HourBuys Measures Prices in Hours of Work

Field notes

HourBuys applies a single comparison unit—hours of local work—to prices gathered across 77 cities. Its examples include a same-model Nike Pegasus 42, a neighbourhood cappuccino, central one-bedroom rent, a monthly transit pass, and a chain-gym membership. The page also frames the results in eight-hour workdays and ranks cities by measures such as monthly essentials and cappuccino time. It states that figures are sourced and graded by verification, though the extracted page does not show those source links.