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How expensive The iPhone 15 is around the world (i.imgur.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Worth mentioning that this looks to be based on mean salaries rather than median so your real world percentages would likely be higher.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The footnote explicitly says “median”. What makes you doubt that?

[–] lustrum 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Calculating the UK out:

£799 for the phone
2.91% of pay
Salary they calculated it at is £27,457

That sits abit lower than the median here in the UK but the mean is much higher

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The UK government says the median household income is 32,349£, the mean is 39,328£ in 2022. Data from 2020: the median was 29,900£, while the mean was 36,900£.

In both cases the median comes way closer to the £27,457 you calculated than the mean.

[–] lustrum 3 points 11 months ago

Agreed

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

No, it literally says it's based on the median at the bottom.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

I assume it is based on net income, correct?