Check Out How Many Minutes A McDonald's Employee Has To Work In Order To Afford A Big Mac

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http://www.businessinsider.com/the-number-of-minutes-a-mcdonalds-employee-must-work-to-afford-a-big-mac-2012-5

[Freddie Stubbs]

1. When I worked there in college, they used to give them to me for free during my lunch break

[cbdo2007]

5. Yeah, me too. I gained about 20 pounds that year from all the free food.

[bananas]

2. In India it's made of chicken

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Mac

In India, where the high Hindu population
means that beef is not common, the Big
Mac was renamed the Maharaja Mac and
was originally made with lamb instead of
beef; however, along with the company's
other items it is now made from
chicken. [12][13]

[JHB]

3. And that' folks, is the "trickle down" effect from unions...

Even non-union jobs benefit where unions are (or were) strong.

[marmar]

4. Awesome graphic......

Although I'm sure the WSJ editors' response was: "Why can't we be more like India?"

[KurtNYC]

6. 25 minutes ? Should be 46 minutes.

At minimum wage a worker is making 12 cents per minute so in 25 minutes they have made a pre-tax $3. After taxes the $3 is around $2.40 (varies by state) and then there is tax on the Big Mac so unless the price of a Big Mac is $2.25 or less this graph is wrong.

This handy Big Mac index shows the price of Big Mac around the globe:
http://www.oanda.com/currency/big-mac-index

and it shows the US average to be $4.07 plus tax, so $4.40, therefore a US worker has to work 46 minutes to buy it.

[bullwinkle428]

7. Our overlords are working hard to make sure that bar graph is

equally high across the entire spectrum of nations.