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Rank   Countries  Amount  (top to bottom)   
#1   Ireland: 64 minutes 
#2   Japan: 41 minutes 
#3   Italy: 33 minutes 
#4   France: 32 minutes 
#5   Australia: 27 minutes 
#6   United Kingdom: 24 minutes 
#7   Norway: 23 minutes 
#8   Switzerland: 22 minutes 
#9   Austria: 22 minutes 
#10   Belgium: 21 minutes 
#11   New Zealand: 19 minutes 
#12   Canada: 16 minutes 
#13   Finland: 14 minutes 
#14   United States: 12 minutes 
#15   Denmark: 11 minutes 
#16   Germany: 8 minutes 
Weighted average: 24.3 minutes  


DEFINITION: Number of minutes worked by average worker to buy one kilo of chicken. The comparison of income levels only becomes meaningful if the cost of buying the necessities and luxuries of life is also considered.

SOURCE: International Metalworkers' Federation, The Purchasing Power of Working Time 2002: An International Comparison of Average Net Hourly Earnings 2001 (International Metalworkers' Federation, Geneva, 2002)

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Paul (Dublin)
12th June 2006
I can assure you it does not cost 64 mins work in Ireland to buy a chicken. The minimum wage anyone can be paid legally for doing anything is 7.50 ph. This will buy two large chickens.


http://www.buy4now.ie/superquinn/shopping.aspx?location=S&catid=700204&loadcats=1&bottomlevel=1

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