hiiiiii, we have a big a** team working on these videos, so if you don't mind, support our team at the links in the description ⭐ - daniil "how-are-you-not-arrested-yet" orain UPD, for comparison: - Rural Russia, average rent: FREE, because barely anybody wants to live there, but in nearby cities it costs you $250 on average for a family apartments; - Small cities (in this case Taganrog), average rent: $225 for apartments with 3 rooms, in the city center, but some cost up to $600. - Moscow, average rent: around $700. UPD 2: This is monthly salaries! UPD 3: People gave us income in rubles, and we converted it into dollars at the rate of $1 = 90 rubles. UPD 4: It's after taxes
For months i have watched numerous vloggers' report on the Russian store prices and gasoline prices. They showed that the sanctions were not really affecting the average citizen. I always said that the prices did not show the real buying power of the Russian people if we do not know honestly what the people earn. This point was always ignored for some reason.
That's because most of those vloggers are in a big bubble and don't really know the real Russian reality (and most of the time they don't really admit it). By the way, sanctions are 100% working on a macroenonomical level...
I may have misunderstood your comment. If that is so, I apologize, but... The average rus (especially in rural areas, the far eastern/asian parts...compared to the capital areas) is NOT poor because of the sanctions or the brutal invasion of Ukraine (war & wartime economy...even more than usually funds directed at waging wars), they are poor because of corruption/corrupt leaders, and mismanaging of the countries funds. Which has been going on...forever. Under this tzar for over 20 years now. The wages (eg teachers) & pensions are so low because the country spends the riches received from selling the countries natural resources on "elites" instead of people and communities (from the areas where a lot of the countries natural resources come from). It is not a new practice, it has been so...always. Life for the average rural rus was hard before, and is hard now. But until they fully admit it to themselves, instead of choosing to remain in comfortable denial, they will keep living the same way. Until they keep delegating their thinking & decision making & acting to their leaders, they will keep living the same way. They do not seem to FULLY connect the dots between "life is hard" & "delegating their thinking to leaders, cause life is hard & it is much more comfortable to keep on the pink denial glasses & to delegate the hard parts to someone else than to deal with the harsh reality" Yes, prices (housing, groceries etc) are mostly lower than in Europe, but so is the income. And income (for majority of rus...outside of the muscovy area) is way lower than in western EU & Americas. Yes, army & war are basically the only option of income in some areas (in harsh terms: they know where to take the meat to the meatgrinder: the people there feel out of options & desperate...add some propaganda to it & voila...) What most do not understand fully is that solving ones financial difficulties in such a way is not the way, but they tend to come to that realization after it is too late... The sanctions & the war do affect many rus in some ways: closing of factories (many or all let go) due to deficit of western-made-parts, rising prices, fallen family members/friends...etc. But a lot of rus prefer to keep living in denial, so until they have a job, until they themselves are not drafted/mobilized....until it has affected them very personally and very directly, they prefer to keep their eyes shut (not think, not do research...just wait & hope for the best), even though they know that if they open their eyes they will see the reality for what they deep down know it is, not what they keep chanting to themselves to not feel so miserable. Their readiness to insist to themselves that the "happy illusion" instead of the "harsh, honest truth" is true, is...astounding to me.
I live in Russia, prices have risen, product quality has dropped significantly, many brands that supplied quality goods have left. These goods of departed brands are in stores, but they are imported through other countries and the price for them has increased, given the low standard of living of people, these goods have become inaccessible to them, the price of rubble equipment has risen in price. also increased by about 2 times over the past 1-2 years, the range has greatly decreased, mostly now these are Chinese non-names, or equipment brought through other countries, cars have become a luxury, the price has increased 2 times -2.5 times, which means sanctions are in effect , the ruble continues to fall and is already about 92 rubles per $ Most people earn about $ 300-400 But there are some people who have never seen good household appliances, they didn’t have a good car, they haven’t been abroad, this is the support of the regime, they will adapt to any sanctions, and propaganda from TV will tell them that the West is to blame for their poverty.
на самом деле подобные опросы мало что показывают в действительности, особенно если говорит о какой-то банальной статистике. У нас мышление у людей примерно такое "скажу что зарабатываю побольше, чтобы не думали, что я бедный" или "скажу что зарабатываю поменьше, чтобы там в центре знали, что нам здесь туго, мы бедствуем". Хотя конечно я практически уверен, что люди, живущие в регионах сказали свою реальную зп.
Somewhat shockingly low wages, especially for pensioners. A total shock since Russia claims to be so very wealthy that the standard of living generally is so low, even adjusted for lower domestic prices/cost of living. I have always wondered how Putin lives so well on a salary of $150,000 per year but still can afford two superyachts worth $1 billion and $100 million a year to operate. The wealth does not seem to be well distributed in Russia.
putin controls the petro dollars, so half for him and cadre, the other half for the People. I think he robbed and jailed the Khodorkovsky guy that was the 1st wealthiest russian after fall of iron curtain, he now lives in europe. Putin just confiscated all of his empire and wealth, and trumped up corruption charges had him in jail for 10 years.
You can easily live on $200 a month in Moscow (and even less in other cities), 'cause most Russians have their own apartments, for which they don't have to pay anything other than utilities and internet (about $100 a month total). Food is very cheap in Russia too. Also there's free healthcare for everyone and great public transportation, so you don't even need to have a car.
ужасный канал,подогревающий ненависть к России. многие иностранцы,посмотрев это видео,думают,что стали шарить за жизнь в России. если для их страны 1000$ мало, то в России вполне себе можно жить. у нас квартиры съёмные можно найти куда дешевле,чем в той же Америке.(а большенсто россиян имеют свои квартиры). продукты тоже гораздо дешевле. у нас в принципе похожая ситуация с Америкой,только у них цены на порядок выше, вот и зарплата соотвественно выше,но затраты в общем такие же или даже больше
You just can't accept the facts. 1100$ in Moscow is nothing because rent costs 500-600$ + you need food so thats 800-1000 combined. Iphone and computer parts cost the same everywhere and are actually cheaper in USA😉 1 m² in Moscow is 5000$, avg Moscowian that makes 1000$ will never be able to afford an apartment 😢
here they consider 1 dollar = 92 rubles, but the exchange rate jumps all the time, 2 months ago the dollar was = 76 rubles and this carousel happens all the time, and you also need to take into account prices, for example, in a 3-room apartment I pay 3,500 rubles in summer, and 6,000 in winter, then same with products
Bull, on the products claim. Russians wear and use products from the world around, since Russia makes virtually nothing, as pointed out by this channel when that exact question was asked of people on the street in Moscow, and 80% literally owned NOTHING that was made in Russia. You still pay a significant percentage of what we do in developed countries (in my case, the US) for most consumer goods because companies cannot sell at a loss, it is an unsustainable business model, every time. Tell me what cell phone you have and what you paid for it, or some other item, like Nike (or equivalent) shoes (assuming those really are Nikes, if not, you are probably buying junk, by comparison, because knock offs sell for far less for a reason). Am I really supposed to believe that you pay 1/50th of what I do for those items, as that would be the exchange rate for my salary compared to the average here? I don't, in fact I KNOW that you don't. That would work out to about $45 dollars for a Samsung S22, currently, as one example. You cannot begin to purchase that phone, probably for five times that price. Russians tend to be so delusional about their actual world economic standing, because they are lied to about it, and most other things, all the time. I laughed when one Russian was bragging that they paid 70 cents equivalent, for a gallon of gas. I looked up the average wage multiplication factor between the US and Russia, and at that moment we were paying what would be seven cents per gallon, to the average Russian income. You guys can't win at this, you can't even enter the same realm, we are light years apart, and about four decades apart in weapons tech.
@@MrJdsenior youre swinging your dick around like youre responsible for all the differences you described above. Obviously rural Russia is piss poor, but so is rural US
@@starseed8087 it's about currency rate, in the beginning of they year it was 60 rubles =1$, then 76 rubles, then 80 rubles, then 90, then it will drop again plus they're going to increase minimum wage up to 20% so.....
It's equally important for foreign viewers to note that a lot of Russians like exaggerating
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@@kirillzotin1983 Honestly I don't think they exaggerate. I think they're pretty honest with themselves and admit that it's bad, you can see the pain in most of them.
Underappreciation for teachers is certainly a global problem, that's for sure. It would be interesting to learn about the average cost of housing and utility services rural vs city
2 bedroom apartment in Kazan (average 'big' city) rent 200-300$ utility 50-100$ per month. In the rural area people don't rent houses, they live in their own. Utility costs 10-30$ per month. Most people in villages grow some food which helps a lot. Life in Moscow is much more expensive. 500-1000$ rent for a 2 bedroom apartment. Moscow is huge, so prices are different actually. Apartments in the city center are rented for many thousands of dollars per month.
That's because Russia is taxing their people much less than everyone else in Europe. They could increase taxes for salaries and give this money to pensioners. But if you look at US. You must save the money yourself for retirement. If you don't do it you're fucked and end up on the streets.
Yup, the so called oldest profession in the world instantly came to my mind. Another was crime, which in Russia is usually termed corruption, and is a widely practiced standard, apparently. Putin and the oligarchs have done REALLY well with that, to the tune of personal cruise lines, etc. Thumbed, best comment reading down the thread to this point.
Teachers and kindergarten teachers are some of the most important jobs there are, yet still they make lousy pay. Its a shame. Massive, massive love and respect to all people working in such jobs, all over the world.
If the Russians had come to live in the 21st century, rather than still yearning to return to the USSR days of the 1940s through 60s... as another highly educated Northern European people ---- but ones with more land, more gold, more oil, more gas, more diamond, more nukes, more rare earths, etc than 99.99% of other people on earth --- they could be living an extremely affluent society. But since they prefer peace loving Mafia ruling over unruly but dynamic pluralistic societies, instead of living like the Fins, Swedes, and Norwegians, the Russians are living more like the "more affluent" 2nd and 3rd world people (like the Thais, Vietnamese, Iranians, Indians, Indonesians, Argentinians, Brazilians et al)... But, again --- and unlike 2nd and 3rd world nations and people ---- the Russians are HIGHLY EDUCATED, with WORLD CLASS research universities, chess players, computer scientists, astrophysicists, mathematicians, medical doctors, engineers, researchers, etc. There is just something way off with the Russians.... BTW, Russia's 11 time zone and bountiful land.... is almost 80% of the combined lands of the US and China, two of the 4 largest lands on earth... but there's only 145M Russians. The US has 335M people and China has 1.45B people. So, no matter how you look at it, the Russians are blessed with SO MANY THINGS --- from high literacy like other northern Europeans to having literally boundless natural resources ---- & yet they managed to make themselves almost as poor as 2nd and 3rd nations and people....
You are slightly mistaken in your opinion of these teachers. Many of them support the regime's propaganda, hammer it into the heads of children and when elections happen they falsify the ballots. I tell you this as the son of a teacher.
Come on! Teachers in Moscow and other big cities have a lot! Why taxpayers from big cities have to pay for big salaries of teachers in small regions? That's why such a big difference.
Еще нелепо, когда школьники (сидящие на маминой шее, или в силу дошкольного возраста не знакомы с заработком) смело заявляют, что средняя ЗП в Москве = от 60-70к. Хочется верить, своя реальность, понимаю - но с этим далеко не уедешь. Сами не работают, но уверенно пукают. Хотя, если говорить про программистов (джуны), так и есть. Но вот досада, далеко не все в Москве являются программистами. Если брать основную часть рабочих (кассиры, охранники, грузчики, фельдшеры и т.п) - то да, среднее значение в районе - 35-40к.
In the next video, you should ask them why they think their salaries are so low given that they have a huge amount of resources, and where they think the huge amounts of wealth have gone instead. I know the answers will be delusional, but I still wanna see it.
Bro the salaries are not low given how much they have to spend. $700 is an average income in entire Russia and one can live just fine in Russia for this amount
Unfortunately we could ask similar questions about how our billionaires in the West have all their wealth and why should wealth be focused on such a small number of people out of the whole population. Appalachia had some of the greatest natural wealth in the USA and look at the poverty there now... Why?
@@flopunkt3665 why is coal being so däemonised. The People's R. of China and Russia are wiser to continue using coal and even increasing the amounts of coal they mine and use because they wish energy.
@@intelligentLeguy Its the fact that person publicly keep talking about it about someone is very demeaning. I don't care about what gender said that, it would still disgust me and it was topic about wage not bed partners. Talking about that in such way is nothing to be proud of.
