10 February 2014

Chart: Minimum Wage Hours Needed To Buy A Beer





News outlet Quartz has come up with a sobering beer index showing ‘How many hours of minimum wage work it takes to earn a beer’ in different states and countries around the world.



It was tabulated by dividing the average price locals pay for a beer by the hourly minimum wage of a standard 40-hour work week.



Georgia is right at the bottom, where it takes more than half a day just to earn a pint, whereas in Puerto Rico it takes only 12 minutes.



Beer-lovers, that’s all the reason you need to make the big move.



Check out the full infographic for more.



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[via Food Beast, images via Quartz]