Price of a pint

Sep 26, 2012 18:16

The Economist had a nice chart showing long you have to work to earn 500ml of beer. However, they didn't include a link to the original report and didn't include Ireland (for shame, tomorrow is Arthur's day)

I can find the average hourly wage on the CSO site and it looks like the average is usually about 120% of the median, so I reckon the median ( Read more... )

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fanf September 26 2012, 19:49:37 UTC
473ml is a US pint. Doesn't Ireland use 568ml Imperial pints?

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dwmalone September 26 2012, 20:17:11 UTC
Oops - yes - good point. I was slightly suprised when I asked Google for the number, but assumed I'd misremembered some number like grams in a pound. So, closer to 13 minutes!

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