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How many hours of work is that thing?

The same price, measured in the time it takes to earn rather than in rupees.

Hours of work

52.8hours
That is 5.9 working days, or 27% of a month, for one ₹8,000 thing.
An hour pays
₹152
  • Price ₹8,000
  • Take-home ₹30,000
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Your numbers, your assumptions. Not advice. We can't see the rest of your life. What that means.

The thing you're thinking about

Take-home, not the number on an offer letter. Those are not the same and the gap is large.

What this assumes

All editable. Change one and the answer changes with it.

A working month here is nine hours a day, twenty-two days, so 198 hours. Change nothing and the arithmetic still holds for you if your month looks like that.

Overtime, a commute and the hours you spend recovering from work are all real and none of them are counted here. The figure below is the optimistic version.

How this works, and where the numbers come from

Rupees are abstract. Hours are not.

₹8,000 means very little before you have earned any. Fifty-three hours means something immediately, because you already know what a week feels like. That translation is the whole tool, and it is the one thing about money that makes sense before you have any.

Use take-home, not the offer

An offer letter says one number and your account receives a smaller one. Pricing things against the larger figure makes everything look cheaper than it is by exactly the gap. If you want to see how big that gap gets, the salary tool takes it apart.

This is the optimistic version

A nine-hour day does not count the commute, the overtime or the evening you spend recovering from it. Those hours are real and they are not in the figure below, which means the true answer is always somewhat worse.

Educational, not advice. Your numbers under assumptions you set.

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