An interesting elaboration has highlighted how much you have to work to buy an iPhone 13 not only in Italy, but also in many other countries
A provocation, of course, but it gives a perfect idea of how expensive an iPhone is in relation to the average salary in the different countries of the world where it is marketed. So, from the elaborations of moneysupermarket.com, come out some interesting data about Apple’s iPhone 13 and how much they are “really” expensive.
The high prices of iPhones have always been among the main topics on which the debate develops between fans and not of Apple. Sometimes, however, we don’t consider enough that the differences between incomes, at the same purchase price, mark the possibility to take home an object with effort or to do it with nonchalance, and the same happens among the inhabitants of the different nations where iPhones are sold. They took care of this in moneysupermarket.com, taking into consideration the average salary per country calculated by Our World In Data and a typical 8-hour workday of the country.
How much do you have to work to make an iPhone 13
First, a small summary, since to process the data were taken into account the iPhone in their basic configuration of memory, which this year is the same for all and fixed at 128 GB.
In Italy, Apple prices are 839 euros for iPhone 13 mini, 939 euros for iPhone 13, 1,189 euros for iPhone 13 Pro and finally 1,289 euros for iPhone 13 Pro Max. These are the prices, the official Apple ones, taken into account to calculate how much you have to work to buy an iPhone 13 in Italy.
That said, the calculations show that to get an iPhone 13 in the best case (the mini) requires 111 hours of work, that is 14 working days, for an iPhone 13 “standard” 124.3 hours of work, for an iPhone 13 Pro 157.3 hours and finally for an iPhone 13 Pro Max 170.6 hours of work, that is more than 21 working days, so a full month including Saturdays and Sundays.
And in the world?
That’s great for Apple fans who live and work in Switzerland, thanks to one of the highest average annual salaries in the world and equivalent to 67,600 euros: a Swiss needs 34 hours of work, that is less than a week, to buy the latest iPhone. What’s more, Switzerland is in the top 10 countries where iPhones cost the least, despite (very) high salaries.
On the contrary, enthusiasts who live and work in the Philippines are the ones who come out worst from this elaboration. There, a “standard” iPhone 13 costs the equivalent of 875 euros (64 euros less than in Italy), but the significantly lower average annual salary means that a Filipino enthusiast would have to work an average of 775 hours before being able to afford an iPhone 13, so he or she would have to spend nothing (not even on food) for 97 days or so before having enough money.
The world’s most expensive iPhone 13, on the other hand, is in Brazil, where it takes the equivalent of 1,236 euros, while the cheapest is purchased in Hong Kong where the 128 GB variant costs the equivalent of 745 euros, 3 euros less, paradoxically, than the American average.