Orders of magnitude (currency)

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This page is a progressive and labeled list of the SI currency orders of magnitude, with certain examples appended to some list objects.

Orders of magnitude
(money expressed in United States dollars)

Factor ($)	Long scale	Short scale	Money	Item
10−3	one mill		$0.001	smallest unit of currency, used in pricing gasoline and computing taxes
10−2	one cent		$0.01	used chiefly for making change
10−1	ten cents		$0.10	highest common price per page for self-service monochrome photocopying
$0.99	cost of a pack of gum
100	one dollar		$1	double cheeseburger at McDonald's
			$4	typical drink of gourmet coffee
$6	value meal at a typical restaurant
101	ten dollars		$10	wristwatch with quartz circuit, 20 lb. sack of rice
102	one hundred dollars		$100	2 video games, a nice digital camera
			$400	approximate annual GDP per capita (PPP) for East Timor (2004, CIA World Factbook)
103	one thousand dollars		$1,000	used car (15 years old, runs)
			$1,000	midrange personal computer
			$1,000	approximate GDP per capita (PPP) for Nigeria (2004)
			$8,800	approximate world GDP per capita (PPP) (2004)
104	ten thousand dollars		$10,000	cheap new car
			$10,000	approximate GDP per capita (PPP) for Russia (2004)
			$20,000	(Israel, Greece)–$40,000 (Jersey, Norway, United States) - approximate GDP per capita (PPP) in most first world nations (2004)
			$26,000	cost of an average new car
			$30,000	cost of an Engineering degree from an average university
			$35,060	annual income (GNI) per capita (PPP) for citizens of the United States, as of 2002
105	one hundred thousand dollars		$100,000 - $999,999	In the United States, a "six figure salary" is sometimes seen as a milestone of significant wealth, and indicator of social class.
			$100,000	small house far from cities
			$100,000	cost of a Law degree from a prestigious university
			$101,000	median value of a home in the U.S. in 1990
			$120,000	median value of a home in the U.S. in 2000
106	one million dollars		$1,000,000	huge house in suburbs, nice condo downtown in large city
107	ten million dollars		$10,000,000	a small hospital
108	one hundred million dollars		$100,000,000	large city office building
			$264,000,000	estimated price of an Airbus A380 airplane
109	one milliard dollars	one billion dollars	$2.5×109	estimated cost of a B-2 Spirit stealth bomber
1010	ten milliard dollars	ten billion dollars	$15.83×109	Gross Domestic Product of Iceland
			$62×109	fortune of Warren Buffett, world's richest man, as of 2008 [1]
1011	one hundred milliard dollars	one hundred billion dollars	$100×109	budget for reconstruction of Iraq
			$236×109	Gross Domestic Product of Greece (CIA World Factbook)
			$920×109	approximate United States budget deficit
1012	one billion dollars	one trillion dollars	$2.5×1012	approximate United States annual federal budget as of 2005[update]
			$9.06×1012	United States national debt as of October 2007[update] [2]
1013	ten billion dollars	ten trillion dollars	$12.39×1012	United States GDP (PPP) as of 2005 [3]
			$55×1012	global GDP (PPP)

[edit] External links

• GNI per capita 2002, Atlas method and PPP