The ratio of wages and living expenses in Moscow
High salaries of Muscovites do not cause enthusiasm among the inhabitants of the regions. However, we must understand that these high salaries are accompanied by an appropriate level of prices in the capital.
Salaries and expenses
Official data argue that the averageThe salary in the capital is a little over forty thousand rubles, the minimum - about ten. Of course, forty thousand - not the smallest money, on the periphery you can live on them for more than a month, especially if you have your own farm. However, even if you do not take into account the option of renting a housing that is worthless in the capital, the cost of living in Moscow is also quite high. An undemanding resident of Moscow, without dependence on cigarettes or alcohol, can eat for twelve thousand rubles a month. At the same time, the basis of his diet will not be red caviar and other delicacies. The diet of an undemanding Muscovite will include a chicken (about 90 rubles per kilogram), vegetables fresh and frozen (the last will cost 80 rubles per kilogram, fresh more expensive, but this depends on the season), a variety of dairy products (about 40 rubles per liter of kefir or milk) , eggs (50 rubles per ten), bread (20 rubles per loaf), fruit (the cheapest option is apples - about 50 rubles per kilogram), cereals, flour, sugar (from 30 rubles per kilogram) and other basic products that allow it's delicious, but it's pretty simple to eat. To these expenses it is necessary to add an economic part. A month on washing powders, toilet paper, shampoo, soap and other small items, on average, takes about one and a half thousand rubles. A working person usually eats something at lunchtime. In a month it takes from two to four thousand rubles. Of course, you can bring food from home, especially if there is a microwave in the office, but this is not always convenient.Mandatory Costs
Transportation costs are a serious blow to the budget. Travel to all types of transport cost Muscovites about three thousand rubles. Owners of the apartment have to pay a rent, this is about four thousand rubles, and utility services, it's still about a thousand and a half (depends on the ability to economically spend water and electricity), that is, even living in his own apartment will cost five thousand a month. If there is a need to rent an apartment or even a room, this amount can be increased at times. One-bedroom apartment on the outskirts of the capital will cost about twenty thousand (plus utility bills) per month. After all the calculations, it can be said that a Muscovite needs to spend about twenty thousand rubles a month to maintain "basic" needs, if not to rent an apartment. But this amount does not include entertainment, buying clothes, traveling outside the capital and much more. So even in this case, the official "average wage" does not seem so big anymore, and if you deduct money from it to rent an apartment, nothing remains of it. And after all, interviews with the capital's population showed that the official average salary badly correlates with reality . Of the three thousand respondents, more than half a month earn up to eighteen thousand rubles, and only twelve percent earn more than thirty-five thousand. So the myths about fattened Muscovites remain myths.
