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Dublin, Ireland. Rent - €300 p/m (room/studio in a shared house). This is about as cheap as you can get. A room in the city centre would be more like €700-900
by randomtask 16y ago
Dublin, Ireland.
Rent - €300 p/m (room/studio in a shared house). This is about as cheap as you can get. A room in the city centre would be more like €700-900 p/m.
Food - €30-40 per week assuming you bring a packed lunch and cook at home.
Bills - around €50 p/m. Includes electricity and TV.
Internet - if you're a student you can get a 3G USB dongle for €20 with a monthly cost of €13 from O2. That comes with a 5 gig cap. Vodafone allow you to roam on any of their networks in Europe if you subscribe to their service. If you're lucky enough to live in the right area you can get Fibre to the home for €50 p/m. DSL is around the same price.
Mobile phone - choose the pay as you go option (prepay) and you can send up to 250 text messages per month for free online. plans start from €15 with 50 minutes/texts. mobile calls about 12-13c per minute. i think some of the networks do free texts to people on the same network now.
Minimum wage - €8.65 per hour
Programmer salaries - typically about €30k starting off with senior (> 5 year's experience and typically more) able to charge up to 70-80k. someone in the bottom of that range (30k) will take home 80% of that after tax. middle of that range (55k) will typically take home 70% of their salary after tax, and someone on 80k will take home just over 60%. We have a fairly harsh budget in the works so that will probably change slightly. Tax calculator - http://www.hookhead.ie/Tools/tax2010.jsp http://www.hookhead.ie/Tools/tax2010.jsp
Health insurance - companies will often provide this but if they don't then a decent plan will cost €800-900 and the comprehensive plan will cost €2000. under the drugs payment scheme (available to all residents) you will pay a maximum of €120 per month for prescribed medicine.
Transport - typically about €60-70. cycling is definitely an option though as the city is small.
As a student I have been living on €1000 per month for over a year now. This is while trying to be fairly frugal most of the time. By cutting down on the time/money I spend on socialising I could reduce these expenses significantly, but that is important to me so I don't.