Work hours to buy…

Work hours to buy Steam Machine, ranked by country

For each country below, this is how many hours someone earning the local median wage must work to afford Steam Machine. 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 22 hours) and most demanding in Burundi (about 8,069 hours) across 164 countries with sourced wage data.

#	Country	Work hours
1	Switzerland	22
2	Luxembourg	25
3	Belgium	30
4	Denmark	31
5	Iceland	32
6	Norway	33
7	Netherlands	35
8	United Arab Emirates *	36
9	Austria	38
10	Finland	39
11	United States of America	39
12	Ireland	44
13	United Kingdom	46
14	Germany	46
15	Sweden	46
16	Canada	47
17	New Zealand	48
18	Singapore	48
19	Australia	48
20	Qatar *	57
21	Israel	62
22	Slovenia	63
23	Spain	66
24	Iran *	68
25	Hong Kong	70
26	Japan	74
27	Estonia	74
28	France	76
29	Czechia	79
30	Cyprus	80
31	Croatia	85
32	New Caledonia	94
33	Lithuania	95
34	Latvia	96
35	Saudi Arabia *	98
36	Kuwait *	105
37	South Korea	106
38	Italy	106
39	Greenland *	106
40	Puerto Rico	108
41	The Bahamas	109
42	Poland	118
43	Brunei *	120
44	Romania	134
45	Slovakia	138
46	Portugal	138
47	Hungary	162
48	Oman *	171
49	Republic of Serbia	177
50	Bulgaria	178
51	Mauritania	181
52	Greece	182
53	Uruguay	183
54	Bosnia and Herzegovina	190
55	Palestine	200
56	Russia *	208
57	Costa Rica	212
58	Malaysia *	215
59	Montenegro *	225
60	Trinidad and Tobago	231
61	Chile	253
62	Jamaica *	264
63	Panama *	272
64	Turkey	298
65	Argentina	301
66	China *	319
67	North Macedonia *	327
68	Lebanon	336
69	Albania *	351
70	Belize	354
71	Belarus *	355
72	Mexico	384
73	Ecuador	387
74	Djibouti	404
75	Brazil	414
76	Fiji	423
77	Peru	427
78	Kosovo *	429
79	Paraguay	433
80	Moldova	434
81	Mongolia	462
82	Colombia	464
83	Dominican Republic	466
84	Libya *	470
85	Uzbekistan *	480
86	Bolivia	484
87	El Salvador	504
88	Azerbaijan *	505
89	Kazakhstan *	511
90	Jordan	516
91	Thailand	527
92	Guyana	542
93	Vanuatu *	554
94	Ukraine *	554
95	Guatemala	555
96	Morocco *	582
97	Iraq *	589
98	Georgia	597
99	Honduras	608
100	Gabon *	626
101	Suriname	629
102	Nicaragua *	670
103	Philippines	700
104	Algeria *	706
105	South Africa	773
106	East Timor	779
107	Equatorial Guinea *	884
108	Cambodia	897
109	Haiti *	907
110	Bhutan	953
111	Kyrgyzstan *	975
112	Tunisia	991
113	Namibia	1,003
114	Guinea	1,044
115	Solomon Islands *	1,045
116	Armenia	1,064
117	Tajikistan *	1,068
118	eSwatini	1,105
119	Ivory Coast	1,141
120	Botswana	1,184
121	Papua New Guinea *	1,209
122	Nepal	1,250
123	Zimbabwe *	1,310
124	Indonesia	1,313
125	Sudan	1,338
126	Cameroon *	1,378
127	Laos	1,380
128	Ghana	1,414
129	Chad	1,512
130	Eritrea *	1,514
131	Senegal	1,549
132	Afghanistan	1,570
133	Mali	1,609
134	India	1,616
135	Sri Lanka	1,629
136	Myanmar	1,676
137	Liberia	1,745
138	Syria *	1,818
139	Mozambique	1,824
140	Benin	1,887
141	Guinea-Bissau	1,890
142	Bangladesh	1,972
143	Zambia	2,010
144	Egypt	2,021
145	Democratic Republic of the Congo	2,041
146	United Republic of Tanzania	2,098
147	Togo	2,181
148	Niger	2,271
149	Pakistan	2,336
150	Republic of the Congo *	2,357
151	Malawi *	2,406
152	Burkina Faso	2,445
153	Ethiopia	2,565
154	Sierra Leone *	2,649
155	Lesotho	2,882
156	Gambia	2,947
157	Central African Republic *	3,006
158	Angola	3,160
159	Uganda	3,288
160	Rwanda	3,451
161	Kenya	3,958
162	Madagascar	3,958
163	Nigeria	4,812
164	Burundi	8,069

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.