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volcane wrote:

My water/elec can be 250/month, and we're 3 people.  It's not a question that really can be answered, every situation is different.

Ours is half that every two months for two of us and we have air con, gas bottle for hob cooking lasts nearly a year and we do a lot of cooking.

chrimic5 wrote:

So I started questioning myself, how are people actually surviving in Malta?

Surviving is one thing, living is another. I cannot imagine, how people can live a happy life in Malta with a salary of 1000 Euro - but that's more or less an average income here. It's not even enough for a single person. Anyway, it depends on your personal lifestyle and your idea of a good living and as I've learned, there are lots of people who are pretty fine with this. 

Rent: 3 bedroom flat (average price)    900
Internet and phone:                                   40
Car insurance + road tax + petrol            60
Electricity and water bill                          120
Food + household goods                         900
Kids' school + extra curricular                200
Medical and other expenses                  200

Total                                          Roughly   2400  (this excludes holidays and other leisure activities)

Seems quite ok to me. Plus/minus of course depending on location and consumption, but with 2400 per month you should be quite close.
But - as you mentioned - this only covers "basic needs". There are no things included, which make life fun and with 2 incomes of 1100 or 1200 Euro each, there's also no potential for any savings 

SimonSays1 wrote:

900 for food 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

I thought the same how can anyone spend that much?

chrimic5 wrote:

Please correct me if I got something wrong.  When counting the basic needs for a family (monthly basis):

Rent: 3 bedroom flat (average price)    900
Internet and phone:                                   40
Car insurance + road tax + petrol            60
Electricity and water bill                          120
Food + household goods                         900
Kids' school + extra curricular                200
Medical and other expenses                  200

Total                                          Roughly   2400  (this excludes holidays and other leisure activities)

Average monthly rent per person is 1100 x 2 = 2200 (falling short 200euro/month)

Christian, let me share my experience here..

Internet and phone.
Home internet+TV is around 50eur per month, mobile + 3gb internet - 30eur per person per month.

Car & public transport
My car expenses a bit higher, and here we should add expenses for buses for 1 adult (if you will have only one car). And just a hint: You cannot live in Malta comfortably without a car.

School
If will have a job here you don't need to pay for a school, but I guess you prefer education on English, I am not sure that it's possible in government schools (maybe depends on city). Private schools are quite pricey.

In general I would say that 3000 eur income is more realistic estimate for realy comfortable life, but of course it's possible to live for 2400 too.


Good luck!

volcane wrote:

900 for food+household consumables is not unrealistic at all.

I agree, it depends what food you buy to treat yourself - and where you buy it 
We prefer to spend less on living (rent 300 and utility bills 50/month) and do not have any expenses for children or medical care (maybe 50-100 Euro per year for the dentist and an GP). But food and household goods for sure sum up to 800 Euro (good quality food, only the organic vegs cost 300-400 each month). And when we go out, we choose a nice restaurant, not the usual pizza/pasta/grill-stuff.

In total we have 3 cars and 2 motorcycles, which cost us insurance+road tax around 800 per year, so together with fuel we have to spend 120-150 Euro per month.

But, as it was mentioned before, the everage monthly cost do not cover purchase of a vehicle, purchase of furniture, expensive repairs, shopping for clothes, travel expanses 2-3 times per year and so on. If I break these expenses down, there's for sura another position of 500 Euro every month for the past few years.

WNadalin wrote:

Use the hook in this topic.. what your guys opinion about salaries .. a salary between 28k and 31k can be consider a good salary in Malta??

It’s very subjective to who you are which is why this kind of question doesn’t get answers, posting every day won’t help.

People I know who earn that tells me they have no problems.