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The pita gyro in 2002

Gyro price, net minimum wage and purchasing power for 2002, with its calculation and sources. Visitor reports are shown separately for comparison.

Index · classic gyros / month

394

Using the model's product rescaling

Wage · monthly equivalent

485.19 €

in 2026 prices: 783.61 €

Gross minimum by month: Jan-Jun €490, Jul-Dec €499. Year mean €494.5. 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.

Minimum Wage: payments, contributions and the reconstruction comparison

The same wage, two comparisons

Period gyros

Price per gyro
1.24 €
With the net minimum wage / month
391

Series range: 1.17 € – 1.50 €

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: 323–415 period gyros/month

How is it calculated?

Base series · period gyros/month · scenario start 1998

485.19 € ÷ 1.24 € ≈ 391 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 anchor's configured range.

Estimate with range

Selected estimate with a modelling range, without a directly documented price.

Estimate EUR 1.24, range 1.17-1.50. Lower bound: the campaign's EUR 1.17 (399 GRD), that is no change across the changeover. Upper bound: the largest increase recorded by the Rizospastis survey of January 2002 (“up to 46%, from 350 drachmas to 1.5 euro”). The central value is 2001 carried forward with the official 2002 catering CPI (6.3%).

Anchors used by the calculation: 2002

The era view applies no meat-weight or composition rescaling to a classic product.

What do the sources support?

B: Regulated, single-source or an estimate with a range

Categories describe how the price enters the model. They do not certify original-source verification, representative sampling or historical product composition.

Price, date, place, compositionOriginal sources for the yearFrom source to price
Selected-series data · 2026.10.10-monthly-bulletin

Classic gyros

Price per gyro
1.230 €
With the net minimum wage / month
394

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: 326–418 classic gyros/month

How is it calculated?

Base series · classic gyros/month · scenario start 1998

485.19 € ÷ 1.230 € ≈ 394 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 anchor's configured range.

Estimate with range

Selected estimate with a modelling range, without a directly documented price.

Estimate EUR 1.24, range 1.17-1.50. Lower bound: the campaign's EUR 1.17 (399 GRD), that is no change across the changeover. Upper bound: the largest increase recorded by the Rizospastis survey of January 2002 (“up to 46%, from 350 drachmas to 1.5 euro”). The central value is 2001 carried forward with the official 2002 catering CPI (6.3%).

Anchors used by the calculation: 2002

Product rescaling

1.24 € × 0.992 ≈ 1.230 €

Model / reference grams:
89 / 88
Meat-component weight:
70%
Fries input in the composition component:
100%
Non-meat base / meat-component cap:
0.65 / 1.35

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?

B: Regulated, single-source or an estimate with a range

Categories describe how the price enters the model. They do not certify original-source verification, representative sampling or historical product composition.

Price, date, place, compositionOriginal sources for the yearFrom source to price
Selected-series data · 2026.10.10-monthly-bulletin

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 2002 with another year

Period and classic gyro prices, wage and purchasing power, with downloadable image and CSV.

Compare: 2002 → 2026

Which findings hold up?

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.

2002 rank: 31–31 out of 50 years.

Rank one is the highest purchasing power. Published baseline: rank 31.

Minimum–maximum across cases: ≈391–393 per month.

Extremes of the selected specifications, not an uncertainty interval. Ranks precede rounding of displayed counts.

2002 remains below 1976 in every selected case.

Separate and joint peak tests
Peak years by test family
VaryCasesPeak years
Prices only41982, 1984
Wage only21982
Composition only11982
Joint81982, 1984

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
  • 1984: Published income · Without the 1983 price

Classic equivalents

56 distinct combinations.

2002 rank: 28–33 out of 50 years.

Rank one is the highest purchasing power. Published baseline: rank 29.

Minimum–maximum across cases: ≈339–452 per month.

Extremes of the selected specifications, not an uncertainty interval. Ranks precede rounding of displayed counts.

The 1976–2002 comparison depends on the assumptions.

