buy MacBook Neo, ranked by country

For each country below, this is how many hours someone earning the local median wage must work to afford MacBook Neo. 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 15 hours) and most demanding in Burundi (about 5,377 hours) across 164 countries with sourced wage data.

#	Country	Work hours
1	Switzerland	15
2	Luxembourg	17
3	Belgium	20
4	Denmark	21
5	Iceland	21
6	Norway	22
7	Netherlands	24
8	United Arab Emirates *	24
9	Canada	25
10	Austria	26
11	Finland	26
12	United States of America	26
13	Ireland	29
14	Sweden	31
15	New Zealand	32
16	Singapore	32
17	Australia	34
18	Germany	35
19	Qatar *	38
20	United Kingdom	41
21	Israel	41
22	Slovenia	42
23	Japan	43
24	Spain	44
25	Iran *	45
26	Hong Kong	46
27	Estonia	50
28	Czechia	53
29	Cyprus	53
30	Croatia	57
31	France	57
32	New Caledonia	62
33	Lithuania	63
34	Latvia	64
35	Saudi Arabia *	65
36	Kuwait *	70
37	Italy	71
38	Greenland *	71
39	Puerto Rico	72
40	The Bahamas	73
41	Poland	79
42	South Korea	79
43	Brunei *	80
44	Romania	89
45	Slovakia	92
46	Portugal	92
47	Hungary	108
48	Oman *	114
49	Republic of Serbia	118
50	Bulgaria	119
51	Mauritania	121
52	Greece	121
53	Uruguay	122
54	Bosnia and Herzegovina	126
55	Palestine	133
56	Russia *	138
57	Costa Rica	141
58	Malaysia *	143
59	Montenegro *	150
60	Trinidad and Tobago	154
61	Chile	169
62	Jamaica *	176
63	Panama *	181
64	Turkey	199
65	Argentina	200
66	China *	205
67	North Macedonia *	218
68	Lebanon	224
69	Albania *	234
70	Belize	236
71	Belarus *	237
72	Mexico	256
73	Ecuador	258
74	Djibouti	269
75	Brazil	276
76	Fiji	282
77	Peru	284
78	Kosovo *	286
79	Paraguay	288
80	Moldova	289
81	Mongolia	308
82	Colombia	309
83	Dominican Republic	311
84	Libya *	313
85	Uzbekistan *	320
86	Bolivia	322
87	El Salvador	336
88	Azerbaijan *	337
89	Kazakhstan *	340
90	Jordan	344
91	Thailand	351
92	Guyana	361
93	Vanuatu *	369
94	Ukraine *	369
95	Guatemala	370
96	Morocco *	388
97	Iraq *	393
98	Georgia	398
99	Honduras	405
100	Gabon *	417
101	Suriname	419
102	Nicaragua *	447
103	Philippines	467
104	Algeria *	471
105	South Africa	515
106	East Timor	519
107	Equatorial Guinea *	589
108	Cambodia	597
109	Haiti *	604
110	Bhutan	635
111	Kyrgyzstan *	650
112	Tunisia	660
113	Namibia	668
114	Guinea	696
115	Solomon Islands *	696
116	Armenia	709
117	Tajikistan *	712
118	eSwatini	737
119	Ivory Coast	761
120	Botswana	789
121	Papua New Guinea *	805
122	Nepal	833
123	Zimbabwe *	873
124	Indonesia	875
125	Sudan	892
126	Cameroon *	919
127	Laos	920
128	Ghana	942
129	Chad	1,007
130	Eritrea *	1,009
131	Senegal	1,032
132	Afghanistan	1,046
133	Mali	1,072
134	Sri Lanka	1,085
135	Myanmar	1,117
136	India	1,133
137	Liberia	1,163
138	Syria *	1,211
139	Mozambique	1,216
140	Benin	1,257
141	Guinea-Bissau	1,259
142	Bangladesh	1,314
143	Zambia	1,339
144	Egypt	1,347
145	Democratic Republic of the Congo	1,360
146	United Republic of Tanzania	1,398
147	Togo	1,453
148	Niger	1,513
149	Pakistan	1,557
150	Republic of the Congo *	1,571
151	Malawi *	1,603
152	Burkina Faso	1,629
153	Ethiopia	1,709
154	Sierra Leone *	1,765
155	Lesotho	1,920
156	Gambia	1,963
157	Central African Republic *	2,003
158	Angola	2,105
159	Uganda	2,191
160	Rwanda	2,299
161	Kenya	2,638
162	Madagascar	2,638
163	Nigeria	3,206
164	Burundi	5,377

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.