increase 154%
since 1997 (₱39.00)
General inflation since 1997: 205%
Chickenjoy has risen 0.7x as fast as general inflation.
What does joy cost today?
₱99.00
1-pc + rice + drink
Philippines · 2026
Historical snapshots use different meal configurations. Compare the recorded points, not an identical meal.
- Recorded menu price
- ₱99.00
- 1-pc + rice + drink
- Verified
- Official daily minimum wage
- ₱695.00
- Minutes at the official minimum wage
- 68.4 minutes
- ₱100 buys
- 1.01 meals
- 2026 historical evidence
- Since 1992, the meal takes less minimum-wage work to earn.
The Chickenjoy Time Machine
Drag or click a year to explore.
2026
- Price (nominal)
- ₱99.00
- Price in today's money
- ₱99.00
- Minutes of work needed
- 68 minutes
1-pc + rice + drink
How expensive is it, really?
Three ways to look at the same Chickenjoy.
Selected year: 2026
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₱99.0019922000201020202026
- Verified
- Estimated
Each point is the recorded menu price of the configuration listed for that year.
CJI 101
Did the meal get more expensive, or did money buy less?
A higher price does not always mean less affordable. Affordability worsens when the meal's price rises faster than wages.
What this meansWhy this mattersHow it was calculatedWhat this does not prove
Compare two years
- Menu price
- ₱32.00
- Price in today's money
- Not available
- Minutes of work needed
- 130 minutes
- Daily wage
- ₱118.00
- ₱100 buys
- 3.13 meals per ₱100
2-pc + rice
ReportedJoy became easier to earn.
- Menu price change
- increase 209%
- Price in today's money change
- Not available
- Work time change
- decrease 47%
- Daily wage change
- increase 489%
- ₱100 buying power
- decrease 68%
- Menu price
- ₱99.00
- Price in today's money
- ₱99.00
- Minutes of work needed
- 68 minutes
- Daily wage
- ₱695.00
- ₱100 buys
- 1.01 meals per ₱100
1-pc + rice + drink
PromoWhat ₱100 could buy
₱100 bought 3.13 Chickenjoy meals in 1992. Today it buys 1.01.
1 complete meal
0.01 of another meal
1-pc + rice + drink
Joy has depreciated
- Exact buying power
- 1.01
- Price tag
- Promo
Known Chickenjoy price snapshots
1992 compared with 2026
1992 ₱32.00, 2-pc + rice
2026 ₱99.00, 1-pc + rice + drink
₱32.00 to ₱99.00 (+209.4%)
1992: Reported, Receipt. 2026: Promo, Campaign.
Dataset 2.1.0