Separate and joint peak tests
Peak years by test family
VaryCasesPeak years
Prices only41985, 1989
Wage only21989
Composition only71982, 1985, 1989
Joint561982, 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.

node reproduce-joint-v1.mjs joint-robustness-2026-09-14.json
JSONCSVReproduction program

joint-robustness-v1 · 2026.09.26-mean-wage-source

Source and product testsWage-basis evidence

Where this figure comes from

Estimate with range. Selected estimate with a modelling range, without a directly documented price.

The era price is an input or calculation in the series. Comparison in classic gyros adds assumptions about weight and composition.

What the sources supportFollow the price calculation
BRegulated, single-source or an estimate with a rangeFries includedSkewer (estimate): 0.73 €

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.

Reviewed with outstanding questions · 8 Sept 2026

Price
The central price is derived from the previous year's anchor and catering CPI. The reported upper bound is not a market median.
Date
The calculation depends on the euro campaign's date. A change requires reviewing the related years together.
Geography
The available reports do not establish the central price as a measured national median.
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.
See sources for this year

From source to series price

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. 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. 2. Model input

    1.24 €

    Estimate EUR 1.24, range 1.17-1.50. Lower bound: the campaign's EUR 1.17 (399 GRD), that is no change across the changeover. Upper bound: the largest increase recorded by the Rizospastis survey of January 2002 (“up to 46%, from 350 drachmas to 1.5 euro”). The central value is 2001 carried forward with the official 2002 catering CPI (6.3%).

  3. 3. Period price in the series

    1.24 €

    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.

Sources and limitations for this year

How the number is produced

Every figure with the formula that produces it and its source. Nothing is written by hand.

The wage

Gross, per payment
494.50 €
Employee contributions
15.90%
Net, per payment
netPerPayment = gross × (1 − contributionRate)415.87 €
Payments per year
14
Net, on a 12-month basis
netEur = netPerPayment × payments ÷ 12485.19 €

WSI Minimum Wage Database - Greece (Hans-Böckler-Stiftung)

The price

Price(model estimate)
1.24 €
Uncertainty range(−5.65% / +20.97%)
1.170 € - 1.500 €
Method
estimate-with-range (not documented)

Rizospastis, 8 Jan 2002 - “Introduction of the euro: explosive profiteering in the market”

The index

Index
index = round(netSalary / pitaPrice)391
Change vs previous year
-3
In the hypothetical scenario(general)
522
Wage in today's prices
real = net × (CPI_2026 / CPI_year)783.61 €

How to cite it

Estimate EUR 1.24, range 1.17-1.50. Lower bound: the campaign's EUR 1.17 (399 GRD), that is no change across the changeover. Upper bound: the largest increase recorded by the Rizospastis survey of January 2002 (“up to 46%, from 350 drachmas to 1.5 euro”). The central value is 2001 carried forward with the official 2002 catering CPI (6.3%).

Rescaling scenario: Base series (anchors, estimates and derived prices)

Sources for this year

Citations

Reproduce this calculationWrapped pita gyro

Estimate EUR 1.24, range 1.17-1.50. Lower bound: the campaign's EUR 1.17 (399 GRD), that is no change across the changeover. Upper bound: the largest increase recorded by the Rizospastis survey of January 2002 (“up to 46%, from 350 drachmas to 1.5 euro”). The central value is 2001 carried forward with the official 2002 catering CPI (6.3%).

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 model already uses

Estimate EUR 1.24, range 1.17-1.50. Lower bound: the campaign's EUR 1.17 (399 GRD), that is no change across the changeover. Upper bound: the largest increase recorded by the Rizospastis survey of January 2002 (“up to 46%, from 350 drachmas to 1.5 euro”). The central value is 2001 carried forward with the official 2002 catering CPI (6.3%).

See the evidence for the starting point: 2001
Download evidence and limitations (JSON)

What if the portion were different?

Only the assumed meat weight changes. The period price, wage and all other assumptions stay fixed.

−20% meat

1.43 €

per classic gyro

339 classic gyros / month

Baseline model

1.23 €

per classic gyro

394 classic gyros / month

+20% meat

1.08 €

per classic gyro

450 classic gyros / month

Period purchasing power stays at 391 gyros per month in every scenario. The classic comparison changes because it depends on composition.

Selected stress tests for 1990–2010, not new measurements or a statistical confidence interval. They do not jointly test price, date and geographic uncertainty.

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