Totally agree with this one. Don`t need to be urban even, smaller cities also compared to capitals or big cities. While living in Latvia - its totally fucked up and statistics is fake about average salary. With minimum you can pay rent bills and literally you don`t have much for food/clothing anything else really. Electricity prices and other product inflation in like last year is like 50-100% without much salary changes. Pensions also suck. Better not to live till your retirement as you wont be able to survive, if married and the spouse also lives with you same flat to be able to survive. Starving pensioners are real here. One of most unprotected group of people along with disabled people and children. Highly underpayed and corrupt relatives get tens of thousands in Latvia, if not more when doing nothing and their secretaries doing the work for misery pay. Latvia is fucked up and corrupt to core. I wish we would become colony of Finland or some developed country. Well, good that I am not born in Russia at least.
I am from the poorest country in the European Union (Bulgaria). Just some comparison info between the poorest country in the EU and Russia. Minimum salary per month - 400$. The average salary starts at 650$ in the poorest region of the country to 1200$ in the capital Sofia. The minimum pension is $260. The average pension is around $350-400$ The minimum teacher salary is 800$. The average teacher's salary is 1000$-1100$ IT sector average salary is 2000$ +
The highest paying cities in Russia: Moscow- 1610$ Moscow oblast-920$ (this is a lot of small other cities that are part of Moscow) Saint-Petersburg- 1100$ Murmansk-1260$ Surgut-1053$ Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky-1122$
It shows us something about the difference city village, and also that there are too big differences between the different occupations. It's not uncommon in the former Eastern Bloc countries. It's ironic that in the former communist countries, the class divide is actually bigger than in the capitalist West. Oligarchs are laughing all the way to the bank.
for some of the eastern bloc... but Czechia or Slovenia or Slovakia are exceptions where the state assets were fairly equally divided to the people in 1990. and not just stolen by western business men or criminal oligarchs. They are still some of the most equal wealth countries in teh world.
@@konskift I know. Those countries are historically and culturally more "West" than "Russian" anyway. The top-heavy Russian Czar/communist comitees with all their slaves is a Russian thing.. should never have come to Europe.
Not sure. If you live from social welfare in Germany its also only food and shelter. And shelter/housing is the way for the rich house owners to keep the rents open.
It was never 'socialist' or 'communist'. Those were pipedreams that Stalin already had figured out. It was all rhetoric to keep people think they were doin a good thing. An extension, as you may, of Goebbels thinking. Putin is trying this exact same thing to justify his attack on Ukraine.
Not all teachers anf farmers get that low salaries. I know a few(i don't know many teachers) teachers that make 2k USD+. There also are a lot of successful farmers, especially in southern regions. Also keep in mind that prices in russia are 3-4 times lower than, for example, in US
3:50 Sorry? Is he saying he raped a woman? Can someone please tell me this is not true. I don't even know what to say. Why I think that: I highly doubt that if his story is true a woman just suddenly wanted to have sex with several colleagues or strangers at the same time. Also his chosen words sound like he used an object, not have consent sexual intercourse. I feel sick now.
...everybody is jelaous on russia because its such a rich country. And all the amazing ressources they have😂 I want to invade russia 😂😂😂 really I want some of theire ressources but Vladimir Vladimirovitsh is such a great leader its not possible.
Oh yes those filthy ressources, they have so plenty we want them so much, if it wasnt for their great leader and its protective aura i would already be mining some precious cobalt in the middle of a russian sprout field while getting pregnant all the babushkas and ballet dancers of the hood.
Me watching this as someone in London, UK who turned to freelancing after being made redundant during the pandemic and struggled for a while. And I only just felt like this year I was finally getting stable because I had only just managed to attract enough clients to break through the £3,000 a month mark (about $3,850), which was what I needed to get me back on track with savings etc. 😳 I understand that the cost of living in most of Russia is much less than in London, but damn. No wonder most Russians never go abroad. Hardly anyone can afford it.
I am from Russia and curious, how do you spend that money. like what are your expenses, how much are you able to save each month. Because in Moscow you can live an ok life with 750 dollars a month, like you will have enough to pay for your rent/mortgage, buy products, eat out from time to time, have some fun with friends and keep some change for the future expenses (clothing and some other stuff that you don’t do each month).
@@aynes8099 My mortgage payment is just under £1,000 per month - and that's relatively low for London. People who rent similar properties generally have to pay a lot more. Hopefully that gives you some idea how high the cost of living is here.
@@aynes8099 I just checked the local housing rental sites and the typical monthly rent for similar properties to the one I live in is £1,500-£2,000. London is a really expensive place.
I traveled to and lived in a poor country. The thing that struck me wasn't just the wide variety of wages, but it was that almost everyone was making near the bottom. So in that country, it was like $220 per month, and maybe 90% of the people made that, teachers, nurses, store workers, fast food.. there was almost no range for anyone, maybe 220-350. Then there were people who worked for foreign companies that made like $1200-$1500 a month. In the USA, of course we have minimum wage which is probably like $1500 per month, but very few make that... and people like new nurses or teachers are at like $4000 per month. In that country, college educations were almost free, but there was very little earnings increase if you had a degree.
Not many in the US make minimum wage because they would starve if they did! Almost 2 million people work for the federal minimum wage which hasn't been raised in close to 20 years. If minimum wages had kept up with inflation since the 60's, the minimum wage in the US would be around $24/hour which is almost $4000/month.
This is the case even in expensive and rich European countries. A poorly paid job (e.g. McDonald's cashier) in Austria brings about 1500, a very well paid job (doctor, IT expert) about 3000 euros net per month. Almost nobody earns more than that. But you can also live quite well on 1500, or even less. I make about 1000 a month because I don't feel like working more than 2 days a week and I can afford the rent in a beautiful 19th century building with a big garden, 10 minutes walk next to a UNESCO world heritage old town, and I travel abroad about 2-3 months a year just for fun. I've also done two Master's degrees purely out of interest, a 2-year Master's - no matter what subject - costs less than 100 euros including everything (books, fees, insurance, etc.). Maybe I'll do a third one. I'll always be poor, but I have zero stress in life and can see the world. I think if you want to earn a lot of money, the USA is the best place to be.
@@oleeb I agree completely. I am not really talking about it in relation to the USA.. but in most poor countries, it would be like if 80% of the people in the USA made under $10/hr, including teachers, nurses etc. There is only a sliver of the population there who even thinks about buying property or a car, almost everyone just tries to get buy with basic food, clothes and keeping the lights on... but it is everyone, even people with college educations and 'good' jobs. I dated a woman who had been an architect for 15 years, absolutely no hope of buying a house or a new car..no vacations...
@@durandil What exactly are the things that are paid by the taxes in Europe different from the US? Except healthcare which majority of Americans have through the employer?
Откуда кремлеботы берут информацию о том, что 80% россиян имеют собственное жилье? Да, у меня есть своя квартира и я ее купил, мне ее не подарило государство. У большинства моих знакомых нет такой возможности, они снимают квартиру, платят ипотеку или просто живут с родителями в свои 20-25-35, никому на 18 лет государство не предоставило отдельную собственную квартиру. Около 25% людей в возрасте 25-35 лет в России живут с родителями, примерно такие же цифры в США, в Германии и Северной Европе значительно меньше. В России если ты хочешь начать самостоятельную жизнь или завести семью, ты точно также вынужден арендовать квартиру или брать ипотеку, государство не подарит тебе ее.
Есть такая проблема в развитых странах там перспективно и модно покупать недвижимость иностранцами, что очень плохо сказывается на ценах для местного населения. Например в Австралии очень остро такая проблема стоит, там даже вводят квоты для жилья которое могут купить иностранцы. Поэтому цены на жилье там чрезвычайно завышены. В России богатые иностранцы не инвестируют в недвижимость, может быть только Москва и Санкт-Петербург и то очень ограничено. Поэтому стоимость жилья в России более доступна для жителей.
@@alex-0 В развитых странах такая проблема есть только в туристических регионах, где из-за туристов и инвесторов цены на жилье становятся неподъемными для местного населения. Если мы говорим в целом про Германию, Великобританию, Францию, США и тем более Скандинавию, то есть большую часть капиталистического мира, то жилье там более доступно для среднего жителя. В этих странах значительно ниже процент людей, продолжающих жить с родителями в возрасте 25+, и это легко объяснить. В России сумасшедшая гиперцентрализация, большая часть молодого активного населения сосредоточена в Москве, Петербурге, Краснодаре и еще паре мегаполисов. Да вы можете быть везунчиком и жить в Воркуте, где квартиры продаются за $300, но с большой вероятностью, если вы россиянин, то вы живете в крупном городе или даже Москве, где цены на жилье просто неподъемные относительно местных зарплат. Конечно есть страны, где среднестатистическому жителю арендовать/купить жилье намного сложнее, чем среднестатистическому россиянину, но среднестатистическому молодому американцу и западноевропейцу однозначно легче арендовать или купить жилье.
@@УважаемыйИван-с9ч It is hard for you, that is sure. But you have to be brave, and go out and set fire to the electrical substation in your city. Try not to get caught of course, but do it even if you will get caught.
@@uncletiggermclaren7592 firstly, this will not change the situation because people like me are a minority, and secondly, I do not want to go to jail. I decided that I will not help any of the parties in this conflict - this is not my war, but the war of those who make decisions and who started it - they will be responsible for their actions
Russian people do not seem to understand that the whole world hold them responsible for what takes place Ukraine. Of course you cannot escape your responsibility of your governments actions. Then you should have protested long time ago, today no one like Russian people Ukrainian top tenis player on Russian rival: Well, we are not friends, we are at war After Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the support of Belarus, relations between several of the top female players are very cold. For example, the classic 'thank you for the match' is over.
I am a 62 year old from Canada, took early retirement at age 55, and my pension right now is $3,655 per month. It will increase at age 65. We have custody of two of our grandchildren, so also receive additional $450/month child benefits. Things in Canada are certainly more expensive than in Russia, but the disparity is amazing. All my "living expenses" (taxes, utilities, car, house insurance, food, etc come to less than $2,000/month so i basically have over $2,000/month in "disposable" income. I was very lucky to have been born were i was and not in Russia.
That's certainly true for someone of your generation, but unlike people of my generation, every individual around my age I know in Russia and Belarus own their own homes. My friend in Minsk's total for her monthly utility bills and taxes is less than $100. And my mother gets around $1,500 per month between OAS, GIS, and CPP so you must have been a teacher, nurse, constable, or some other atypically high paying job most Canadians have no chance of getting.
You were lucky to be born 62 years ago in Canada, not right now when the prices for hosting quadrupled for the last two decades in such areas as Vancouver or Toronto. 😅
Just turned 60. I am in no way ready for retirement. Have soooo much to do and see, I know that the pension will never be enough to do what I want to do and see what I want to see. The company I work for has no retirement age but they are very flexible as they appreciate a good employee. So I will reduce the number of days I work. But keep the money rolling in. I have unlimited overtime but that has come from the loyalty and quality of work. It helps that the quality of new employees is just not . How can I say? Not. Not prepared to try. Not imaginative. Not willing. As useless as tits on a bull. If I could find someone that could do my job. I could take a holiday and I would be so happy. $50. Au per hour, time and a half first the 3 hours double time for every hour after that. Service technician, fix machinery. Not a rocket scientist. Need to be focused, have some fun, take your time and relaxed.
@@jordanjohnandersonпривет из Минска. Коммуналка до 100 долларов? Это смотря где. Вот серьезно. Квартиру найти за 500 рублец (при средней зарплате в 700) - это титанический труд.
@@KrokoDildos Я забыл точную цифру, но это определенно было меньше 100 долларов. Кроме того, я имею в виду только оплату за воду, электричество и т.д. Я уверен, что она платит по ипотеке, и я не знаю, какую сумму она заплатила за покупку. Я просто хотел подчеркнуть, что иметь дом в Минске более достижимо, чем даже в моем маленьком городке в Канаде. Средняя арендная плата здесь составляет около 2000 долларов в месяц. Электричество, вода и т.д. - все это дополнительные расходы.
The girl at 2:33 said from 100 000 rubles to 160 000 rubles, which means from 1100 to 1800 $ as per the temporary low rate of Ruble now, but the author of the video decided it is only 650 to 1100 $.
Life is not fair! I work as an financial analyst full time like some people in this video plus some side business 7 hours a week and make $7300 a month in total at 26 y.o. before taxes. They make a fraction of that not because they work any less harder than me, but because they were born in Russia and not Norway or any other first world country for that matter.
@@tet_rider3117 $5500, about 35% tax on that amount. Got university for free and free healthcare, so I put over $3000 in savings every month as I have no student debt.
