Work hours to buy…

Work hours to buy MacBook Pro, ranked by country

For each country below, this is how many hours someone earning the local median wage must work to afford MacBook Pro. 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 42 hours) and most demanding in Burundi (about 15,377 hours) across 164 countries with sourced wage data.

#	Country	Work hours
1	Switzerland	42
2	Luxembourg	47
3	Belgium	56
4	Denmark	59
5	Iceland	61
6	Norway	64
7	Netherlands	67
8	United Arab Emirates *	68
9	Austria	73
10	Finland	74
11	United States of America	75
12	Canada	75
13	Ireland	84
14	Sweden	88
15	New Zealand	92
16	Singapore	92
17	Australia	102
18	Japan	108
19	Qatar *	109
20	Germany	109
21	United Kingdom	116
22	Israel	118
23	Slovenia	120
24	Spain	127
25	Iran *	129
26	Hong Kong	133
27	Estonia	142
28	Czechia	151
29	Cyprus	153
30	Croatia	163
31	New Caledonia	178
32	Lithuania	181
33	France	181
34	Latvia	183
35	Saudi Arabia *	187
36	Kuwait *	199
37	Italy	202
38	Greenland *	202
39	Puerto Rico	205
40	The Bahamas	208
41	South Korea	219
42	Poland	225
43	Brunei *	229
44	Romania	255
45	Slovakia	263
46	Portugal	263
47	Hungary	309
48	Oman *	325
49	Republic of Serbia	338
50	Bulgaria	339
51	Mauritania	346
52	Greece	347
53	Uruguay	348
54	Bosnia and Herzegovina	361
55	Palestine	382
56	Russia *	396
57	Costa Rica	404
58	Malaysia *	409
59	Montenegro *	428
60	Trinidad and Tobago	440
61	Chile	483
62	Jamaica *	504
63	Panama *	519
64	Turkey	568
65	Argentina	573
66	China *	581
67	North Macedonia *	623
68	Lebanon	640
69	Albania *	668
70	Belize	674
71	Belarus *	677
72	Mexico	732
73	Ecuador	737
74	Djibouti	770
75	Brazil	789
76	Fiji	807
77	Peru	813
78	Kosovo *	817
79	Paraguay	824
80	Moldova	826
81	Mongolia	881
82	Colombia	884
83	Dominican Republic	888
84	Libya *	896
85	Uzbekistan *	914
86	Bolivia	922
87	El Salvador	960
88	Azerbaijan *	962
89	Kazakhstan *	974
90	Jordan	984
91	Thailand	1,004
92	Guyana	1,032
93	Vanuatu *	1,055
94	Ukraine *	1,056
95	Guatemala	1,058
96	Morocco *	1,110
97	Iraq *	1,123
98	Georgia	1,138
99	Honduras	1,159
100	Gabon *	1,193
101	Suriname	1,199
102	Nicaragua *	1,277
103	Philippines	1,334
104	Algeria *	1,346
105	South Africa	1,473
106	East Timor	1,485
107	Equatorial Guinea *	1,685
108	Cambodia	1,709
109	Haiti *	1,728
110	Bhutan	1,816
111	Kyrgyzstan *	1,858
112	Tunisia	1,888
113	Namibia	1,911
114	Guinea	1,989
115	Solomon Islands *	1,991
116	Armenia	2,027
117	Tajikistan *	2,036
118	eSwatini	2,106
119	Ivory Coast	2,175
120	Botswana	2,256
121	Papua New Guinea *	2,303
122	Nepal	2,383
123	Zimbabwe *	2,496
124	Indonesia	2,502
125	Sudan	2,550
126	Cameroon *	2,627
127	Laos	2,630
128	Ghana	2,694
129	India	2,754
130	Chad	2,880
131	Eritrea *	2,885
132	Senegal	2,953
133	Afghanistan	2,993
134	Mali	3,066
135	Sri Lanka	3,104
136	Myanmar	3,193
137	Liberia	3,326
138	Syria *	3,464
139	Mozambique	3,477
140	Benin	3,595
141	Guinea-Bissau	3,602
142	Bangladesh	3,758
143	Zambia	3,830
144	Egypt	3,852
145	Democratic Republic of the Congo	3,889
146	United Republic of Tanzania	3,998
147	Togo	4,156
148	Niger	4,327
149	Pakistan	4,452
150	Republic of the Congo *	4,492
151	Malawi *	4,585
152	Burkina Faso	4,660
153	Ethiopia	4,888
154	Sierra Leone *	5,048
155	Lesotho	5,492
156	Gambia	5,615
157	Central African Republic *	5,728
158	Angola	6,021
159	Uganda	6,266
160	Rwanda	6,576
161	Kenya	7,543
162	Madagascar	7,543
163	Nigeria	9,170
164	Burundi	15,377

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.