pjj

hi there gang i was just wondering what the average yearly salary is for some one working in spain ? i know its no where near yearly salaries in the UK !

Mitzyboy

I was lead to believe it was 13000 euros

MnM

This link may be of some help

http://www.justlanded.com/english/sp...e/jobs/working

leighbloke

In 2004 it was around 20,000 euro, so if you work on around 21k - 22k that won't be far off the mark, typically for a 38.5 hour week.
Though in the tourist areas such as the Costa del Sol the average comes down to around 13 - 14K - probably due to the bulk of jobs being relatively unskilled.
Typically in real (relative) terms if you live and work in Spain you will feel around 10% worse off than if you lived and worked in the UK in the same occupation.

Mitzyboy

Well thats three different answers in three posts ..... maybe we should take an average

leighbloke

Sort of an average average?

Though from MnMs link, I struggle to see how an average can range by 50%, that would mean the lower average could be only 60% of the "average" - conversely the upper average is a whopping 150% of the "average"

Statistics!!!!!!!

Mitzyboy

Fred James told me it was abt 13k and I always believe Fred

leighbloke

13K euro seems VERY low? about half the UK average? (Just Beckhams salary divided by the population would give an average of 50 cents!!!!)

It was the EU database that said £20K, but maybe if I knew Fred, I'd believe him too??

MnM

With a name like Fred, he must be trustworthy

vox populia

The average salary is stated on the forum is around 1200 Euros I am informed!

Mitzyboy

Fred James .... Fred thats posting on here all the time about pensions and tax

vox populia

Talking rubbish I have worked in spain and do not know anyone earning above 20000 E as a semi pro worker?

Mr Impish

I know wages are low but 1200 Euros?

I'd say 12,000 to 13,000 Euros would be a fair estimate. Obviously higher in Madrid and the like.

big wheels

Around here skilled tradesmen. Plumbers, plasterers, sparkies etc are paid about €7 /hr.
Unskilled workers, labourers, olive workers etc get around €5-€5.50/hr.
There are also Plenty of other workers in Spain on the minimum monthly wage, which I believe increased last month to €570.00 gross for full-time adult employees, aged 23+

ps
The minimum wage in the UK works out at €1,380.54/ month (figures based on a 40hr working week)

leighbloke

I maybe talking rubbish in your opinion, but I was only passing on information I'd come across elsewhere, and though you may know nobody on over 20K I seriously doubt you know enough people in enough varied occupations in a sufficiently wide geographical range to proffer this info as fact - I, for instance, have never met, or heard of anyone meeting, anybody with 1.8 children, yet this is the average number of children in a married household in the UK.

according to this :-

http://www.kayttotieto.fi/pdf/wages.pdf

Salary ranges (In Euros) for differing occupations seem to be from around 18k to 30k, nurses, who generally earn around the average in the UK, earn about 20k in Spain.

From my albeit limited, experience of Spain, I would find it incredible if the average was much less than around the 20k mark, there doesn't appear to be such a significant difference in the cost of living, and the taxation levels seem to be around the same, maybe a little higher with the provincial tax? so how would (do) people survive?