"Life is not fair". Seriously, you just figured that out? And it has nothing to do with fairness, in this case, it has to do with a sheeple population that will let their govt walk all over them, and profess their love for it to their dying days, most of them. There is such a thing as karma and consequences, it's not like they HAVE to have it this way. In my lifetime, Gorbachev ended the USSR, thank god, for them too, although they are headed back that way now, and what do they do? They make sure that they head right back into poverty and slavery. You can see it in many of the people in these videos "We should go back to the USSR, where there wasn't SEX". What a fruitcake. Go read up on the USSR if you are interested and don't know. What there was, in actuality, were people running for the Berlin wall, or tunneling underneath it, many of them, which was built to keep the Soviet people IN, getting shot to death most of the time in the attempt. Yeah, sounds just like a utopia, doesn't it? No kidding, two people, in two different instances, jumped off of Soviet ships in the middle of the ocean, one swimming to a Coast Guard ship, and on MILES to (IIRC) the Philippines. You can look these up to verify. When their traveling troops, like the Bolshei (Moscow, I think) Ballet or athletes at the Olympics, etc. came to free countries, they were ALL watched at every second (literally, not figuratively) so that they would not defect, and even with all that, just from the ballet company, at least two did, Nureyev and Barishnikov. There is a somewhat silly Robin Williams movie based on that subject. One former KGB agent defected to the US, voluntarily gave up TONS of intel, and refused to remain in the US because he knew that there were KGB operatives in the CIA (the CIA did too, at that point, at least, maybe before, and would feed them useless or false information, or turn them as double agents) who would come after him, and kill him, as the USSR and Russians have done the entire six and a half decades I've been alive. Two, not that long ago, were targeted in foreign countries, one with a radioactive pellet, and one with poison, both confirmed. One, who exposed the real workings of the Russian govt, Nevalny, went back, for some reason that escapes me, and was recently imprisoned. He is being treated VERY badly, beaten regularly. There have been many, many more. Don't you just love a country that has people constantly risking their lives to get away, and tells you how they are the best country on Earth? Many countries, actually almost all of them that build border walls, do it to keep others OUT, as the US and Finland are doing right now, to name just two. MANY people risk capture and detainment to illegally enter my country, the US, and we, as citizens, spend half our lives bitching about one aspect or 100 others of our nation, which compared to Russia, IS a utopia. We can go hold up signs with actual writing condemning anything we want, without fearing any reprisals. Hold up a BLANK sign in Russia and see what happens to you, you end up in a labor camp for 15 years. In China you get 'reeducated', and if you don't reeducate, you get disappeared, and virtually all the protesters that were protesting the COVID policies did, per their families, who can contact virtually none of them, and have no idea where they are or what has happened to them. I can tell you though, they are being reeducated or sent to labor camps, or ended and buried. THAT is Chinese SOP, when you do ANYTHING remotely contradicting the govt, even in private, if they find out about it.
@@przemysawkurycki6435 Renting, sharing with my gf, so I only pay $700 per month here in Oslo. Planning to buy next year as we have the down payment ready.
Sometimes I do student jobs during the summer here in Switzerland and I make about $2600 a month with that, and I barely have any experience with anything. Obviously prices here are very different from Russia, but a quick search shows that the purchasing power here is still higher than in Russia. It's sad to see the huge gap that separates the cities from the countryside in this country.
Well, if you have your own house in Switzerland, one or 2 cars, you can afford to travel to different countries more than once a year, then yes, your standard of living is better than people in Russia who earn less than 650$
Switzerland is very rare exception like Luxemburg or Liechtenstein. McDonalds there pays more than median salary in most EU countries let alone rest of the world.
@@Michelle_641 лол, хрущевка, 2 гнилых чепырки и турция на лето - вот тебе твои стандарты тут надо сравнивать покупательскую способность, а она у нас сейчас на уровне африки, учитывая цены на машины, квартиры, и даже банально технику
The smarter you have to be for the job, the higher the salary. The dumber jobs pay less, like farmer, teacher (in russia teachers are practically regarded as babysitters, they don't teach anything as you can see the results: the whole country believed the wildly stupid lies and now they are in the middle of a war), etc.
There is such a big diference between Moscow and the rest of Russia. I live in Romania. Prices are almost the same with russia or even lower. I am sales field agent and I earn minimum net wage in Romania witch is 470 dollars + commisions. Somethimes i took more than 1500 dollars per month and i work 3-4 hours a day, 5 days per week. I have a brother who works in the IT industry. He take somethimes more than 5000 dollars per month. There is not much diference between Romania and Russia but here people from the country side earn the same with the people from cities. But there is diference and thats not ok.
As usual, those that do important work are underpaid. The teachers, the farmers, the postwoman etc. That teacher's assistant was painfully thin. And then there are the IT people, even someone working in bitcoin... Gods our world is utterly stupid.
Painfully thin ? Are you implying that she's so poor that she can't afford food and therefore starving? That's probably one of the stupidest things I've heard lately. Poor people are on the contrary usually overweight because they can only afford cheap junk food, mostly carbs. This girl is just naturally thin or working out and watches what she eats.
IT people has a lot of job now - western software comapanies are leaving, IT speacialists are leaving and there is a huge number of project to mobe economy and business on a local software
Minimalnaja zarplata v Litve osenju byla 730€, teper uzhe 840€. Rost 110€. Posle novovo goda podnimajut do 924€. To jest rost tolko za dva goda pochti 200 €. V Rosiji osenju minimalka byla 230€, zimoj 200€, teper uzhe tolko 150€. Skolko budet posle novovo goda? 100€? 120€? U nas tolko odin rost bolshe chem u vas VSIA minimalka. Raznica v 5 raz (840€/150€). Pochemu takaja nischeta? Vychodyli iz SSSR 32 goda nazad vse vmeste, imeli odinakovyje startovyje vozmozhnosti. V Litve netu gaza, nefti i drugich poleznych iskopajemych, u Rosiji jest vsio. Pochemu takaja nischeta, vse dengi na vojny i propagandu? Rosija tianet v takuju zhe nischetu i beznadiogu i okupirovanuju Belarus.
It's not easy as there's no standard "cost of living" in Russia, just like comparing San Franscisco with run-down areas of Chicago for accommodation costs. Ditto for land prices, compare with NY vs. NV. Food prices are a bit more "level" throughout, and that's not particularly cheap either - barely less than in the UK for supermarkets and rather lower for restaurants. Needless to say, people in rural Russia often rely on locally grown food and self/locally-built houses...
I've done the calculations. Purchasing power of Russia still much lower than UK / US / Europe. One of the few exceptions being housing. Also Moscow has higher salaries than rest of Russia
Multiply by 4 or 6, you will get an idea. If someone makes £1000 per month in Moscow or St.Petersburgh, it is equivalent to £4000 in London. If you are earning a $1000 salary in other Russian cities, you are making an equivalent of £6000 of English money in UK. The cost of living is much much lower in Russia. Majority of Russians make around £600 per month, which translates to £3600 in English money, somewhere near Cardiff (before taxes)
The most noticeable thing when you live there is that local goods and services are fairly priced, and all import goods are insanely expensive. But rural Russia and urban Russia are two different planets.
The difference is huge distances from the capital. For example, as a resident of the Far East, I am a teacher IT, I earn about $400 a month at a state university, although in Moscow there may be more earnings
@@danielwells774Some things in Russia costs pretty cheap, examples are: internet, phone calls, maybe gas and oil, that's all, most things like clothes, Smartphones and even food in Russia it's already pretty expensive, things like computer parts(cpu, gpu, motherboards and etc), cars it's VERY expensive here in Russia, Russia may be cheap for foreigners from more developed and wealthiest countries like US, Germany, UK, Australia, Sweden where people ofc living way better than most russian cities, but it's not cheap for russians outside Moscow and Saint Pt. Moscow and Saint Petersburg is only two cities in Russia where people living with really decent incomes, other russian simple cities are pretty poor with average salaries 25-30000 russian rubles(count how much it in dollars), so what do we have that only two russian cities living good, but most other living pretty bad and poor unfortunately.
Россия слишком огромная страна, братан. Есть бесконечно богатые люди, а есть люди, которые видели, допустим море, только по телевизору и вряд-ли когда либо увидят его в живую. В принципе, как и во всех больших странах очень сильное расслоение общества в материальном плане
A three-bedroom granite-built apartment with huge attic space is under $100,000 (equivalent) here up North and a shed costs more in London. "It depends where you live", always... : ) Prices have to go up when people start getting comfortable otherwise they wouldn't work as hard, which is needed by the government!
@@PDCRed Well, we'll keep this location a secret, then, and continue to benefit from cheaper housing and decent quality environment away from the rat-race! 15 miles of beach to the North, castles, scenic cliffs to the South, rolling quiet countryside and huge country parks inland, etc. And closer to £70k, actually... ; )
I'm born and raised in London, from my experience you need 1k a week to live fairly comfortable. I'm get it luckily working in construction atm. But my rent is £1400 a month for a 1 bedroom apartment. And I have alot of bills on top of that such as council tax, electricity, gas, water, road tax, car insurance. Plus by the time you add shopping and petrol costs I'm left with less than 1k to live on for the whole month. Earning 1k a week sounds like a lot but in London the money goes so quick.
In the UK I was able to find a puddle to sleep in for under four hundred quid. Landlord wanted £2500 but I told him I could pay the deposit. Then a hawk swooped him up.
Многие молодые люди (да и не только) даже не пытались как - то убедительно врать. Прям видно что задумываются на секунду - хотят назвать большую сумму, но так, чтобы не зазнаваться.
It all eventually comes into equiblirium. If people can't buy foreign stuff they'll sell stuff which causes increase of value for their currency (now that they dumped the dollar). So Ruble now is totaly market driven.
It would help if there was a comparison between the cost of living and the salaries. Hard to tell if the salary is good or bad you don't know the cost of living for a certain area
iPhone 14 pro max costs $1400 in Moscow. Brand new Lada Granta with the cheapest trim level costs over $7500. One can rent a decent single bedroom apartment for $500/month in Moscow. Food prices are more or less same around the world.
@multiplayer - Noooooo, not even close with regard to food prices. For instance, in some parts of Mexico you pay as little as 1/6 of what you would pay in the USA for non-imported food products. I have seen tomatoes going for a third or a quarter of what they cost in the USA, and with restaurants, the disparity can be even higher because of a lower cost of labor.
@@jonahscher-zagier8196 I am from Uzbekistan, I have traveled most of the ex-USSR, and been to some other Asian countries. And everywhere I have managed to find cheap street food: I would have a hearty meal for $3 or less; and cheap groceries (except some fruits, in northern countries they were more pricey). Locals in Belarus have told me that groceries are supposedly cheaper in neighboring Poland. Never been to the Americas though, maybe food in Mexico is even less costly. But my original point stands, an average Westerner can buy a new phone without taking a loan, and can save up for a decent car in a year or less. Whereas in ex-Soviet countries most of the population has to save money to buy a new pair of shoes.
@@multiplayerlove It is possible that price variation is low across ex-Soviet countries and parts of central Asia. That still does not change the fact that food prices are not at all the same across the world overall. For instance, good luck finding a hearty meal for $3 in Manhattan. You might get one hot dog! By contrast, in Mexico City, with some luck, you might find a street food booth that would give you two dozen tacos for that! And indeed, why would people expect food prices to be invariant across the world? Locally grown plants will have prices dependent on the local price of labor to grow them. Restaurants and food stands have to cover the cost of living of their employees.
minimum living wage marked by government for 2023 is around 165-200 USD, minimum salary is 180 USD. Basically with this kind of money even in the poorest region is just to survive with the cheapest food and clothes, to buy anything more is available only with a credit. lots of people from the video get even less then minimum
As a Russian, I can say that it's not about corruption only. People there don't tend to claim for more. I mean, I was changing my positions every 1-2 years to grow. There are a lot of people who make crazy amounts of money and absolutely legal. However, these people can easily stay for 20-30 years in one place with a modest income. The same situation is in political will. After 70 years of a totalitarian regime, they still tend to obey more and demand less. In the Soviet Union, the incomes were quite equal, so there wasn't a point in looking for something bigger. In the 90-s all the powers were tearing apart the Soviet heritage. Those who succeded became the rich, who didn't - the poor. Now the most successful gangs became the government, and everything is more settled, but people are still afraid of changing their lives.
I assume you mean people are so poor they must be corrupt. But real corruption is the lot of the wealthiest. And that is CERTAINLY ot just a Russian problem.
@@lllordllloyd I guess that I can't disagree. This was actually mentioned when the US Congress wanted to raise their own pay. They wanted more money to reduce temptation.
I am a student (4th year) in russia (village). I started working not long ago. I am ios dev in IT company. I get 1800$ a month. I dont pay for rent or any medicine, i also get money every day to spend on food (company provides). I have latest Apple devices (mac, ipad, iphone, airpods). My parents are middle class, they dont get much and have some debts that i ofc will help them to cover later. But they live a very good life that most people in richest countries dont have. When i was younger i always thought that i was unlucky to be born in russia, we are poor and sad, but now talking with my friends from france, us and canada and reading the news i must say i am lucky enough. I may earn way less than them but i can afford a lot more for my money and yes i travel a lot too. Im not a gov supporter but russia is amazing country and has amazing people 🙂
@@rallyycar6750 i love a lot of western stuff but i also love my country. I dont have to choose the sides here. I dont dislike US or people there. However, I grown up with certain values so i do not support and understand certain things people believe elsewhere, that is normal tho.
