If you think iPhones
are pricey, spare a thought for those who have to work months to afford one.
The average New
Yorker has to work just three days to be able to buy a new iPhone 6; Beijing
residents have to spend 27 days at the office.
That's according
to a new index of pay and prices in 71 global cities, compiled by Swiss bank
UBS and published last week.
The ranking,
which is published every three years, shows the wealthy residents of Zurich
have to work the least, putting in just under 21 hours on the job before
earning the cash for the must-have gadget.
Londoners have to
slog a little more -- 41 hours -- while workers in Mexico City have to put in
well over 200 hours, putting the luxury item out of reach for many.
The researchers
found that Kiev has the worst iPhone affordability -- Ukrainians have to work
an average of 627 hours -- or 78 days.
In Nairobi and
Jakarta they have to clock up 468 hours, or nearly 59 days.
Below is a list
of the working hours required to buy an iPhone 6 (16GB) in each of these global
cities, according to UBS:
- Athens - 98.2 hours
- Bangkok - 149.6 hours
- Beijing - 217.8 hours
- Chicago - 28.4 hours
- Geneva - 21.6 hours
- Hong Kong - 51.9 hours
- Jakarta - 468 hours
- Kiev - 627.2 hours
- London - 41.2 hours
- Los Angeles - 27.2 hours
- Mexico City - 217.6 hours
- Miami - 27 hours
- Moscow - 158.3 hours
- Nairobi - 468 hours
- New Delhi - 360.3 hours
- New York City - 24 hours
- Paris - 42.2 hours
- Rio de Janeiro - 139.9 hours
- Rome - 53.7 hours
- Shanghai - 163.8 hours
- Sydney - 34 hours
- Tel Aviv - 75.3 hours
- Tokyo - 40.5 hours
- Toronto - 37.2 hours
- Zurich - 20.6 hours
edited from CNN
