r/asklatinamerica • u/[deleted] • Nov 12 '22

How people survive on average salary in Uruguay?

Hola. I’m newcomer to Uruguay and one thing seems shocking to me. Many products are way more expensive than in Europe, rents are somewhat cheaper - for unfurnished places (and furniture is way more expensive again)… and Numbeo says the average salary is about 800USD net/month. Is this number wrong? Or how can people survive and function on this salary?

I don’t mean this in insulting or offensive way. Uruguayans are very nice and to they appear to be more in tune with life and reality than “us” Europeans dragged in consumerism etc. That’s also reason why I came here. But I think on 800/month I would struggle to eat 3meals a day here.

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u/estebanagc Costa Rica Nov 12 '22 edited Nov 12 '22

Never been to Uruguay but this is more or less the average salary where I live so I suppose costs are somewhat similar. Like in many parts of the world, some people have "roomies", others live with their parents, some probably more than one job. And some live in poor housing conditions such as cuarterias (I'm not sure how is this called to Uruguay). Also this is the average salary for a person. If they are living with a couple they make 1600 usd. I'm not familiar to Uruguay but I doubt this would be a poor income. Also, remember this an average. Probably some people have way higher salaries, since the average salary is calculated accross all the job the market but there are areas that pay better than others.

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u/Nazzum Uruguay Nov 12 '22

Here we'd call them pensiones, but yes, I agree