Its actually, not about country, but what your relative income is. You are IT, they are overpayed as fuck, and your parents were middle class which itself puts you into more of an upperclass. Middle class is around 14% according to data I found. So imagine, you like like what almost top 20% of country. In every country like that you would be doing great and you chose good profession also so :)
I am Russian, and I have lived both in a megalopolis (Moscow, Saint Petersburg), a large (Nizhny Novgorod, Kazan), and in the middle (Cheboksary) cities in Russia, and the salaries mentioned in the video correspond to reality. In addition, pensions for the majority of the population are really very low. Only there is something that is not taken into account: the cost of living and services. It is much cheaper to live in Russia than in almost all European countries and North America. For example: the cost of a one-time trip to the metro in Moscow or Saint Petersburg - ~€0.6, in London, say, £5. In Russia, a very cheap taxi: in the capital, depending on the time, you can get from one end of the city to the other for €5-€10, what's in Western Europe or major US cities I think it will be hard to imagine. A liter of gasoline costs €0,45-€0,5. An ordinary apartment in the capital can be rented for €300-€400 (~€30,000-€40,000), and in the second city of the country for €220-300 (~₽22,000-₽30,000), utilities for her per month will be in the area €20-€60 (~₽2000-₽6000) depending on the time of year and the area of the apartment. We have a very cheap and at the same time fast Internet. We usually pay monthly €3,5-€5,5. In a decent restaurant, you can dine for €10. And food in supermarkets is often 2-3 times cheaper than in Walmart or Lidl. You can often go to museums, cinemas for €1.5-€2.5, get a haircut for €3 and so on. From my life experience, I can say that the minimum wage for which a person can live month in Russia is €150 (₽15,000). And then it all depends on the level of your needs. Someone with an income of €300 feels good, and someone with €2000 is not enough. Of course, a lot depends on whether you have your own home and family. P.S. quite by chance on the video I found my school familiar, with whom I took the history exam together in 2016. How cramped the world is. He's at 0:13. Hi, Alex Morozov.
Если у тебя есть собственная квартира и ты живёшь в регионе, то да, "выжить" на 15к можно, но с этими условиями , вряд-ли ты сохранишь своё здоровье) А если квартиры нет, и ты вынужден её снимать, то тогда 80% от 15к уйдёт на самую дешёвую квартиру, где ты будешь спать с тараканами на голове, а на остальные 3к попробуй проживи ) И это я только про регионы говорю)
Привет! Я не русский, но немного интересуюсь вашей страной. то, что вы говорите, правильно. На самом деле важно не то, сколько вы зарабатываете, а то, каковы цены. хоть ты и мало зарабатываешь, но на зарплату до 25 000 рублей можно прожить даже со съемной квартирой. на западе нельзя с эквивалентом этой зарплаты. С уважением
В Москве все богатые и молодые а в деревне старые и бедные. Предлагаю всем россиянам бросить работу в деревнях, переехать в Москву, заниматься танцами и выжиганием волос чтобы всем стать молодыми, богатыми и счастливыми.
Nice, 350 for a farmer who works all day to feed the people meanwhile Putins daughter has billions. The daughter of the defense minister bought a 18 million dollar house the Russian people should get rid of those leeches and their families Zar style as soon as possible. Maybe Putin really should get his special gaddafi treatment.
Да мы сами в шоке от разницы зп. Разница между моей начальной в родном городе и в Москве сейчас отличается где-то в 4 раза. А первоначальная ставка 10 лет назад...я даже не хочу вспоминать, это бомжевание, если бы не помощь мамы.
Moscow people seem to make about the same as the smaller cities in poorer countries of EU, like Romania, maybe slightly less(I’ve heard public transport drivers talk between themselves and mentioning that they make ~900 euros while Software Engineers, ~1600 freshly hired student to 5000-6000 tech lead).
Interesting that the jobs that literally hold civilization together such as teachers and farmers make the least amount of money. What does that say about humanity as a whole?
Well, it is similar in Australia and New Zealand, in that Nurses, Drs, teachers don't get paid as much as engineers, Tradesmen, or people in the finance industry. It does seem wrong, when you consider how important their work is to society.
In Canada, teachers are at the top of the paying scale and have lot of perks, sick days, long holidays and big pensions. They still strike every year asking for more.
@@AntonGullyor that those jobs don’t require as many qualifications and are therefore easier to replace people in. We can all learn how to farm fairly easily (which until recently 80-90% of all people did), but it’s harder to be a database engineer like the dude in the video, that takes years of training to do.
I’m a plumber helper and make about 4300$ in the US. Btw I came here from Moscow where I used to be a category manager and made about 1500$. In the US I would make 10-20k for comparable work
A big hug to all the teachers of the world, you are real heroes sadly you’re under appreciated . K to 12th grade Teachers salaries are a joke in most of the countries, including in the US. 😞
It’s pretty bad that some of them people are working. And earning less then if you were on benefits in the uk 😮 the farmer. The people that feed the nation is poor to the floor
They make same amount of money as EVERY Eastern European country that Joined UE past 20 years 😂😂😂 Difference is Russia isn't pawn state as all of those joke countries, expecially poland 😂😂
Poland "the tough guy", just like the Baltic states, all talk no action, they only talk because they are in Nato, without that they would be very quiet.
This is a great video. I imagine how long it took - you don't just approach people asking about their income and then leave - it took small talk and some pleasantries to gain some level of trust. Thank you
Who's poor? Russians are not poor. You can easily live on $200 a month in Moscow (and even less in other cities), 'cause most Russians have their own apartments, for which they don't have to pay anything other than utilities and internet (about $100 a month total). No HOA fees Food is very cheap in Russia too. Also there's free healthcare for everyone and great public transportation, so you don't even need to have a car. Higher education is free in Russia as well. Poor are hundreds of thousands of homeless Americans who live in the streets, or those Americans who work two-three jobs just to pay their rent and bills. Many of them also have hundreds of thousands of dollars in medical, student or credit card debt.
Don't forget about an exchange rate. Now it is about 90 rubles per 1 dollar. For example in September 2022 1 dollar was about 60 rubles, so it is not really stable and the salaries could be higher in dollar now. Of course, people should get more money for what they do (teachers for example), but just take it into account as well.
It's so funny, that he didn't make video when dollar was 50. I think it would be around 80, but that's really fun he take the worst time to show how poor people are, like TV does.
You can easily live on $200 a month in Moscow (and even less in other cities), 'cause most Russians have (fully own) their own apartments, for which they don't have to pay anything other than utilities and internet (about $100 a month total). No HOA fees. Food is very cheap in Russia too (for example, a loaf of bread is 30 cents, 10 eggs are $1), many times cheaper than in the US. Also there's free healthcare for everyone (very cheap medical drugs too - 10 times cheaper than in the US) and great public transportation, so you don't even need to have a car. Also, higher education is free in Russia (so no student debt). Did I mention that there's only 13% flat rate income tax for everyone (by the way, the salaries mentioned in the video are after taxes). Is that the same in the US? I know it's not.
God look at how skewed the results are. The people who live on 150-160 a month just blow my mind. As an American that sounds like some super scary shit. It looks like they have old homes they inherited but never had the money to modernize and they're just barely getting by with food. I take my computer, phones and videogames for granted. Then you see people living right near-by who are obviously too young to be anyone important but they're in positions that pay about 1k. Which says two things, they're making like 10 times what the poorest people are making, but also that the jobs that pay alot over there hardly pay anything compared to a regular USD job. I can make 2,000 a month working at a grocery store in California, meanwhile these people went to college and probably took on debt to be a coder for 1100 a month or a teacher for 480. Jobs I would consider especially prestigious make a fraction of what some of the lowest paid US employees who work full time jobs make. That's mind blowing.
А с чем сравнение? Я себе на зарплату 1500$ могу позволить больше, чем,допустим, американец на свою зарплату 4500$. Никто не учитывает разную стоимость жизни?
@@elfamint4429 Эти иностранцы немного (или много) туповатые. Не знаю почему, но у этого канала все подписчики выделяются низкой логикой и неспособностью к здравому анализу.
I'm appalled at how low the wages are! How do people live on so little money? Even the well paid are making very little compared to here in the US and we have had suppression of worker's wages for over 40 years!
Much lover prices, especially outside Moscow. Most people have their own apartment. Taxes is much lower. For example if you have 1000$ per month outside Moscow you are on top, while 1000$ in Moscow is a lower than middle.
Скажу как русский, у нас цены другие, начиная от еды, кончая коммунальными услугами. 1000 долларов в Америке примерно равно 300 долларам в России (я имею ввиду что можно купить на эти деньги ) . То что у вас зарплаты по 5000 тысяч долларов, но вы на счета, медицину и прочие тратите из них 3000 долларов это не делает вас богаче по отношению к нам.
@@СергейТурутин-ч6г Делает, потому что у американца после оплаты всех счетов-медицины и прочего остается 2000 долларов, а у россиянина после оплаты коммуналки-счетов и прочего 20 тысяч рублей.
You can easily live on $200 a month in Moscow (and even less in other cities), 'cause most Russians have their own apartments (fully owned), for which they don't have to pay anything other than utilities and internet (about $100 a month total). No HOA fees. Food is very cheap in Russia too. Also there's free healthcare for everyone and great public transportation, so you don't even need to have a car.
@@ajorfev ну смотря у какого и бывает что не 20 тысяч. а больше, и не у каждого американца 2000 долларов остается, и что можно купить на 2000 долларов в Америке и что можно купить на 20 000 рублей в России, вот в чем вопрос.
The income amount doesn't help us as foreigners to understand. We would need to know the cost of living and what remains after the cost of living. $130 wouldn't pay for half of my groceries (including food, cleaning supplies, hygiene items, etcetera) in a month, so I am not sure how they could be living on this small amount.
Cist of living is way high in Moscow. For example if you rent an apartment in Moscow you need to pay from 30 to 40 000 rubles .no need to conver5 it to dollar right now cuz the currency has fallen .and if you eat well then minimum 20 000 rubles per month .that's 60 000 rubles .and then there is bills and travel and other expenses
they don't live, they exist. Pensioners in villages usually grow everything they can so they wouldn't need to buy food, chop their own wood for heating and try to spend as little of that 150 a month for a bad day (because they're gonna need more than 150 for a bad day). They usually don't need to worry about housing since they got a shack transferred to them after the collapse of the SSRS
If you don't buy anything, you also live on 130 USD per month! It's simple. The Russians in the countryside grow their own food, then the children in Moscow and abroad support the pensioners.
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UPD, for comparison:
- Rural Russia, average rent: FREE, because barely anybody wants to live there, but in nearby cities it costs you $250 on average for a family apartments;
- Small cities (in this case Taganrog), average rent: $225 for apartments with 3 rooms, in the city center, but some cost up to $600.
- Moscow, average rent: around $700.
UPD 2: This is monthly salaries!
UPD 3: People gave us income in rubles, and we converted it into dollars at the rate of $1 = 90 rubles.
UPD 4: It's after taxes
He must be connected, cos there is no other explanation for why he is walking around freely. Others have been arrested for much much less.
Brutto? Netto?
I am in Wien. Pension 1350€ Netto , Brutto 1400€
Just becouse you are not arrested that proves us that there are freedom in Ruzzia
@@geoms6263 funny
Есть ошибка на 5:55,там женщина говорит, что стаж работы её мужа 47 лет, но в субтитрах написано только 7 лет.
Да это был только ошибка!
For months i have watched numerous vloggers' report on the Russian store prices and gasoline prices. They showed that the sanctions were not really affecting the average citizen. I always said that the prices did not show the real buying power of the Russian people if we do not know honestly what the people earn. This point was always ignored for some reason.
That's because most of those vloggers are in a big bubble and don't really know the real Russian reality (and most of the time they don't really admit it).
By the way, sanctions are 100% working on a macroenonomical level...
I may have misunderstood your comment. If that is so, I apologize, but...
The average rus (especially in rural areas, the far eastern/asian parts...compared to the capital areas) is NOT poor because of the sanctions or the brutal invasion of Ukraine (war & wartime economy...even more than usually funds directed at waging wars), they are poor because of corruption/corrupt leaders, and mismanaging of the countries funds. Which has been going on...forever. Under this tzar for over 20 years now.
The wages (eg teachers) & pensions are so low because the country spends the riches received from selling the countries natural resources on "elites" instead of people and communities (from the areas where a lot of the countries natural resources come from). It is not a new practice, it has been so...always.
