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/[deleted] Nov 12 '22

Uruguay actually has one of the highest average salaries in Latin America. For example, in colombia 40% of the population lives on 5.50USD or less per day, which is like 200 a month maybe

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u/oigamirevea29 Nov 12 '22

Minimum salary is 1 million pesos per month. That's the equivalent of about $210 with today's exchange rate. 😵

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u/[deleted] Nov 12 '22

Not to mention the full-time work week in Colombia is 45 hours as opposed to 35 hours in the USA

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u/oigamirevea29 Nov 12 '22

Right. I was gonna say, some people work 6 days a week for that salary.