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 |
| 100 |
one dollar |
$1 |
double cheeseburger at McDonald's |
| $4 |
typical drink of gourmet coffee |
| 101 |
ten dollars |
$10 |
wristwatch with quartz circuit, 20 lb. sack of rice |
| 102 |
one hundred dollars |
$100 |
VCR, microwave, or pair of shoes |
| $300 |
amount University School of Milwaukee donated to save the rain forest. |
$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) |
| $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 |
| $48,000 |
annual salary British firefighters asked for in the UK Firefighter dispute 2002/2003 |
| 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 |
| $120,000 |
reward offered for capture of Ukrainian killer Nikolai Soltys |
| $200,000 |
amount donated by Australia to Ethiopia towards drought relief in 2003 |
| $750,000 |
amount of money found on Saddam Hussein when captured |
| 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) |
| $276×109 |
F-35 Joint Strike Fighter programme, USA and others |
| $420×109 |
approximate United States budget deficit |
| 1012 |
one billion dollars |
one trillion dollars |
$2.5×1012 |
approximate United States annual federal budget as of 2005 |
| $9.06×1012 |
United States national debt as of October 2007 [2] |
| 1013 |
ten billion dollars |
ten trillion dollars |
$12.39×1012 |
United States GDP (PPP) as of 2005 [3] |
| $55×1012 |
global GDP (PPP) |
