and in between mi 'La Roux'-ing (Desperately trying to find her album!! RAWR), managed to come across a price and earnings report on the net and here are some interesting excerpts:
- People in Cairo and Seoul work the longest – roughly 600 hours more per year than their peers in Western Europe
- The average employee in Delhi, Manila, Jakarta and Mumbai earns less than one-fifteenth of Swiss hourly wages after taxes.
- A dollar earned in the US is worth more after deducting taxes and social security contributions than in neighboring Canada. (AWESOME!! HAHAAHA)
- The study determined that employees have to work a global average of 37 minutes to earn enough to pay for a Big Mac, 22 minutes for a kilo of rice and 25 minutes for a kilo of bread.
- Workers in Mumbai, need to work 20 nine-hour days – roughly the equivalent of one month's salary – to purchase an iPod nano, while An average wage-earner in Zurich and New York can buy a nano from an Apple store after nine hours of work.(WHAT A CONTRAST..maybe newyorkers get the china imitation ones!!! LOL)
