How it works
If you earn $30,000 annually and are considering a $1000 smart phone, then you know how expensive that phone feels: the price of that phone is 1/30th of your salary, so about two weeks of pay – a significant sum. But what would that same phone feel like for someone earning six figures? How about someone earning minimum wage?
To find out, this tool calculates what percentage of someone else’s salary that phone represents, and then applies that percentage to your own salary to show the phone as if it were priced at that same fraction of your own salary.
That way you can experience how relative prices feel from the perspective of someone in a different economic condition from your own.
Calculator
| 1. Select your own annual income | 2. Choose another person's perspective |
|---|---|
List of prices {{otherincome[1]}} earning {{usd2(otherincome[0])}} per year experiences, scaled to your ${{myincome[1]}} income.
| Buying | Real Price | Feels like |
|---|---|---|
| {{price[0]}} | {{price[2]}} | {{price[1]}} |
Data sources
https://www.bls.gov/careeroutlook/2018/data-on-display/education-pays.htm https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/NY,CA,TX,IL,FL,NJ/BZA115220 https://nfwm.org/farm-workers/farm-worker-issues/low-wages/#:~:text=Based%20on%20the%20most%20recent,has%20not%20increased%20since%202009. https://www.salary.com/research/salary/benchmark/teacher-elementary-school-salary/ar https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm https://www.ziprecruiter.com/Salaries/What-Is-the-Average-Architect-Salary-by-State https://www.indeed.com/cmp/McDonald's/salaries https://www.goarmy.com/benefits/money/basic-pay-active-duty-soldiers.html