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The Workday Index
How long you work to buy one Big Mac.
The product is a constant — same spec, same brand. But the time it takes to earn one isn't. We divide each country's local price by the median net hourly wage. The result is the workday cost — the same item, priced in labour.
Easiest
13m
🇦🇺Australia
Median
22m
23 countries
Hardest
2h 47m
🇦🇷Argentina
Spread
×13
easiest → hardest
Time worked per Workday
- 1🇦🇺Australia$21.50/h13m
- 2🇨🇭Switzerland$32.50/h15m
- 3🇳🇴Norway$27.00/h15m
- 4🇯🇵Japan$12.50/h15m
- 5🇭🇰Hong Kong$11.00/h17m
- 6🇸🇬Singapore$16.50/h17m
- 7🇨🇦Canada$17.50/h18m
- 8🇬🇧United Kingdom$19.50/h19m
- 9🇺🇸United States$18.00/h19m
- 10🇰🇷South Korea$14.20/h20m
- 11🇩🇪Germany$18.50/h20m
- 12🇫🇷France$16.20/h22m
- 13🇪🇸Spain$11.80/h30m
- 14🇨🇳China$4.80/h43m
- 15🇲🇾Malaysia$3.20/h49m
- 16🇹🇭Thailand$3.20/h1h 11m
- 17🇲🇽Mexico$3.40/h1h 20m
- 18🇧🇷Brazil$3.80/h1h 22m
- 19🇻🇳Vietnam$1.80/h1h 38m
- 20🇹🇷Turkey$3.20/h2h 18m
- 21🇮🇳India$1.20/h2h 18m
- 22🇮🇩Indonesia$1.40/h2h 41m
- 23🇦🇷Argentina$2.40/h2h 47m
Wage figures are median net hourly estimates for 2024-2025, drawn from ILO/OECD/Numbeo cross-checks. Treated as estimated until manually verified per country.