Is your pay rise beating inflation?

Whether you call it a pay rise or a raise, it only leaves you better off if it beats inflation — and inflation is a different number in every country. This is what it currently takes just to stand still in each of 118 of them, from the hardest to the easiest.

Iran asks the most, at 87.9%; Morocco the least, at -0.3%. Pick a country to put your own salary and the offer on the table into it.

What a rise has to beat, country by country

Each figure is that country's own headline measure over the twelve months to the date beside it. Offices publish on different schedules, so the months differ.