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The iPhone Workday
How many days you work for one iPhone 16 Pro.
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
38h 3m
🇨🇭Switzerland
Median
90h 35m
18 countries
Hardest
1347h 53m
🇮🇳India
Spread
×35
easiest → hardest
Time worked per iPhone
- 1🇨🇭Switzerland$32.50/h38h 3m
- 2🇳🇴Norway$27.00/h48h 38m
- 3🇦🇺Australia$21.50/h57h 9m
- 4🇨🇦Canada$17.50/h66h 31m
- 5🇺🇸United States$18.00/h66h 37m
- 6🇩🇪Germany$18.50/h71h
- 7🇬🇧United Kingdom$19.50/h71h 42m
- 8🇸🇬Singapore$16.50/h80h 58m
- 9🇫🇷France$16.20/h83h 7m
- 10🇰🇷South Korea$14.20/h90h 35m
- 11🇯🇵Japan$12.50/h93h 33m
- 12🇭🇰Hong Kong$11.00/h110h 27m
- 13🇪🇸Spain$11.80/h114h 7m
- 14🇨🇳China$4.80/h259h 6m
- 15🇲🇽Mexico$3.40/h380h 14m
- 16🇧🇷Brazil$3.80/h582h 49m
- 17🇹🇷Turkey$3.20/h827h 9m
- 18🇮🇳India$1.20/h1347h 53m
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.