Life for the average rural rus was hard before, and is hard now. But until they fully admit it to themselves, instead of choosing to remain in comfortable denial, they will keep living the same way. Until they keep delegating their thinking & decision making & acting to their leaders, they will keep living the same way. They do not seem to FULLY connect the dots between "life is hard" & "delegating their thinking to leaders, cause life is hard & it is much more comfortable to keep on the pink denial glasses & to delegate the hard parts to someone else than to deal with the harsh reality"
Yes, prices (housing, groceries etc) are mostly lower than in Europe, but so is the income. And income (for majority of rus...outside of the muscovy area) is way lower than in western EU & Americas. Yes, army & war are basically the only option of income in some areas (in harsh terms: they know where to take the meat to the meatgrinder: the people there feel out of options & desperate...add some propaganda to it & voila...) What most do not understand fully is that solving ones financial difficulties in such a way is not the way, but they tend to come to that realization after it is too late...
The sanctions & the war do affect many rus in some ways: closing of factories (many or all let go) due to deficit of western-made-parts, rising prices, fallen family members/friends...etc. But a lot of rus prefer to keep living in denial, so until they have a job, until they themselves are not drafted/mobilized....until it has affected them very personally and very directly, they prefer to keep their eyes shut (not think, not do research...just wait & hope for the best), even though they know that if they open their eyes they will see the reality for what they deep down know it is, not what they keep chanting to themselves to not feel so miserable. Their readiness to insist to themselves that the "happy illusion" instead of the "harsh, honest truth" is true, is...astounding to me.
I live in Russia, prices have risen, product quality has dropped significantly, many brands that supplied quality goods have left. These goods of departed brands are in stores, but they are imported through other countries and the price for them has increased, given the low standard of living of people, these goods have become inaccessible to them, the price of rubble equipment has risen in price. also increased by about 2 times over the past 1-2 years, the range has greatly decreased, mostly now these are Chinese non-names, or equipment brought through other countries, cars have become a luxury, the price has increased 2 times -2.5 times, which means sanctions are in effect , the ruble continues to fall and is already about 92 rubles per $ Most people earn about $ 300-400 But there are some people who have never seen good household appliances, they didn’t have a good car, they haven’t been abroad, this is the support of the regime, they will adapt to any sanctions, and propaganda from TV will tell them that the West is to blame for their poverty.
When you see the "ordinary Russian store" -- you usually see ordinary Russian buyers inside.
@@rhiannnann6041 You keep ranting about Russia everywhere, but you clearly didnt know about it, whats the point?
на самом деле подобные опросы мало что показывают в действительности, особенно если говорит о какой-то банальной статистике. У нас мышление у людей примерно такое "скажу что зарабатываю побольше, чтобы не думали, что я бедный" или "скажу что зарабатываю поменьше, чтобы там в центре знали, что нам здесь туго, мы бедствуем". Хотя конечно я практически уверен, что люди, живущие в регионах сказали свою реальную зп.
Somewhat shockingly low wages, especially for pensioners. A total shock since Russia claims to be so very wealthy that the standard of living generally is so low, even adjusted for lower domestic prices/cost of living.
I have always wondered how Putin lives so well on a salary of $150,000 per year but still can afford two superyachts worth $1 billion and $100 million a year to operate.
The wealth does not seem to be well distributed in Russia.
Putin is richest man in the world because all of Russian oligarchs don’t even own their fortune - they just hold Putin’s money.
putin controls the petro dollars, so half for him and cadre, the other half for the People. I think he robbed and jailed the Khodorkovsky guy that was the 1st wealthiest russian after fall of iron curtain, he now lives in europe. Putin just confiscated all of his empire and wealth, and trumped up corruption charges had him in jail for 10 years.
It's not "putin can afford", it's literally putin stole trillions of dollars and did whatever he can imagine with all Russia's money
You can easily live on $200 a month in Moscow (and even less in other cities), 'cause most Russians have their own apartments, for which they don't have to pay anything other than utilities and internet (about $100 a month total). Food is very cheap in Russia too. Also there's free healthcare for everyone and great public transportation, so you don't even need to have a car.
@@elena79rus что ты несёшь zомбич?) На 20к ты будешь выживать чисто.
LOL the Building Company manager was having a bit of fun i think
ужасный канал,подогревающий ненависть к России.
многие иностранцы,посмотрев это видео,думают,что стали шарить за жизнь в России.
если для их страны 1000$ мало, то в России вполне себе можно жить. у нас квартиры съёмные можно найти куда дешевле,чем в той же Америке.(а большенсто россиян имеют свои квартиры). продукты тоже гораздо дешевле. у нас в принципе похожая ситуация с Америкой,только у них цены на порядок выше, вот и зарплата соотвественно выше,но затраты в общем такие же или даже больше
You just can't accept the facts. 1100$ in Moscow is nothing because rent costs 500-600$ + you need food so thats 800-1000 combined. Iphone and computer parts cost the same everywhere and are actually cheaper in USA😉 1 m² in Moscow is 5000$, avg Moscowian that makes 1000$ will never be able to afford an apartment 😢
@@mile_381 I live in Moscow, and I know, what I say
@@vare_enik you're wrong about everything 🤣
@@mile_381 If you speak so confidently, I think you lived in Moscow and know how they live here?🙃
продукты примерно также стоят
here they consider 1 dollar = 92 rubles, but the exchange rate jumps all the time, 2 months ago the dollar was = 76 rubles and this carousel happens all the time, and you also need to take into account prices, for example, in a 3-room apartment I pay 3,500 rubles in summer, and 6,000 in winter, then same with products
Bull, on the products claim. Russians wear and use products from the world around, since Russia makes virtually nothing, as pointed out by this channel when that exact question was asked of people on the street in Moscow, and 80% literally owned NOTHING that was made in Russia.
You still pay a significant percentage of what we do in developed countries (in my case, the US) for most consumer goods because companies cannot sell at a loss, it is an unsustainable business model, every time. Tell me what cell phone you have and what you paid for it, or some other item, like Nike (or equivalent) shoes (assuming those really are Nikes, if not, you are probably buying junk, by comparison, because knock offs sell for far less for a reason).
Am I really supposed to believe that you pay 1/50th of what I do for those items, as that would be the exchange rate for my salary compared to the average here? I don't, in fact I KNOW that you don't. That would work out to about $45 dollars for a Samsung S22, currently, as one example. You cannot begin to purchase that phone, probably for five times that price. Russians tend to be so delusional about their actual world economic standing, because they are lied to about it, and most other things, all the time.
I laughed when one Russian was bragging that they paid 70 cents equivalent, for a gallon of gas. I looked up the average wage multiplication factor between the US and Russia, and at that moment we were paying what would be seven cents per gallon, to the average Russian income. You guys can't win at this, you can't even enter the same realm, we are light years apart, and about four decades apart in weapons tech.
@@MrJdsenior youre swinging your dick around like youre responsible for all the differences you described above. Obviously rural Russia is piss poor, but so is rural US
Люблю когда люди без оклада называют максимальный заработок, а не средний
Бесит когда люди говорят в среднем 250к в месяц, спрашиваешь в последнем месяце сколько получилось он такой 100
It is important to note for foreign viewers that usually Russians say their salary is after taxes (as they do here).
Even after tax their salaries are low. My salary is way higher than any of them and I'm just average in my country
@@starseed8087 it's about currency rate, in the beginning of they year it was 60 rubles =1$, then 76 rubles, then 80 rubles, then 90, then it will drop again
plus they're going to increase minimum wage up to 20% so.....
It's equally important for foreign viewers to note that a lot of Russians like exaggerating
@@kirillzotin1983 Honestly I don't think they exaggerate. I think they're pretty honest with themselves and admit that it's bad, you can see the pain in most of them.
@ well, I'm Russian and I exaggerate :-)
Underappreciation for teachers is certainly a global problem, that's for sure. It would be interesting to learn about the average cost of housing and utility services rural vs city
Not in the USA. They're unionized, and they all vote.
@@gaoxiaen1they're still underpaid and unappreciated, and many are not in a union.
May be they are not needed?
@@NancyFuqinDrew In California, average teacher salary is around 90 grand.
2 bedroom apartment in Kazan (average 'big' city) rent 200-300$ utility 50-100$ per month. In the rural area people don't rent houses, they live in their own. Utility costs 10-30$ per month. Most people in villages grow some food which helps a lot. Life in Moscow is much more expensive. 500-1000$ rent for a 2 bedroom apartment. Moscow is huge, so prices are different actually. Apartments in the city center are rented for many thousands of dollars per month.
Pensionier- 150, those who support Putin.
That's because Russia is taxing their people much less than everyone else in Europe. They could increase taxes for salaries and give this money to pensioners. But if you look at US. You must save the money yourself for retirement. If you don't do it you're fucked and end up on the streets.
Nuts
I wouldnt have muh 150 guvt bux without vlad
"I support Putin because of how he improved the economy."
Oh, shit!
Thats strange. They are the supporters of that nazi system
Domestic jobs : 300-500$
Outsource IT jobs: 1500+
🤡
2:38 "$650-1100. But I know how to make more"
....
*lol*. She should think herself lucky the interviewer only suggested "Drugs" in response. 😳😂
OnlyFans 😅 ahahha
@@_petter or simply prostitution ;D it's super popular over there
Yup, the so called oldest profession in the world instantly came to my mind. Another was crime, which in Russia is usually termed corruption, and is a widely practiced standard, apparently. Putin and the oligarchs have done REALLY well with that, to the tune of personal cruise lines, etc. Thumbed, best comment reading down the thread to this point.
Teachers and kindergarten teachers are some of the most important jobs there are, yet still they make lousy pay. Its a shame. Massive, massive love and respect to all people working in such jobs, all over the world.
If the Russians had come to live in the 21st century, rather than still yearning to return to the USSR days of the 1940s through 60s... as another highly educated Northern European people ---- but ones with more land, more gold, more oil, more gas, more diamond, more nukes, more rare earths, etc than 99.99% of other people on earth --- they could be living an extremely affluent society.
But since they prefer peace loving Mafia ruling over unruly but dynamic pluralistic societies, instead of living like the Fins, Swedes, and Norwegians, the Russians are living more like the "more affluent" 2nd and 3rd world people (like the Thais, Vietnamese, Iranians, Indians, Indonesians, Argentinians, Brazilians et al)...
But, again --- and unlike 2nd and 3rd world nations and people ---- the Russians are HIGHLY EDUCATED, with WORLD CLASS research universities, chess players, computer scientists, astrophysicists, mathematicians, medical doctors, engineers, researchers, etc.
There is just something way off with the Russians....
BTW, Russia's 11 time zone and bountiful land.... is almost 80% of the combined lands of the US and China, two of the 4 largest lands on earth... but there's only 145M Russians. The US has 335M people and China has 1.45B people.
So, no matter how you look at it, the Russians are blessed with SO MANY THINGS --- from high literacy like other northern Europeans to having literally boundless natural resources ---- & yet they managed to make themselves almost as poor as 2nd and 3rd nations and people....
and farmers who feed people…
@@kiabtoomlauj6249 bro wym, imagine it's me made myself poor🤣🤣
You are slightly mistaken in your opinion of these teachers. Many of them support the regime's propaganda, hammer it into the heads of children and when elections happen they falsify the ballots. I tell you this as the son of a teacher.
Come on! Teachers in Moscow and other big cities have a lot! Why taxpayers from big cities have to pay for big salaries of teachers in small regions? That's why such a big difference.
Мне очень обидно за людей. Но обиднее всего, когда люди в Москве зарабатывают 30к
Еще нелепо, когда школьники (сидящие на маминой шее, или в силу дошкольного возраста не знакомы с заработком) смело заявляют, что средняя ЗП в Москве = от 60-70к. Хочется верить, своя реальность, понимаю - но с этим далеко не уедешь. Сами не работают, но уверенно пукают.
Хотя, если говорить про программистов (джуны), так и есть. Но вот досада, далеко не все в Москве являются программистами. Если брать основную часть рабочих (кассиры, охранники, грузчики, фельдшеры и т.п) - то да, среднее значение в районе - 35-40к.
кто на кого выучился
А в других местах по-вашему нормально 30 тысяч получать? В Москве ещё не самая высокая стоимость жизни по стране
@@safranum5133 Верь дальше. Своя реальность, понимаю. Вата есть вата
@@safranum5133Зеленоград-это Москва
In the next video, you should ask them why they think their salaries are so low given that they have a huge amount of resources, and where they think the huge amounts of wealth have gone instead. I know the answers will be delusional, but I still wanna see it.
Bro the salaries are not low given how much they have to spend. $700 is an average income in entire Russia and one can live just fine in Russia for this amount
Unfortunately we could ask similar questions about how our billionaires in the West have all their wealth and why should wealth be focused on such a small number of people out of the whole population.
Appalachia had some of the greatest natural wealth in the USA and look at the poverty there now... Why?
@@dw620"had" .... That's the point.
The coal business is over and people no longer make money with that.
