Latest median data is 1792 EUR per month gross, mean is a bit over 2000.
Life’s gotten more expensive over the last few years, but you can still easily live off 1700 EUR a month alone if you’re sensible with your spending, especially since the tax burden on people earning more than 1200 EUR was reduced a little bit. This would net you a bit over 1400. Decent apartments for a single person that are neither huge nor tiny, start at 400-500 a month in the bigger cities, 200 in small towns. Honestly, it’s the groceries that get you if you cook every day. Meal prepping or having multiple people eating brings the price per meal per person down.
Not having had to live under soviet rule helped at least the western half be pretty prosperous so that makes sense. 30 years ago here, median salary was about the equivalent of 100 euros or so.
Twice the median where? Im from Ireland and here the median income is around ~€50k and people still can only barely afford somewhere to live.
Latest median data is 1792 EUR per month gross, mean is a bit over 2000.
Life’s gotten more expensive over the last few years, but you can still easily live off 1700 EUR a month alone if you’re sensible with your spending, especially since the tax burden on people earning more than 1200 EUR was reduced a little bit. This would net you a bit over 1400. Decent apartments for a single person that are neither huge nor tiny, start at 400-500 a month in the bigger cities, 200 in small towns. Honestly, it’s the groceries that get you if you cook every day. Meal prepping or having multiple people eating brings the price per meal per person down.
Edit: forgot to clarify, Estonia is the location
None of that applies in Ireland where average monthly rent can be €2000+ in cities.
€500 a month will get you a bed in a shared room (thats right, a shared room not a shared apartment) with about 4-6 other people in Dublin.
Rents were higher than that in Germany when Iived there 30 years ago.
Not having had to live under soviet rule helped at least the western half be pretty prosperous so that makes sense. 30 years ago here, median salary was about the equivalent of 100 euros or so.