Prices in United States 🇺🇸

In United States, gasoline costs $1.01, milk costs $1.06 and diesel costs $1.44. That is 13 of the 16 everyday items in the game, priced in US dollars, in USD, and as roughly how long someone on the average local wage works to buy one.

The United States is the reference point for the Big Mac Index, so its burger price is the baseline every other country is measured against. American fuel is cheap by rich-country standards, since federal and state fuel taxes are a fraction of European levels, while its food prices sit mid-range. It is also the only country here with no VAT at all: sales tax is set by states and municipalities, most states exempt groceries entirely, and the rate genuinely differs between two towns an hour apart. Every other column in this table has a national tax rate that can be quoted; the American one does not, and the figure here is a national average papering over real internal variation.