@@flopunkt3665 why is coal being so däemonised. The People's R. of China and Russia are wiser to continue using coal and even increasing the amounts of coal they mine and use because they wish energy.
@@stlouisix3
China is phasing out coal faster than the EU.
The manager guy at 3:45 talk disgusted me 😒
@kalliskivike And if the girl wanted it herself and was satisfied, then such a depraved girl turns out to disgust you too?
@@intelligentLeguy Its the fact that person publicly keep talking about it about someone is very demeaning. I don't care about what gender said that, it would still disgust me and it was topic about wage not bed partners. Talking about that in such way is nothing to be proud of.
@@kalliskivike хорошо, я понял
5:52 There's a mistake, not "7 years". She said "47 years"
This huge salary difference between the rural and urban sectors is a typical phenomenon in Eastern Europe.
Totally agree with this one. Don`t need to be urban even, smaller cities also compared to capitals or big cities.
While living in Latvia - its totally fucked up and statistics is fake about average salary. With minimum you can pay rent bills and literally you don`t have much for food/clothing anything else really. Electricity prices and other product inflation in like last year is like 50-100% without much salary changes. Pensions also suck. Better not to live till your retirement as you wont be able to survive, if married and the spouse also lives with you same flat to be able to survive. Starving pensioners are real here. One of most unprotected group of people along with disabled people and children.
Highly underpayed and corrupt relatives get tens of thousands in Latvia, if not more when doing nothing and their secretaries doing the work for misery pay. Latvia is fucked up and corrupt to core. I wish we would become colony of Finland or some developed country. Well, good that I am not born in Russia at least.
I am from the poorest country in the European Union (Bulgaria). Just some comparison info between the poorest country in the EU and Russia.
Minimum salary per month - 400$.
The average salary starts at 650$ in the poorest region of the country to 1200$ in the capital Sofia.
The minimum pension is $260. The average pension is around $350-400$
The minimum teacher salary is 800$. The average teacher's salary is 1000$-1100$
IT sector average salary is 2000$ +
Are the rural areas in Bulgaria safe for tourists?
The highest paying cities in Russia:
Moscow- 1610$
Moscow oblast-920$ (this is a lot of small other cities that are part of Moscow)
Saint-Petersburg- 1100$
Murmansk-1260$
Surgut-1053$
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky-1122$
Cities with the lowest salaries:
Penza-428$
Kirov-407$
@@TimelessLounge Yes. The Vampires are northern in Romania.
This comparison avoids the obvious questions. For example: how much of this "minimal salary" Average bulgarian must spend just to survive???
It shows us something about the difference city village, and also that there are too big differences between the different occupations. It's not uncommon in the former Eastern Bloc countries. It's ironic that in the former communist countries, the class divide is actually bigger than in the capitalist West. Oligarchs are laughing all the way to the bank.
for some of the eastern bloc... but Czechia or Slovenia or Slovakia are exceptions where the state assets were fairly equally divided to the people in 1990. and not just stolen by western business men or criminal oligarchs. They are still some of the most equal wealth countries in teh world.
I agree. I noticed the same things.
@@konskift I know. Those countries are historically and culturally more "West" than "Russian" anyway. The top-heavy Russian Czar/communist comitees with all their slaves is a Russian thing.. should never have come to Europe.
Not sure. If you live from social welfare in Germany its also only food and shelter. And shelter/housing is the way for the rich house owners to keep the rents open.
It was never 'socialist' or 'communist'. Those were pipedreams that Stalin already had figured out. It was all rhetoric to keep people think they were doin a good thing. An extension, as you may, of Goebbels thinking. Putin is trying this exact same thing to justify his attack on Ukraine.
I have yet to find a comment discussing how the guy at 03:55 openly admitted to gang banging a co-worker at his office. Like what the fuck?
Do you think such things are rare?
russians are no prudes. they have a common decency but they are no prudes... :)
@@ChuyewI think it’s fucked up to brag about that to someone who you met on the street asking what you do.
My jaw just dropped because of how casually and shamlessly he says it
@@Chuyew Yes! Are you saying gangbangs are normal in Russian offices?
Farmers and teachers are getting a very bad deal considering how important they are to a society.
Not all teachers anf farmers get that low salaries. I know a few(i don't know many teachers) teachers that make 2k USD+. There also are a lot of successful farmers, especially in southern regions. Also keep in mind that prices in russia are 3-4 times lower than, for example, in US
Its not about how important you are, basically to be farmer you just need two hands, thats why.
3:50 Sorry? Is he saying he raped a woman? Can someone please tell me this is not true. I don't even know what to say.
Why I think that: I highly doubt that if his story is true a woman just suddenly wanted to have sex with several colleagues or strangers at the same time. Also his chosen words sound like he used an object, not have consent sexual intercourse.
I feel sick now.
Yeah, I’m not impressed. Glad I’m not the only one who commented.
Clam down
@@Mrs.LadeyBugclam down
I had to go back because I thought he said chicken 😂
That's Russia for you
...everybody is jelaous on russia because its such a rich country. And all the amazing ressources they have😂 I want to invade russia 😂😂😂 really I want some of theire ressources but Vladimir Vladimirovitsh is such a great leader its not possible.
Oh yes those filthy ressources, they have so plenty we want them so much, if it wasnt for their great leader and its protective aura i would already be mining some precious cobalt in the middle of a russian sprout field while getting pregnant all the babushkas and ballet dancers of the hood.
That's a lot of income inequality for Moscow and the countryside
Even just in Moscow.. How do the people taking less than $1000 live there? The prices are insane.
moscow is shit tho, its to expensive
So called great Russia lol 😂 they are all poor propaganda lies and say how great they are doing and live in lie dystopian society 😂 gulag society
they live with parents til they die
@@mile_381 it is not Italy, no.
Me watching this as someone in London, UK who turned to freelancing after being made redundant during the pandemic and struggled for a while. And I only just felt like this year I was finally getting stable because I had only just managed to attract enough clients to break through the £3,000 a month mark (about $3,850), which was what I needed to get me back on track with savings etc. 😳 I understand that the cost of living in most of Russia is much less than in London, but damn. No wonder most Russians never go abroad. Hardly anyone can afford it.
what do you do as a freelancer?
@@xenialove2032 Mostly copyediting of online content. A little bit of writing on the side.
I am from Russia and curious, how do you spend that money. like what are your expenses, how much are you able to save each month. Because in Moscow you can live an ok life with 750 dollars a month, like you will have enough to pay for your rent/mortgage, buy products, eat out from time to time, have some fun with friends and keep some change for the future expenses (clothing and some other stuff that you don’t do each month).
@@aynes8099 My mortgage payment is just under £1,000 per month - and that's relatively low for London. People who rent similar properties generally have to pay a lot more. Hopefully that gives you some idea how high the cost of living is here.
@@aynes8099 I just checked the local housing rental sites and the typical monthly rent for similar properties to the one I live in is £1,500-£2,000. London is a really expensive place.
I traveled to and lived in a poor country. The thing that struck me wasn't just the wide variety of wages, but it was that almost everyone was making near the bottom. So in that country, it was like $220 per month, and maybe 90% of the people made that, teachers, nurses, store workers, fast food.. there was almost no range for anyone, maybe 220-350. Then there were people who worked for foreign companies that made like $1200-$1500 a month. In the USA, of course we have minimum wage which is probably like $1500 per month, but very few make that... and people like new nurses or teachers are at like $4000 per month. In that country, college educations were almost free, but there was very little earnings increase if you had a degree.
Not many in the US make minimum wage because they would starve if they did! Almost 2 million people work for the federal minimum wage which hasn't been raised in close to 20 years. If minimum wages had kept up with inflation since the 60's, the minimum wage in the US would be around $24/hour which is almost $4000/month.
This is the case even in expensive and rich European countries. A poorly paid job (e.g. McDonald's cashier) in Austria brings about 1500, a very well paid job (doctor, IT expert) about 3000 euros net per month. Almost nobody earns more than that. But you can also live quite well on 1500, or even less. I make about 1000 a month because I don't feel like working more than 2 days a week and I can afford the rent in a beautiful 19th century building with a big garden, 10 minutes walk next to a UNESCO world heritage old town, and I travel abroad about 2-3 months a year just for fun. I've also done two Master's degrees purely out of interest, a 2-year Master's - no matter what subject - costs less than 100 euros including everything (books, fees, insurance, etc.). Maybe I'll do a third one. I'll always be poor, but I have zero stress in life and can see the world. I think if you want to earn a lot of money, the USA is the best place to be.
@@oleeb I agree completely. I am not really talking about it in relation to the USA.. but in most poor countries, it would be like if 80% of the people in the USA made under $10/hr, including teachers, nurses etc. There is only a sliver of the population there who even thinks about buying property or a car, almost everyone just tries to get buy with basic food, clothes and keeping the lights on... but it is everyone, even people with college educations and 'good' jobs. I dated a woman who had been an architect for 15 years, absolutely no hope of buying a house or a new car..no vacations...
4000$ per month... but before paying eveything that is paid by the taxes in Europe.
@@durandil What exactly are the things that are paid by the taxes in Europe different from the US? Except healthcare which majority of Americans have through the employer?
жалко, что прикладные профессии получают в разы меньше чем маркетологи аналитики и тому подобные
Откуда кремлеботы берут информацию о том, что 80% россиян имеют собственное жилье? Да, у меня есть своя квартира и я ее купил, мне ее не подарило государство. У большинства моих знакомых нет такой возможности, они снимают квартиру, платят ипотеку или просто живут с родителями в свои 20-25-35, никому на 18 лет государство не предоставило отдельную собственную квартиру. Около 25% людей в возрасте 25-35 лет в России живут с родителями, примерно такие же цифры в США, в Германии и Северной Европе значительно меньше. В России если ты хочешь начать самостоятельную жизнь или завести семью, ты точно также вынужден арендовать квартиру или брать ипотеку, государство не подарит тебе ее.
Есть такая проблема в развитых странах там перспективно и модно покупать недвижимость иностранцами, что очень плохо сказывается на ценах для местного населения. Например в Австралии очень остро такая проблема стоит, там даже вводят квоты для жилья которое могут купить иностранцы. Поэтому цены на жилье там чрезвычайно завышены. В России богатые иностранцы не инвестируют в недвижимость, может быть только Москва и Санкт-Петербург и то очень ограничено. Поэтому стоимость жилья в России более доступна для жителей.
@@alex-0 В развитых странах такая проблема есть только в туристических регионах, где из-за туристов и инвесторов цены на жилье становятся неподъемными для местного населения. Если мы говорим в целом про Германию, Великобританию, Францию, США и тем более Скандинавию, то есть большую часть капиталистического мира, то жилье там более доступно для среднего жителя. В этих странах значительно ниже процент людей, продолжающих жить с родителями в возрасте 25+, и это легко объяснить. В России сумасшедшая гиперцентрализация, большая часть молодого активного населения сосредоточена в Москве, Петербурге, Краснодаре и еще паре мегаполисов. Да вы можете быть везунчиком и жить в Воркуте, где квартиры продаются за $300, но с большой вероятностью, если вы россиянин, то вы живете в крупном городе или даже Москве, где цены на жилье просто неподъемные относительно местных зарплат. Конечно есть страны, где среднестатистическому жителю арендовать/купить жилье намного сложнее, чем среднестатистическому россиянину, но среднестатистическому молодому американцу и западноевропейцу однозначно легче арендовать или купить жилье.
Greetings from finland. Pls stop the war.
we would be happy but we are a minority who does not support the government
@@УважаемыйИван-с9ч why they want to go to war? their motherland is not as risk as nobody gives a damn about russian territory.
Finland deserves a better Capital than you give Her.
:)
@@УважаемыйИван-с9ч It is hard for you, that is sure. But you have to be brave, and go out and set fire to the electrical substation in your city. Try not to get caught of course, but do it even if you will get caught.
@@uncletiggermclaren7592 firstly, this will not change the situation because people like me are a minority, and secondly, I do not want to go to jail. I decided that I will not help any of the parties in this conflict - this is not my war, but the war of those who make decisions and who started it - they will be responsible for their actions
Russian people do not seem to understand that the whole world hold them responsible for what takes place Ukraine. Of course you cannot escape your responsibility of your governments actions. Then you should have protested long time ago, today no one like Russian people
Ukrainian top tenis player on Russian rival: Well, we are not friends, we are at war
After Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the support of Belarus, relations between several of the top female players are very cold. For example, the classic 'thank you for the match' is over.
I am a 62 year old from Canada, took early retirement at age 55, and my pension right now is $3,655 per month. It will increase at age 65. We have custody of two of our grandchildren, so also receive additional $450/month child benefits. Things in Canada are certainly more expensive than in Russia, but the disparity is amazing. All my "living expenses" (taxes, utilities, car, house insurance, food, etc come to less than $2,000/month so i basically have over $2,000/month in "disposable" income. I was very lucky to have been born were i was and not in Russia.
