Working exhibit · public data, OECD
Priced out: rent vs pay.
Since 2015, rents climbed. Pay mostly didn't keep up. Across 40 economies, rents outran real wages in almost all of them, the gap between what you earn and what a home costs, opening year by year. Pick a country and this whole story rewrites itself.
Country
Region
, rent, since 2015
, real pay, since 2015
, the squeeze (gap)
The analyst’s note, written from the data
The squeeze, ranked
Rent growth minus real-wage growth since 2015. Bars to the right mean rents pulled ahead of pay; to the left, pay won. Click any bar to make it the story.
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Where this country sits
Every economy plotted: real annual pay across the bottom, how much rents rose up the side. Your pick is highlighted.