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Jan 4, 2019 | 7:15 pm

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Originally Posted by barracuda93

I am lazy to dig the data, but if we calculate hotel nightly price as a percentage of median salary, I am pretty sure Thailand will turn out to be more expensive than US.

Thank you for my smile this morning. Yes, let's talk about average wages in Thailand.

The average monthly wage in Thailand as of September, 2018 was 14,075.55 baht, USD $440.15. My favorite hotel in Bangkok is SGS, at which standard rooms can usually be had in the THB 6,000++ range per night. THB 6,000++ = THB 7,062 = USD $220.74.

So, as a percentage of median (the only data I have is for average salary, which is probably what you meant, anyway) salary, one night at SGS is about 15 days' wages. However, as catocony pointed out upthread, there aren't a lot of average Thais staying at 5* properties here.

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