iPhone 18 Pro €1,479
82 hours of work
The first two weeks of January, and the third until Monday 11 am.
Joint 15th of 28. In Switzerland the same phone takes 30 hours; in Türkiye, 487.
The Hours Index · Belgium mist.huliwood.com
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I take home a year.
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The sums
The average full-time worker in Belgium earns €62,348 a year before tax and takes home €37,691 after income tax and social security contributions (OECD, 2025, a single worker without children). Divided by 2,080 working hours, an hour of work pays €18.12.
An iPhone 18 Pro: €1,479 ÷ €18.12 = 82 hours. The first two weeks of January, and the third until Monday 11 am.
A Tesla Model Y: €39,990 ÷ €18.12 = 2,207 hours. A whole working year, and the next until late January.
A Big Mac: €5.39 ÷ €18.12 = 0.30 hours, or 18 minutes.
The Tesla: Tesla's Belgian site shows €40,990: this price plus the €990 destination and documentation fee and a €10 recycling fee. Hours count 52 weeks of 40, whatever people in Belgium actually work. More in what the index leaves out.
Against the other 37
iPhone 18 Pro joint 15th of 28
- 1Switzerland CHF 1,199 30 hours
- 11 more
- 13Sweden SEK 16,495 80 hours
- 14New Zealand NZ$2,549 81 hours
- 15Belgium €1,479 82 hours
- 15Finland €1,509 82 hours
- 17South Korea ₩1,990,000 87 hours
- 10 more
- 28Türkiye (see the note) ₺137,999 487 hours
Tesla Model Y 16th of 37
- 1Switzerland CHF 40,990 1,033 hours
- 12 more
- 14New Zealand (see the note) NZ$67,900 2,147 hours
- 15South Korea (see the note) ₩49,990,000 2,195 hours
- 16Belgium €39,990 2,207 hours
- 17Finland €41,990 2,272 hours
- 18Sweden SEK 490,810 2,369 hours
- 18 more
- 37Mexico MX$799,000 8,716 hours
Big Mac joint 14th of 36
- 1Switzerland CHF 7.30 11 minutes
- 10 more
- 9Norway NOK 78 17 minutes
- 9Israel ₪23 17 minutes
- 14Belgium €5.39 18 minutes
- 14Ireland €6.60 18 minutes
- 16Sweden SEK 69 20 minutes
- 19 more
- 36Colombia (see the note) COP 25,900 102 minutes
Sources
Pay: OECD, Taxing Wages 2026: net take-home pay of a single worker without children on 100% of the average wage, 2025 (the OECD's own estimate, as for most countries).
Prices, checked 29 September 2026: Apple, the iPhone 18 Pro with 256 GB; Tesla, the cheapest Model Y on sale; The Economist, the Big Mac index, July 2026 (data, CC BY 4.0).