Gyro price, net minimum wage and purchasing power for 1979, with its calculation and sources. Visitor reports are shown separately for comparison.
Index · classic gyros / month
346
Using the model's product rescaling
Wage · monthly equivalent
25.93 €
in 2026 prices: 772.15 €
Gross minimum by month: Jan-Feb €22.01, Mar-Dec €25.31. Year mean €24.76. After contributions, before income tax. Annual income divided by 12, using 14 payments throughout the series. Wage and contributions are twelve-month means. Purchasing power in classic gyros.
The wrap of the period, at the historical series price. The price may be documented or estimated, as explained in the year’s sources.
Range from price bounds: 489–1,037 period gyros/month
How is it calculated?
Base series · period gyros/month · scenario start 1998
25.93 € ÷ 0.039 € ≈ 665 period gyros/month
After contributions, before income tax. Annual income divided by 12, using 14 payments throughout the series. Wage and contributions are twelve-month means. Purchasing power in period gyros.
The quotient is rounded to a whole number.
Only the price varies within its published bounds. Wage and composition stay fixed. This is neither a total uncertainty range nor a statistical confidence interval. Bounds come from the model's selected percentage band.
Geometric interpolation
Interpolation between the inputs for 1978 and 1980, using the CPI path identified by the calculation rule.
The era view applies no meat-weight or composition rescaling to a classic product.
What do the sources support?
D: Interpolated inside the price-control era, or projected outside the documented range
Categories describe how the price enters the model. They do not certify original-source verification, representative sampling or historical product composition.
Rescaled to a common reference product with 88 g of gyro meat and fries. A calculated price, not a second observed shop price.
Range from price bounds: 254–539 classic gyros/month
How is it calculated?
Base series · classic gyros/month · scenario start 1998
25.93 € ÷ 0.075 € ≈ 346 classic gyros/month
After contributions, before income tax. Annual income divided by 12, using 14 payments throughout the series. Wage and contributions are twelve-month means. Purchasing power in classic gyros.
The quotient is rounded to a whole number.
Only the price varies within its published bounds. Wage and composition stay fixed. This is neither a total uncertainty range nor a statistical confidence interval. Bounds come from the model's selected percentage band.
Geometric interpolation
Interpolation between the inputs for 1978 and 1980, using the CPI path identified by the calculation rule.
Historical meat weights and changes in composition are model assumptions, not a series of market measurements. The assumed peak and decline in portion size need verification. The present-day weight defines the reference product. The era price refers to the wrap sold at the time; the classic price and weight-adjusted index depend on these assumptions.
What do the sources support?
D: Interpolated inside the price-control era, or projected outside the documented range
Categories describe how the price enters the model. They do not certify original-source verification, representative sampling or historical product composition.
Both prices are expressed in money of the same year. Classic rescaling adjusts composition, not inflation.
What does the comparison assume?
Historical meat weights and changes in composition are model assumptions, not a series of market measurements. The assumed peak and decline in portion size need verification. The present-day weight defines the reference product. The era price refers to the wrap sold at the time; the classic price and weight-adjusted index depend on these assumptions.
Compare 1979 with another year
Period and classic gyro prices, wage and purchasing power, with downloadable image and CSV.
We combine 2 wage bases, 4 historical-price choices and 7 composition specifications across 50 completed years, 1976–2025.
Counts are not probabilities. Payroll reconstruction remains under review. Portion scenarios are not measurements; geography and sale channel stay fixed.
Period gyros
8 distinct combinations. Portion assumptions do not affect this measure.
1979 rank: 11–11 out of 50 years.
Rank one is the highest purchasing power. Published baseline: rank 11.
Minimum–maximum across cases: ≈665–669 per month.
Extremes of the selected specifications, not an uncertainty interval. Ranks precede rounding of displayed counts.
1979 remains above 1976 in every selected case.
Separate and joint peak tests
Peak years by test family
Vary
Cases
Peak years
Prices only
4
1982, 1984
Wage only
2
1982
Composition only
1
1982
Joint
8
1982, 1984
Separate tests keep other assumptions at the published baseline. Groups overlap and must not be added together.
Rank one is the highest purchasing power. Published baseline: rank 34.
Minimum–maximum across cases: ≈302–593 per month.
Extremes of the selected specifications, not an uncertainty interval. Ranks precede rounding of displayed counts.
1979 remains above 1976 in every selected case.
Separate and joint peak tests
Peak years by test family
Vary
Cases
Peak years
Prices only
4
1985, 1989
Wage only
2
1989
Composition only
7
1982, 1985, 1989
Joint
56
1982, 1984, 1985, 1989
Separate tests keep other assumptions at the published baseline. Groups overlap and must not be added together.
One example combination for each peak year
1982: Published income · Published baseline · Reference meat weight in every year
1984: Published income · Without the 1983 price · Reference meat weight in every year
1985: Published income · Published baseline · Historical meat -20%
1989: Published income · Published baseline · Baseline composition
Specifications and how to verify the result
Wage
Published income
Payroll reconstruction under review
Price
Published baseline
Without the 1983 price
Without the 1984 price
Without either price
Composition
Baseline composition
Historical meat -20%
Historical meat +20%
Reference meat weight in every year
Meat value share 50%
Meat value share 90%
No non-meat composition gap
JSON includes parameters, inputs, public citations and every case by year. CSV contains the same calculations. With Node 24, the standalone program checks the arithmetic without packages, network or private repository access. Arithmetic reproduction does not certify historical sources.
