Living cost Barcelona?

[SweRob]

Hey all.

I have applied for a job in Barcelona, its within IT-Support and it pays 1500 Eur a month (14 salaries a year). So that should be 21000 Eur/Year.

Is this enough to make it in Barcelona? i intend to live a quiet life, maybe hit the bars once a week at most. I do like to eat out tough.

From my research i have found that a room costs around 250 - 350 Eur/Month, and if i want a small one bedroom apartment i can expect to pay around 600 - 650 Eur/Month.

But i do realize that this salary aint enough for renting my own apartment, so i guess my only option is to rent a room in the 250 - 350 Eur/Month range.

Other costs/service that i absolutly need is :

Gym card
Metro card
Broadband internet

What is your take on all this? will i survive? barely?

Any feedback would be apriciated, good or bad.

Regards

Robert

P.S What is the income tax? What will i have left of my 1500 Eur/Month salary after tax?

[SweRob]

I started to play around with some numbers on my own.

So lets say i earn 1500 Eur/Month, with an income tax of 25% that leaves me with 1125 a month to utilize.

350 - Rent (Renting a room, Electric, Water and Internet included)
620 - Food (I calculated 20 Eur a day x 31 days)
50 - Gym Card
50 - Shampoo, Soap, Razorblades etc
50 - Metro card

1120 - Total

The kicker is that i then have the two months extra salaries each year wich sums up to 2250. I dont know how to relate to this money since in my home country we only have 12 salaries a year.

But lets say i divide the 2250 by 12 months and that should give me 187 Eur extra each month. And i guess that would go to pay for my Beer bills out on town. But in reality i guess it wont work that way since i have to wait untill christmas and the summer vacation to get the money.

But in Theory i should have 187 Eur on top of the expendure list up above.

Anyone have any comments about this? any feedback would be greatly apriciated.

[jojo]

I'm not sure you'll get rent AND utilities for as little as 350€ a month - in fact I think it would be difficult to find somewhere for that ammount???? Barcelona is expensive

Jo xxx

[SweRob]

Originally Posted by jojo

I'm not sure you'll get rent AND utilities for as little as 350€ a month - in fact I think it would be difficult to find somewhere for that ammount???? Barcelona is expensive

Jo xxx

There are single rooms available for that price tough, with utilities, im not 100% certain about the location of them tough.

I cannot post an link to the site im looking at rooms at, have to make 4 more posts before i can add links

[brocher]

I'm sure some families are living on less, but you still need to make sure it is worthwhile taking the job rather than staying where you are.

Does a National Insurance/ Social Security type payment not have to be deducted from your pay?

Don't forget other costs that are harder to define - flights home, travel that isn't covered by your metro card - to explore your new home, an allowance for "bits and bobs" for your new home, clothes, collection for colleagues birthday, etc.

[jojo]

Originally Posted by SweRob

There are single rooms available for that price tough, with utilities, im not 100% certain about the location of them tough.

I cannot post an link to the site im looking at rooms at, have to make 4 more posts before i can add links

Maybe check these rooms first. Are they house/apartment shares???? They seem very cheap for Barca!!???


Jo xxx

[Pesky Wesky]

Originally Posted by SweRob

There are single rooms available for that price tough, with utilities, im not 100% certain about the location of them tough.

I cannot post an link to the site im looking at rooms at, have to make 4 more posts before i can add links

It's always useful to know more about where the jobs are in these times of crisis, so if you could make another post telling us where the job was advertised, what kind of job it is, what the selection process is etc it would be very much appreciated.

[SweRob]

Originally Posted by Pesky Wesky

It's always useful to know more about where the jobs are in these times of crisis, so if you could make another post telling us where the job was advertised, what kind of job it is, what the selection process is etc it would be very much appreciated.

You must be able to speak fluent Swedish for this job, so i dont think its of interest for you, its a outsourced IT-Support department wich Supports the Swedish market.

[xabiachica]

Originally Posted by SweRob

You must be able to speak fluent Swedish for this job, so i dont think its of interest for you, its a outsourced IT-Support department wich Supports the Swedish market.

probably not to Pesky personally, you're right

what she meant (and in fact said) was that it's usful to other posters/readers of the forum to find out how & where people who ARE securing jobs here in Spain are finding out about them

you're probably not the only Swedish person here

[SweRob]

Originally Posted by xabiachica

probably not to Pesky personally, you're right

what she meant (and in fact said) was that it's usful to other posters/readers of the forum to find out how & where people who ARE securing jobs here in Spain are finding out about them

you're probably not the only Swedish person here

Yeah, if i pass the selection process ill let you all know.