This is a list of orders of magnitude for money. Other lists for time, area, volume, mass and dimensionless numbers are also available, and an overview is at order of magnitude.

The following articles describe things which have the given orders of magnitude of value, as given in U.S. dollars, as of 2003.

  • $0.01 - nearly worthless, used chiefly in making change
  • $0.10 -
  • $1 - hamburger at McDonald's
  • $10 - wristwatch with quartz circuit
  • $100 - TV, VCR, microwave or pair of shoes
    • $490 annual income (GNI) per capita (PPP) for citizens of Sierra Leone, as of 2002
  • $1000 - used car (15 years old, runs)
    • $1000 annual income (GNI) per capita (PPP) for citizens of Chad, as of 2002
  • 104 - new car
    • $35,060 annual income (GNI) per capita (PPP) for citizens of the United States, as of 2002
  • 105 - small house far from cities
  • 106 - big house in suburbs, condo in city
  • 107
  • 108 - large office building in city
  • 109 - billion
  • 1010
    • $40.7bn, fortune as of 2003 of Bill Gates, world's richest man
  • 1011 - budget for reconstruction of Iraq
  • 1012 - trillion
  • 1013
    • $4.3×1013, global 2002 Gross Domestic Product, (PPP 2000 US$, source: World Bank)
  • 1014

See also: orders of magnitude

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