Sunday, August 23, 2009

An alternative Big Mac index

How many minutes to earn the price of a Big Mac?
Aug 20th 2009
From Economist.com

THE size of your pay packet may be important, but so is its purchasing power. Helpfully, a UBS report published this week offers a handy guide to how long it takes a worker on the average net wage to earn the price of a Big Mac in 73 cities. Fast-food junkies are best off in Chicago, Toronto and Tokyo, where it takes a mere 12 minutes at work to afford a Big Mac. By contrast, employees must toil for over two hours to earn enough for a burger fix in Mexico City, Jakarta and Nairobi. Here image

1 Comments:

At 11:41 PM, Anonymous James Manley said...

Notice how different the UK Big Mac looks in the pic at the article from the US Big Mac.

Also, the last I was there, McDonald's didn't have any franchises in Nairobi. A quick google shows there still aren't.

I am passionate about orthodox Anglicanism, and passionate about fast food trivia. :)

 

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