Work hours to buy…

Work hours to buy PlayStation 5, ranked by country

For each country below, this is how many hours someone earning the local median wage must work to afford PlayStation 5. 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 14 hours) and most demanding in Burundi (about 5,000 hours) across 164 countries with sourced wage data.

#	Country	Work hours
1	Switzerland	14
2	Luxembourg	15
3	Belgium	18
4	Denmark	19
5	Iceland	20
6	Norway	21
7	Netherlands	22
8	United Arab Emirates *	22
9	Austria	24
10	Finland	24
11	United States of America	24
12	Ireland	27
13	United Kingdom	28
14	Germany	28
15	Sweden	29
16	Canada	29
17	New Zealand	30
18	Singapore	30
19	Australia	30
20	Qatar *	35
21	Israel	38
22	Slovenia	39
23	Spain	41
24	Iran *	42
25	Hong Kong	43
26	Japan	46
27	Estonia	46
28	France	47
29	Czechia	49
30	Cyprus	50
31	Croatia	53
32	New Caledonia	58
33	Lithuania	59
34	Latvia	60
35	Saudi Arabia *	61
36	Kuwait *	65
37	South Korea	66
38	Italy	66
39	Greenland *	66
40	Puerto Rico	67
41	The Bahamas	68
42	Poland	73
43	Brunei *	74
44	Romania	83
45	Slovakia	85
46	Portugal	86
47	Hungary	100
48	Oman *	106
49	Republic of Serbia	110
50	Bulgaria	110
51	Mauritania	112
52	Greece	113
53	Uruguay	113
54	Bosnia and Herzegovina	117
55	Palestine	124
56	Russia *	129
57	Costa Rica	132
58	Malaysia *	133
59	Montenegro *	139
60	Trinidad and Tobago	143
61	Chile	157
62	Jamaica *	164
63	Panama *	169
64	Turkey	185
65	Argentina	186
66	China *	197
67	North Macedonia *	202
68	Lebanon	208
69	Albania *	217
70	Belize	219
71	Belarus *	220
72	Mexico	238
73	Ecuador	240
74	Djibouti	250
75	Brazil	257
76	Fiji	262
77	Peru	264
78	Kosovo *	266
79	Paraguay	268
80	Moldova	269
81	Mongolia	286
82	Colombia	287
83	Dominican Republic	289
84	Libya *	291
85	Uzbekistan *	297
86	Bolivia	300
87	El Salvador	312
88	Azerbaijan *	313
89	Kazakhstan *	317
90	Jordan	320
91	Thailand	326
92	Guyana	336
93	Vanuatu *	343
94	Ukraine *	343
95	Guatemala	344
96	Morocco *	361
97	Iraq *	365
98	Georgia	370
99	Honduras	377
100	Gabon *	388
101	Suriname	390
102	Nicaragua *	415
103	Philippines	434
104	Algeria *	438
105	South Africa	479
106	East Timor	483
107	Equatorial Guinea *	548
108	Cambodia	556
109	Haiti *	562
110	Bhutan	590
111	Kyrgyzstan *	604
112	Tunisia	614
113	Namibia	621
114	Guinea	647
115	Solomon Islands *	647
116	Armenia	659
117	Tajikistan *	662
118	eSwatini	685
119	Ivory Coast	707
120	Botswana	734
121	Papua New Guinea *	749
122	Nepal	775
123	Zimbabwe *	811
124	Indonesia	814
125	Sudan	829
126	Cameroon *	854
127	Laos	855
128	Ghana	876
129	Chad	937
130	Eritrea *	938
131	Senegal	960
132	Afghanistan	973
133	Mali	997
134	India	1,002
135	Sri Lanka	1,009
136	Myanmar	1,038
137	Liberia	1,082
138	Syria *	1,126
139	Mozambique	1,130
140	Benin	1,169
141	Guinea-Bissau	1,171
142	Bangladesh	1,222
143	Zambia	1,245
144	Egypt	1,252
145	Democratic Republic of the Congo	1,265
146	United Republic of Tanzania	1,300
147	Togo	1,351
148	Niger	1,407
149	Pakistan	1,448
150	Republic of the Congo *	1,461
151	Malawi *	1,491
152	Burkina Faso	1,515
153	Ethiopia	1,589
154	Sierra Leone *	1,641
155	Lesotho	1,786
156	Gambia	1,826
157	Central African Republic *	1,862
158	Angola	1,958
159	Uganda	2,038
160	Rwanda	2,138
161	Kenya	2,453
162	Madagascar	2,453
163	Nigeria	2,982
164	Burundi	5,000

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.