Minimum Wage has risen
By Absinto
@Absinto (2385)
Portugal
February 3, 2017 4:42am CST
Here in the Azores they have been rising minimum wage for 3 years already, trying to get everyone on track with their lives. Last year it was around 557 euros.
Last January then rose it up to 584 euros and are planning to keep getting it up to 600 euros.
This is good for us because here you cant live alone on minimum wage. Just a rent is at least 350 euros not incuding house expenses. So them rising this gives people a bigger opportunity to get theirselves on track.
I for once live with my parents and get minimum wage. But i am paying a car that is 150 euros a month. Even if i wanted too, i couldnt leave the house to be on my own because i wouldnt have the money for rent, expenses, car food and gas.
It would be too much.
How is minimum wage vs lifestyle were you live?
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@Shellyann36 (11385)
• United States
3 Feb 17
Minimum wage is too low at the moment. If it does get raised then the fallback will be that businesses cut the hours worked by employees.
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@Shellyann36 (11385)
• United States
4 Feb 17
@Absinto It often leads to higher prices for goods and fewer hours for employees. 
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@Absinto (2385)
• Portugal
5 Feb 17
@Shellyann36 Over here it doesnt. It helps us alot and it also helps the government.
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@MALUSE (69409)
• Germany
3 Feb 17
I don't know how much minimum wage is in Germany. But it's certainly higher because Germany is a more expensive country than Portugal. The 350 € for rent you've mentioned here don't tell me much if you don't mention the number of rooms a flat/apartment has. T
he other day a young woman told me that she paid 350€ for one room in a flat where two other students live. They share the bathroom.
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@Absinto (2385)
• Portugal
3 Feb 17
350€ will get you a T0 or T1, a really small house and away from the city center. The closer you get to the city center the more expensive it gets.
It also depends on the tentent also. And this is without a receipt, if not they will raise the rent to get the money they want.
@Absinto (2385)
• Portugal
3 Feb 17
@MALUSE T0 is a flat that has one room but it opened up. Which means the bedroom, kitchen and living room would be all together and just the bathroom is separate.
A T1 is a one bedroom flat. and the receipt is what you use to declare to the finances that you are paying for rent and taxes on that flat/house.