That's certainly true for someone of your generation, but unlike people of my generation, every individual around my age I know in Russia and Belarus own their own homes. My friend in Minsk's total for her monthly utility bills and taxes is less than $100. And my mother gets around $1,500 per month between OAS, GIS, and CPP so you must have been a teacher, nurse, constable, or some other atypically high paying job most Canadians have no chance of getting.
You were lucky to be born 62 years ago in Canada, not right now when the prices for hosting quadrupled for the last two decades in such areas as Vancouver or Toronto. 😅
Just turned 60.
I am in no way ready for retirement.
Have soooo much to do and see, I know that the pension will never be enough to do what I want to do and see what I want to see.
The company I work for has no retirement age but they are very flexible as they appreciate a good employee.
So I will reduce the number of days I work.
But keep the money rolling in.
I have unlimited overtime but that has come from the loyalty and quality of work.
It helps that the quality of new employees is just not .
How can I say?
Not.
Not prepared to try.
Not imaginative.
Not willing.
As useless as tits on a bull.
If I could find someone that could do my job. I could take a holiday and I would be so happy. $50. Au per hour, time and a half first the 3 hours double time for every hour after that.
Service technician, fix machinery. Not a rocket scientist.
Need to be focused, have some fun, take your time and relaxed.
@@jordanjohnandersonпривет из Минска. Коммуналка до 100 долларов? Это смотря где. Вот серьезно. Квартиру найти за 500 рублец (при средней зарплате в 700) - это титанический труд.
@@KrokoDildos Я забыл точную цифру, но это определенно было меньше 100 долларов. Кроме того, я имею в виду только оплату за воду, электричество и т.д. Я уверен, что она платит по ипотеке, и я не знаю, какую сумму она заплатила за покупку. Я просто хотел подчеркнуть, что иметь дом в Минске более достижимо, чем даже в моем маленьком городке в Канаде. Средняя арендная плата здесь составляет около 2000 долларов в месяц. Электричество, вода и т.д. - все это дополнительные расходы.
3:50 я, конечно, дико извиняюсь, но что за хрень высрал этот чел 😨
The girl at 2:33 said from 100 000 rubles to 160 000 rubles, which means from 1100 to 1800 $ as per the temporary low rate of Ruble now, but the author of the video decided it is only 650 to 1100 $.
Life is not fair! I work as an financial analyst full time like some people in this video plus some side business 7 hours a week and make $7300 a month in total at 26 y.o. before taxes. They make a fraction of that not because they work any less harder than me, but because they were born in Russia and not Norway or any other first world country for that matter.
And how much after all the taxes?
@@tet_rider3117 $5500, about 35% tax on that amount. Got university for free and free healthcare, so I put over $3000 in savings every month as I have no student debt.
"Life is not fair". Seriously, you just figured that out? And it has nothing to do with fairness, in this case, it has to do with a sheeple population that will let their govt walk all over them, and profess their love for it to their dying days, most of them.
There is such a thing as karma and consequences, it's not like they HAVE to have it this way. In my lifetime, Gorbachev ended the USSR, thank god, for them too, although they are headed back that way now, and what do they do? They make sure that they head right back into poverty and slavery. You can see it in many of the people in these videos "We should go back to the USSR, where there wasn't SEX". What a fruitcake.
Go read up on the USSR if you are interested and don't know. What there was, in actuality, were people running for the Berlin wall, or tunneling underneath it, many of them, which was built to keep the Soviet people IN, getting shot to death most of the time in the attempt. Yeah, sounds just like a utopia, doesn't it? No kidding, two people, in two different instances, jumped off of Soviet ships in the middle of the ocean, one swimming to a Coast Guard ship, and on MILES to (IIRC) the Philippines. You can look these up to verify.
When their traveling troops, like the Bolshei (Moscow, I think) Ballet or athletes at the Olympics, etc. came to free countries, they were ALL watched at every second (literally, not figuratively) so that they would not defect, and even with all that, just from the ballet company, at least two did, Nureyev and Barishnikov. There is a somewhat silly Robin Williams movie based on that subject.
One former KGB agent defected to the US, voluntarily gave up TONS of intel, and refused to remain in the US because he knew that there were KGB operatives in the CIA (the CIA did too, at that point, at least, maybe before, and would feed them useless or false information, or turn them as double agents) who would come after him, and kill him, as the USSR and Russians have done the entire six and a half decades I've been alive. Two, not that long ago, were targeted in foreign countries, one with a radioactive pellet, and one with poison, both confirmed. One, who exposed the real workings of the Russian govt, Nevalny, went back, for some reason that escapes me, and was recently imprisoned. He is being treated VERY badly, beaten regularly. There have been many, many more.
Don't you just love a country that has people constantly risking their lives to get away, and tells you how they are the best country on Earth? Many countries, actually almost all of them that build border walls, do it to keep others OUT, as the US and Finland are doing right now, to name just two. MANY people risk capture and detainment to illegally enter my country, the US, and we, as citizens, spend half our lives bitching about one aspect or 100 others of our nation, which compared to Russia, IS a utopia. We can go hold up signs with actual writing condemning anything we want, without fearing any reprisals. Hold up a BLANK sign in Russia and see what happens to you, you end up in a labor camp for 15 years. In China you get 'reeducated', and if you don't reeducate, you get disappeared, and virtually all the protesters that were protesting the COVID policies did, per their families, who can contact virtually none of them, and have no idea where they are or what has happened to them. I can tell you though, they are being reeducated or sent to labor camps, or ended and buried. THAT is Chinese SOP, when you do ANYTHING remotely contradicting the govt, even in private, if they find out about it.
@@Olav3Dhow much do you pay for the accommodation? Do you rent or do you have your own house? Thanks
@@przemysawkurycki6435 Renting, sharing with my gf, so I only pay $700 per month here in Oslo. Planning to buy next year as we have the down payment ready.
Are these the same people that say west wants to invade them, cause they are rich country?
Rich in oil and natural resources. That's what people usually mean
@@Randomperson-rk7xl so if thats so important why these people arent rich? Like in Saudi or Dubai where government pay event money to born citizens.
Yes, ruzzia is such a rich country. Must be because of their resources.
If nobody wants to buy it, it's not much worth....
Russia is the largest gas exporter and 3rd largest oil exporter. Where has all the money gone? Switzerland?
that's why we want to steal their resources
@@thePronto into the pocket of some oligarchs and Putin gets his percentage of every deal like every honorable mafia boss ofc ☝
That’s because it’s dumb to show their wages in US dollar. The purchase parity power is not the same in Russia.
Sometimes I do student jobs during the summer here in Switzerland and I make about $2600 a month with that, and I barely have any experience with anything. Obviously prices here are very different from Russia, but a quick search shows that the purchasing power here is still higher than in Russia. It's sad to see the huge gap that separates the cities from the countryside in this country.
Switzerland is like another planet , man. Here in Italy, a teacher makes around 1500 after taxes, cost of the rent 700 euros for monolocale.
Well, if you have your own house in Switzerland, one or 2 cars, you can afford to travel to different countries more than once a year, then yes, your standard of living is better than people in Russia who earn less than 650$
Switzerland is very rare exception like Luxemburg or Liechtenstein. McDonalds there pays more than median salary in most EU countries let alone rest of the world.
@RussiaTerroristState Yeah, I counted my personal salary, working 5h a day on a $20/h rate
@@Michelle_641 лол, хрущевка, 2 гнилых чепырки и турция на лето - вот тебе твои стандарты
тут надо сравнивать покупательскую способность, а она у нас сейчас на уровне африки, учитывая цены на машины, квартиры, и даже банально технику
Thanks for the efforts you put in this video
Russia is just another planet
😂😂
north korea light
3:45 what the f 😂 🤥🥸🦧🇷🇺🤦♀️
corporate
LOL, if I moved to Russia with $ 150k I would be considered an oligarch
But you'd have to live in Russia//
You would not.
1 bad apartment or 1 car in moscow😂
For 150k$ in Moscow you can't buy studio apartment
Oligarch net worths start at 100 million USD.
Теперь я чувствую себя бедным
The harder the job the lower the income. This is an international reality.
The smarter you have to be for the job, the higher the salary. The dumber jobs pay less, like farmer, teacher (in russia teachers are practically regarded as babysitters, they don't teach anything as you can see the results: the whole country believed the wildly stupid lies and now they are in the middle of a war), etc.
Курс рубля к доллару не очень актуальный, сейчас все примерно на 10% хуже
There is such a big diference between Moscow and the rest of Russia. I live in Romania. Prices are almost the same with russia or even lower. I am sales field agent and I earn minimum net wage in Romania witch is 470 dollars + commisions. Somethimes i took more than 1500 dollars per month and i work 3-4 hours a day, 5 days per week. I have a brother who works in the IT industry. He take somethimes more than 5000 dollars per month. There is not much diference between Romania and Russia but here people from the country side earn the same with the people from cities. But there is diference and thats not ok.
Am I right in thinking that the person who uses electricity to permanently remove hair gets paid way to much?
Yes
I guess she is pizdit
A lot of work for that in Russia. You seen those Russian broads? Supply and demand.
And this people claim they live in a great country...... You are so sad, keep glory to Putin!
As usual, those that do important work are underpaid. The teachers, the farmers, the postwoman etc. That teacher's assistant was painfully thin.
And then there are the IT people, even someone working in bitcoin... Gods our world is utterly stupid.
actually she is underpaid if she does it right, RU is under sanctions and btc>xrm/xhv>usdt>usd/euro is a good way to avoid all
Painfully thin ? Are you implying that she's so poor that she can't afford food and therefore starving? That's probably one of the stupidest things I've heard lately. Poor people are on the contrary usually overweight because they can only afford cheap junk food, mostly carbs. This girl is just naturally thin or working out and watches what she eats.
IT people has a lot of job now - western software comapanies are leaving, IT speacialists are leaving and there is a huge number of project to mobe economy and business on a local software
3:57 mmm...ok?
Minimalnaja zarplata v Litve osenju byla 730€, teper uzhe 840€. Rost 110€. Posle novovo goda podnimajut do 924€. To jest rost tolko za dva goda pochti 200 €. V Rosiji osenju minimalka byla 230€, zimoj 200€, teper uzhe tolko 150€. Skolko budet posle novovo goda? 100€? 120€? U nas tolko odin rost bolshe chem u vas VSIA minimalka. Raznica v 5 raz (840€/150€).
Pochemu takaja nischeta? Vychodyli iz SSSR 32 goda nazad vse vmeste, imeli odinakovyje startovyje vozmozhnosti. V Litve netu gaza, nefti i drugich poleznych iskopajemych, u Rosiji jest vsio. Pochemu takaja nischeta, vse dengi na vojny i propagandu? Rosija tianet v takuju zhe nischetu i beznadiogu i okupirovanuju Belarus.
why not type in Cyrillic alphabet? Can they even read what you wrote 😂
@@mile_381 for me I can read it better in Latin as in Cyrillic as a Slovakian
You must compare salaries to cost of living prices. It would be impossible to live in England on the salaries those people state ..
purchasing power parity
It's not easy as there's no standard "cost of living" in Russia, just like comparing San Franscisco with run-down areas of Chicago for accommodation costs. Ditto for land prices, compare with NY vs. NV.
Food prices are a bit more "level" throughout, and that's not particularly cheap either - barely less than in the UK for supermarkets and rather lower for restaurants.
Needless to say, people in rural Russia often rely on locally grown food and self/locally-built houses...
I've done the calculations. Purchasing power of Russia still much lower than UK / US / Europe. One of the few exceptions being housing. Also Moscow has higher salaries than rest of Russia
Multiply by 4 or 6, you will get an idea. If someone makes £1000 per month in Moscow or St.Petersburgh, it is equivalent to £4000 in London. If you are earning a $1000 salary in other Russian cities, you are making an equivalent of £6000 of English money in UK. The cost of living is much much lower in Russia. Majority of Russians make around £600 per month, which translates to £3600 in English money, somewhere near Cardiff (before taxes)
The most noticeable thing when you live there is that local goods and services are fairly priced, and all import goods are insanely expensive. But rural Russia and urban Russia are two different planets.
The guy working in the office, saying his job is boring but they all ran a train in the kitchen was hilarious 😅
Yep. And he had also one of the highest salaries. Some people are never satisfied lol 😂
Great job bonus
I just wonder how often he tells that story, seemed like anyone who knows him already heard it, love it.
Very strange how the salary between labour jobs can be $130-$2000. In my country everyone gets paid pretty much the same in each category.
The difference is huge distances from the capital. For example, as a resident of the Far East, I am a teacher IT, I earn about $400 a month at a state university, although in Moscow there may be more earnings
@@Kurbant How do you even survive when Russia isn’t cheap to live in?
