iPhone 18 Pro €1,489
69 hours of work
The first week of January, and the next until Thursday 2 pm.
Tenth of 28. In Switzerland the same phone takes 30 hours; in Türkiye, 487.
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The sums
The average full-time worker in Ireland earns €60,258 a year before tax and takes home €45,130 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 €21.70.
An iPhone 18 Pro: €1,489 ÷ €21.70 = 69 hours. The first week of January, and the next until Thursday 2 pm.
A Tesla Model Y: €44,339 ÷ €21.70 = 2,043 hours. January to late December.
A Big Mac: €6.60 ÷ €21.70 = 0.30 hours, or 18 minutes.
The Tesla: Tesla's €42,990 plus the €1,349 Vehicle Registration Tax. Before Tesla's €980 destination and documentation fee and a €13.78 tyre recycling fee, and before the €3,500 SEAI grant the site deducts (Tesla's site shows €41,832 in all). Hours count 52 weeks of 40, whatever people in Ireland actually work. More in what the index leaves out.
Against the other 37
iPhone 18 Pro tenth of 28
- 1Switzerland CHF 1,199 30 hours
- 6 more
- 8Netherlands €1,479 62 hours
- 9Denmark DKK 10,999 66 hours
- 10Ireland €1,489 69 hours
- 11Austria €1,449 71 hours
- 12Germany €1,449 74 hours
- 15 more
- 28Türkiye (see the note) ₺137,999 487 hours
Tesla Model Y 13th of 37
- 1Switzerland CHF 40,990 1,033 hours
- 9 more
- 11Austria €40,990 2,002 hours
- 12Germany €39,990 2,034 hours
- 13Ireland €44,339 2,043 hours
- 14New Zealand (see the note) NZ$67,900 2,147 hours
- 15South Korea (see the note) ₩49,990,000 2,195 hours
- 21 more
- 37Mexico MX$799,000 8,716 hours
Big Mac joint 14th of 36
- 1Switzerland CHF 7.30 11 minutes
- 11 more
- 9Israel ₪23 17 minutes
- 14Belgium €5.39 18 minutes
- 14Ireland €6.60 18 minutes
- 16Sweden SEK 69 20 minutes
- 17Finland €6.35 21 minutes
- 18 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).