DInterpolated inside the price-control era, or projected outside the documented rangeWage: 12 A / 0 B monthsNo fries insideSkewer (estimate): 0.03 €
Categories describe how the price enters the model. They do not certify original-source verification, representative sampling or historical product composition.
Detailed evidence and calculation
What is supported for this year
We examine price, date, place and product composition separately. Evidence for the price does not establish historical meat weights.
The detailed year review is pending. This does not mean no sources exist.
Price
Sources and the calculation are shown below. A separate review of these dimensions has not yet been completed for this year.
Date
A separate check of publication date and observation date has not yet been completed here.
Geography
A separate review of geographical coverage and adjustments has not yet been completed here.
Composition
Historical meat weights and changes in composition are model assumptions, not a series of market measurements. The assumed peak and decline in portion size need verification. The present-day weight defines the reference product. The era price refers to the wrap sold at the time; the classic price and weight-adjusted index depend on these assumptions.
A source entry is not always the final price. These are the inputs retained by the model, without implying fresh verification of the original.
1. Amount before rescaling
Not separately recorded
The recorded original amount before any rescaling. It may be a regulated ceiling or composite input, not an individual purchase.
2. Model input
No anchor for this year
The price is calculated from other years and series rules. It is not presented as a new observation.
3. Period price in the series
0.039 €
The final price used for period purchasing power. Classic composition rescaling is a separate subsequent step.
In some years an anchor constrains the range rather than replacing the calculated price. Historical amounts use the fixed drachma-to-euro conversion, without inflation adjustment.
The series wage is the 12-month mean of the monthly register, not the amount in the act. The year's act is one of the sources of the register's months.
Evidence and open questions
Menus, reports and regulations document contemporary prices and specifications. Market prices remain distinct from regulated prices. Open questions and hypothetical comparisons do not automatically change the index.
View sources, comparisons and limitations
What the contemporary press reported
Messinia: regulated gyro-pita price from January
Σημαία ·
Issue 20828, p. 1, lower left. Market Order 1/1979, EM 402, articles 1–3.
Effective from:
Gyro or patty with pita and seasoning, regulated price
11 GRD
Gyro or patty with bread, regulated price
10 GRD
Cooked-gyro specification, not an actual weighing
37–40 g
The issue prints the order itself, signed by the prefect, with explicit commencement on 29 January. Gyro meat weight is specified cooked, while the fat limit applies to raw meat. Prices concern standing customers in Messinia. Neither transactions nor the days before commencement are established.
Preceding Order 9/1978 and intermediate Order 10/1979 were verified. Continuity is presented as a separate reconstruction with an explicit no-other-amendments assumption.
Supporting evidence. Not used directly as an annual price.
Messinia: the intermediate order retains the pita price
Σημαία ·
Issue 20930, pp. 1 and 4. Market Order 10, 1 June 1979, protocol 2265. Page 4: article 1, souvlaki section, and articles 4–6.
Effective from:
Gyro or patty with pita and seasoning, regulated price
11 GRD
Gyro or patty with bread, regulated price
10 GRD
Cooked-gyro specification, not a serving measurement
37–40 g
The order explicitly repeals Order 1/1979 and retains its gyro-pita and bread prices. Commencement the day after publication gives 6 June. Souvlaki is explicitly excluded from the geographic reduction of other regulated prices and has the same schedule throughout the prefecture. The optional seated-service surcharge is a separate rule, not a new selling-price observation.
The next captured amendment is Order 15/1979. Actual shop prices and a completeness review of the legal sequence are needed.
Supporting evidence. Not used directly as an annual price.
Messinia: revised gyro-pita price and a minimum pita weight
Θάρρος ·
Issue 24372, p. 1, lower centre. Market Order 15, 2 July 1979, EM 2921, articles 1–3.
Effective from:
Gyro or patty with pita and seasoning, regulated price
13 GRD
Gyro or patty with bread, regulated price
11 GRD
Pork skewer with pita, regulated price
12 GRD
Cooked-gyro specification
37–40 g
Minimum pita-bread weight, not the whole wrap
65 g
The order amends Order 10 of 1 June 1979 and takes effect the day after publication, giving 4 July from this dated issue. Gyro and pork skewers are priced separately. Gyro weight is cooked; skewer pork is raw. These are regulatory requirements, not measurements of actual servings.
Further research: other intermediate amendments and full national orders for geographic comparison. The current annual reconstruction explicitly assumes continuity.
Evidence for the regional calendar feeding the 1980 anchor. National representativeness remains an assumption.
Printed page 12, souvlaki-more-expensive-from-tomorrow subsection, across two columns. Viewer image four is printed page 12.
Reported commencement:
Doner with pita and seasoning, before
11 GRD
Doner with pita and seasoning, after
13 GRD
Doner with bread, before
10 GRD
Doner with bread, after
11 GRD
Reports a price-control order commencing the following day, without an explicit prefecture. The later Messinia order confirms a within-year change on its own date. An unchanged price in a May order does not establish a full-year 1979 freeze. That interpolation override is removed; the interpolated annual price is not relabelled as a national observation.
Neither a ceiling nor a newspaper report establishes a national mean transaction price.
Supporting evidence. Not used directly as an annual price.