A Russian with an average salary of 66,645 rubles will have to save all the money earned in 46.3 days to buy a new Apple flagship, a Picodi study shows. This result is 6.6 days worse than last year.
Picodi Russia analysts compared local prices for the iPhone 15 Pro (128 GB) with salaries and calculated the “iPhone index”, that is, the cost of a smartphone expressed in working days.
In Russia, the new flagship in the basic configuration, the iPhone 15 Pro with 128 GB, was priced at 146,990 rubles (40,000 rubles more than last year).
The average salary in Russia, according to Rosstat, is 76,604 rubles, or 66,645 rubles after taxes. Thus, the average Russian needs 46.3 working days to raise money to buy an iPhone 15 Pro, as long as he saves all the money earned during those days.
Compared to last year’s “iPhone index”, the number of working days required in Russia increased by 6.6 days.
How has the “iPhone rate” been in Russia over the last 6 years?
- 2023 – 46.3 days.
- 2022 – 39.7 days;
- 2021 – 42.1 days;
- 2020 – 47.5 days;
- 2019 – 47 days;
- 2018 – 48.2 days;
The leader of the ranking is Switzerland: the average resident of this country needs 4.2 working days to buy a new iPhone. The average American must work 5.3 days and the average Australian must work 6.3 days. The countries outside the ranking were Turkey (123.7 working days), the Philippines (79.5 days) and Brazil (66.6 days).
Author:
Anastasia Marina
Source: RB
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