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Explore how minimum wage compares to Big Mac prices in Egypt, and how many burgers you can earn with 1 hour of work.

Minimum wage (gross)
EGP 33.65
/ hour
Big Mac price
EGP 125
Burgers per hour
0.27
You can buy about 0 burgers in 1 hour
Work time for 1 Big Mac
3h 42m

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How we calculate burgers per hour

Minimum wage / hour
EGP 33.65
÷
Big Mac price
EGP 125
=
Burgers per hour
0.27

Converted from EGP 7,000 / month at 48 h/week

Neighbouring ranks

  1. 71Qatar0.28
  2. 72Lebanon0.28
  3. 73Egypt0.27
  4. 74Kuwait0.26
  5. 75Argentina0.23

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Minimum wage (gross)

Source: Egypt State Information Service (SIS) - official government portal · effective Mar 1, 2025

Egypt State Information Service (SIS) - official government portal

Standard adult full-time private-sector monthly minimum wage of EGP 7,000, set by the National Council of Wages effective 1 March 2025 (raised from EGP 6,000 in April 2024). This is the tier covering the largest group of workers. Weekly hours used = 48 per Egyptian Labour Law No. 12 of 2003 (max 8 hrs/day, 48 hrs/week). Caveats/tiers: (1) Businesses with fewer than 10 workers are exempt. (2) A separate part-time/temporary minimum of EGP 28/hour was introduced in the same decision. (3) Public-sector minimum wage is rising to EGP 8,000/month from July 2026, and a matching private-sector increase to EGP 8,000 is widely expected but had NOT been formally enacted as of 2026-06-19, so EGP 7,000 remains the current statutory private-sector rate. Annual periodic raise floor of 3% of social-insurance wage (min EGP 250/month) also applies.

Big Mac price: The Economist · Jan 1, 2026

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