Overview

• The United States ranks third, with the average worker needing just under four days to buy the iPhone 17 Pro, trailing Luxembourg and Switzerland at about three days.
• Canada requires about five days and ranks 13th, with a roughly 5% U.S.-dollar price premium on the 256GB model and an official Canadian starting price of CAD $1,599.
• Affordability gaps are stark, with India at 160 days, the Philippines at 101 days, and Vietnam at 99 days, against a global average near 26 days.
• Tenscope’s calculations rely on Apple’s official pricing, ILO wage data for 33 countries and U.S. BLS data, converting average earnings into eight-hour workdays.
• National differences reflect import duties, taxes, local mark-ups, logistics costs and exchange rates, while Apple’s removal of the 128GB Pro raises the baseline used in the index ahead of the Sept. 19 rollout.