The best salary...

... not necessarily means the best life.

THis week UBS (Price and salary, 2009) published as a result of its research that Zürich, Geneva, New York, Dublin and Luxembourg are the cities with the best payments per hour. The first two receive, respectively, 26 fr.10 and 23 fr. 50. On the other hand, New Deli, Manille and Jakarta are on the other extreme with salaries almost 15 times smaller than the above mentioned.

Also, maybe because the salaries are better, citizens of these cities pay 20% more for goods, services and rent when compared to other west European cities. Tokyo represents the place where you pay more to eat, followed by Zurich and then Geneva. Amazing!

Also, the newspaper that published the article made a comparison: how many hours somebody from these cities needs to work to buy an small 8 Gb-iPod Nano? In Zurich someone who earns a middle salary can gift himself with one of this gadget after working 9 hours. In Geneva, one needs 10 hours. In India, one needs 20 days!

So...let's make better usage of our money, like maybe work approximately 432 days to buy a 11 234 sfr watch...