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

Minimum wage (gross)
PKR 192
/ hour
Big Mac price
PKR 1,080
Burgers per hour
0.18
You can buy about 0 burgers in 1 hour
Work time for 1 Big Mac
5h 36m

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Minimum wage / hour
PKR 192
÷
Big Mac price
PKR 1,080
=
Burgers per hour
0.18

Converted from PKR 40,000 / month at 48 h/week

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Minimum wage (gross)

Source: WageIndicator.org (Pakistan), corroborated by Business Recorder and provincial gazette notifications · effective Jul 1, 2025

WageIndicator.org (Pakistan), corroborated by Business Recorder and provincial gazette notifications

Labour is a devolved (provincial) subject in Pakistan; rates are set by provincial Minimum Wage Boards, so there is no single uniform national figure. For unskilled adult workers effective 1 July 2025: Punjab, Sindh, and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa = PKR 40,000/month (notified Jul-Sep 2025); the federal government kept the Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) rate and Balochistan at PKR 37,000/month for FY2025-26 (Finance Minister confirmed federal rate unchanged). Reported figure = PKR 40,000 because Punjab alone (most populous province) plus Sindh and KPK cover the large majority of the workforce. Tier chosen: unskilled adult full-time worker (lowest/base category). Weekly hours = 48 (standard 8 hrs/day x 6 days; Sindh notification cites 26 working days/month, daily PKR 1,538, hourly PKR 192). Per task rules, hourly not computed. Federal/ICT alternative = PKR 37,000/month.

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