How many hours of work to afford this?
Pick any tracked PC-hardware product and any EU country. The tool divides the live PriceSquirrel price by that country's gross statutory hourly minimum wage (Eurostat, 2026 H1, before income tax and social contributions) to show how many hours of gross minimum-wage work the product costs.
Popular combinations
High-search-volume product × country pairs, indexed and ready to share. Every other combination still works — but those are on-demand only.
How this is calculated
For each supported EU country, we take the cheapest fresh in-stock price from a retailer that ships to that country (the same eligibility rules as our regular product-page price tables). We divide by an hourly minimum-wage rate derived as gross monthly minimum wage ÷ 173.33 (40 hours per week × 52 ÷ 12 months), matching Eurostat's standard full-time conversion.
The country figures are gross, before income tax and employee social contributions. Actual take-home pay — and therefore the real hours someone needs to work to buy the product — is higher. If you want the comparison against your own take-home pay, switch to the “Use my own take-home wage” mode in the picker and enter your net hourly rate.
Six EU-27 countries (Austria, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, Italy, Sweden) have no statutory minimum wage — wages are set by collective bargaining sector by sector. Those countries appear in the ranking with their live product price but no hours figure.
UK and US are included as reference wages (UK National Living Wage £12.71/hr, US federal $7.25/hr, California $16.50/hr) but PriceSquirrel doesn't track UK or US retailers — those rows use the cheapest tracked EU price and are labelled accordingly. Treat them as cross-country wage comparisons, not local buying guides.
Sources — Product prices: pricesquirrel.com live EU tracker, refreshed every 6 hours. EU gross minimum wages: Eurostat “Monthly minimum wages” (earn_mw_cur), 2026 H1 release. Hourly = monthly ÷ 173.33 hrs. UK figure: gov.uk National Living Wage, 2026/27 rate. US figures: US Department of Labor (federal), CA DIR (state).