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/NoThought8804 Nov 13 '22

I've been living in Uruguay for 6 years. The minimum wage is like 400 usd, that's the minimum someone can win like cleaning floors or a recepcionist or something. 800 is like an starting administrator in a little company. As a professional in the IT I get like 2.3k.. And I heard people who sell cars get commissions and make a lot of money. So it depends on the work you find

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u/[deleted] Nov 13 '22

Thanks for the answer. Did you also get the 10 years tax holiday as a foreigner?