@@danielwells774 Moscow cheap to live in, in regions i can live with 400-500$ per month without pressure.
@@danielwells774Some things in Russia costs pretty cheap, examples are: internet, phone calls, maybe gas and oil, that's all, most things like clothes, Smartphones and even food in Russia it's already pretty expensive, things like computer parts(cpu, gpu, motherboards and etc), cars it's VERY expensive here in Russia, Russia may be cheap for foreigners from more developed and wealthiest countries like US, Germany, UK, Australia, Sweden where people ofc living way better than most russian cities, but it's not cheap for russians outside Moscow and Saint Pt. Moscow and Saint Petersburg is only two cities in Russia where people living with really decent incomes, other russian simple cities are pretty poor with average salaries 25-30000 russian rubles(count how much it in dollars), so what do we have that only two russian cities living good, but most other living pretty bad and poor unfortunately.
Россия слишком огромная страна, братан. Есть бесконечно богатые люди, а есть люди, которые видели, допустим море, только по телевизору и вряд-ли когда либо увидят его в живую. В принципе, как и во всех больших странах очень сильное расслоение общества в материальном плане
My kids summer job at MC Donald’s pays $17. Hour The Russians salaries are 3rd world.
Surprisingly low. In the UK, the average before tax is around $3,000, but that’s nowhere near enough to live a comfortable life.
A three-bedroom granite-built apartment with huge attic space is under $100,000 (equivalent) here up North and a shed costs more in London. "It depends where you live", always... : )
Prices have to go up when people start getting comfortable otherwise they wouldn't work as hard, which is needed by the government!
@@dw620That’s £80k. Very, very, few places in the UK (that anyone would want to live) can provide acceptable living space for that sort of money.
@@PDCRed Well, we'll keep this location a secret, then, and continue to benefit from cheaper housing and decent quality environment away from the rat-race!
15 miles of beach to the North, castles, scenic cliffs to the South, rolling quiet countryside and huge country parks inland, etc.
And closer to £70k, actually... ; )
I'm born and raised in London, from my experience you need 1k a week to live fairly comfortable. I'm get it luckily working in construction atm. But my rent is £1400 a month for a 1 bedroom apartment. And I have alot of bills on top of that such as council tax, electricity, gas, water, road tax, car insurance. Plus by the time you add shopping and petrol costs I'm left with less than 1k to live on for the whole month.
Earning 1k a week sounds like a lot but in London the money goes so quick.
In the UK I was able to find a puddle to sleep in for under four hundred quid. Landlord wanted £2500 but I told him I could pay the deposit. Then a hawk swooped him up.
Многие молодые люди (да и не только) даже не пытались как - то убедительно врать. Прям видно что задумываются на секунду - хотят назвать большую сумму, но так, чтобы не зазнаваться.
I’m wondering how much it cost for food and basics , rent power , phone gas elec. How much do you need to live comfortably I wonder. ???
Hugely depends on so many factors, you can comfortably live for even $400 in Russia
@@marchvertochko0056 Comfortably by Russian standards
@@deyanpetrov4447nah, you can live anywhere outside big cities and be feeling just fine with that money
It all eventually comes into equiblirium. If people can't buy foreign stuff they'll sell stuff which causes increase of value for their currency (now that they dumped the dollar). So Ruble now is totaly market driven.
@@marchvertochko0056and you will have horrible crime situation, medicine and education.
It would help if there was a comparison between the cost of living and the salaries. Hard to tell if the salary is good or bad you don't know the cost of living for a certain area
iPhone 14 pro max costs $1400 in Moscow. Brand new Lada Granta with the cheapest trim level costs over $7500. One can rent a decent single bedroom apartment for $500/month in Moscow. Food prices are more or less same around the world.
@multiplayer - Noooooo, not even close with regard to food prices. For instance, in some parts of Mexico you pay as little as 1/6 of what you would pay in the USA for non-imported food products. I have seen tomatoes going for a third or a quarter of what they cost in the USA, and with restaurants, the disparity can be even higher because of a lower cost of labor.
@@jonahscher-zagier8196 I am from Uzbekistan, I have traveled most of the ex-USSR, and been to some other Asian countries. And everywhere I have managed to find cheap street food: I would have a hearty meal for $3 or less; and cheap groceries (except some fruits, in northern countries they were more pricey). Locals in Belarus have told me that groceries are supposedly cheaper in neighboring Poland. Never been to the Americas though, maybe food in Mexico is even less costly. But my original point stands, an average Westerner can buy a new phone without taking a loan, and can save up for a decent car in a year or less. Whereas in ex-Soviet countries most of the population has to save money to buy a new pair of shoes.
@@multiplayerlove It is possible that price variation is low across ex-Soviet countries and parts of central Asia. That still does not change the fact that food prices are not at all the same across the world overall.
For instance, good luck finding a hearty meal for $3 in Manhattan. You might get one hot dog! By contrast, in Mexico City, with some luck, you might find a street food booth that would give you two dozen tacos for that!
And indeed, why would people expect food prices to be invariant across the world? Locally grown plants will have prices dependent on the local price of labor to grow them. Restaurants and food stands have to cover the cost of living of their employees.
minimum living wage marked by government for 2023 is around 165-200 USD, minimum salary is 180 USD. Basically with this kind of money even in the poorest region is just to survive with the cheapest food and clothes, to buy anything more is available only with a credit. lots of people from the video get even less then minimum
After watching this I see why corruption is such a big issue in Russia.
it's not about corruption
As a Russian, I can say that it's not about corruption only. People there don't tend to claim for more. I mean, I was changing my positions every 1-2 years to grow. There are a lot of people who make crazy amounts of money and absolutely legal. However, these people can easily stay for 20-30 years in one place with a modest income. The same situation is in political will. After 70 years of a totalitarian regime, they still tend to obey more and demand less. In the Soviet Union, the incomes were quite equal, so there wasn't a point in looking for something bigger. In the 90-s all the powers were tearing apart the Soviet heritage. Those who succeded became the rich, who didn't - the poor. Now the most successful gangs became the government, and everything is more settled, but people are still afraid of changing their lives.
How?
I assume you mean people are so poor they must be corrupt.
But real corruption is the lot of the wealthiest. And that is CERTAINLY ot just a Russian problem.
@@lllordllloyd I guess that I can't disagree. This was actually mentioned when the US Congress wanted to raise their own pay. They wanted more money to reduce temptation.
I am a student (4th year) in russia (village). I started working not long ago. I am ios dev in IT company. I get 1800$ a month. I dont pay for rent or any medicine, i also get money every day to spend on food (company provides). I have latest Apple devices (mac, ipad, iphone, airpods). My parents are middle class, they dont get much and have some debts that i ofc will help them to cover later. But they live a very good life that most people in richest countries dont have.
When i was younger i always thought that i was unlucky to be born in russia, we are poor and sad, but now talking with my friends from france, us and canada and reading the news i must say i am lucky enough.
I may earn way less than them but i can afford a lot more for my money and yes i travel a lot too. Im not a gov supporter but russia is amazing country and has amazing people 🙂
You love everything western but still support russia :D why russia didnt invent a smartphone like apple?
@@rallyycar6750 i love a lot of western stuff but i also love my country. I dont have to choose the sides here. I dont dislike US or people there. However, I grown up with certain values so i do not support and understand certain things people believe elsewhere, that is normal tho.
Its actually, not about country, but what your relative income is. You are IT, they are overpayed as fuck, and your parents were middle class which itself puts you into more of an upperclass. Middle class is around 14% according to data I found. So imagine, you like like what almost top 20% of country. In every country like that you would be doing great and you chose good profession also so :)
@@tupums in russian middle class is not what u imagine, a lot of people call themselves middle class but do not earn a lot by western standarts
I feel sorry for the chicken……..
I am Russian, and I have lived both in a megalopolis (Moscow, Saint Petersburg), a large (Nizhny Novgorod, Kazan), and in the middle (Cheboksary) cities in Russia, and the salaries mentioned in the video correspond to reality. In addition, pensions for the majority of the population are really very low.
Only there is something that is not taken into account: the cost of living and services. It is much cheaper to live in Russia than in almost all European countries and North America. For example: the cost of a one-time trip to the metro in Moscow or Saint Petersburg - ~€0.6, in London, say, £5.
In Russia, a very cheap taxi: in the capital, depending on the time, you can get from one end of the city to the other for €5-€10, what's in Western Europe or major US cities I think it will be hard to imagine. A liter of gasoline costs €0,45-€0,5. An ordinary apartment in the capital can be rented for €300-€400 (~€30,000-€40,000), and in the second city of the country for €220-300 (~₽22,000-₽30,000), utilities for her per month will be in the area €20-€60 (~₽2000-₽6000) depending on the time of year and the area of the apartment. We have a very cheap and at the same time fast Internet. We usually pay monthly €3,5-€5,5. In a decent restaurant, you can dine for €10. And food in supermarkets is often 2-3 times cheaper than in Walmart or Lidl. You can often go to museums, cinemas for €1.5-€2.5, get a haircut for €3 and so on.
From my life experience, I can say that the minimum wage for which a person can live month in Russia is €150 (₽15,000).
And then it all depends on the level of your needs. Someone with an income of €300 feels good, and someone with €2000 is not enough.
Of course, a lot depends on whether you have your own home and family.
P.S. quite by chance on the video I found my school familiar, with whom I took the history exam together in 2016. How cramped the world is.
He's at 0:13. Hi, Alex Morozov.
Наконец-то нашёлся человек, который это учитывает
Если у тебя есть собственная квартира и ты живёшь в регионе, то да, "выжить" на 15к можно, но с этими условиями , вряд-ли ты сохранишь своё здоровье)
А если квартиры нет, и ты вынужден её снимать, то тогда 80% от 15к уйдёт на самую дешёвую квартиру, где ты будешь спать с тараканами на голове, а на остальные 3к попробуй проживи )
И это я только про регионы говорю)
Привет! Я не русский, но немного интересуюсь вашей страной. то, что вы говорите, правильно. На самом деле важно не то, сколько вы зарабатываете, а то, каковы цены. хоть ты и мало зарабатываешь, но на зарплату до 25 000 рублей можно прожить даже со съемной квартирой. на западе нельзя с эквивалентом этой зарплаты. С уважением
так согласен, что средняя зарплата 30-40 тысяч рублей?
@@glapinskionelmstreet3880 от региона зависит, но да, ближе к реальным цифрам.
В Москве все богатые и молодые а в деревне старые и бедные. Предлагаю всем россиянам бросить работу в деревнях, переехать в Москву, заниматься танцами и выжиганием волос чтобы всем стать молодыми, богатыми и счастливыми.
5:56 - "стаж работы 47 лет"
субтитры - "он работает 7 лет"
They make A LOT more money than people in Poland...
this was in moscow or st pet
Get a job in Norway or Denmark and you will make much more
@@Olav3D
How much money do you need monthly to live in Norway or Denmark? In Russia it's only about $200 a month (all expenses included).
Nice, 350 for a farmer who works all day to feed the people meanwhile Putins daughter has billions. The daughter of the defense minister bought a 18 million dollar house the Russian people should get rid of those leeches and their families Zar style as soon as possible. Maybe Putin really should get his special gaddafi treatment.
Позор нашей Почте и пенсиям.
Да мы сами в шоке от разницы зп. Разница между моей начальной в родном городе и в Москве сейчас отличается где-то в 4 раза. А первоначальная ставка 10 лет назад...я даже не хочу вспоминать, это бомжевание, если бы не помощь мамы.
Salaries are same as India
But india looks so poor compared to russia
I make same money laying in bed, average in few hours, basically doing nothing that retired people get a month in RU. I sell things online.
Moscow people seem to make about the same as the smaller cities in poorer countries of EU, like Romania, maybe slightly less(I’ve heard public transport drivers talk between themselves and mentioning that they make ~900 euros while Software Engineers, ~1600 freshly hired student to 5000-6000 tech lead).
Not only Moscow, but also a village with Taganrog participated in this survey. Taganrog is a poor city in Russia.
There is one difference. In Russia, there are jobs in large cities, but there are none in Romania.
@@maestro6458I'm from Romania and you're talking nonsense, there are plenty of jobs available.
@@Sergiu000 Every year, about 1% of the population leaves Romania. If there was work, then people would not leave in such numbers.
@@maestro6458 They are leaving because the jobs in the West pay better, not because there are no openings here.
Interesting that the jobs that literally hold civilization together such as teachers and farmers make the least amount of money. What does that say about humanity as a whole?
Well, it is similar in Australia and New Zealand, in that Nurses, Drs, teachers don't get paid as much as engineers, Tradesmen, or people in the finance industry.
It does seem wrong, when you consider how important their work is to society.
It says that teachers and farmers are easy to manipulate. For a more favourable view, join a union.
In Canada, teachers are at the top of the paying scale and have lot of perks, sick days, long holidays and big pensions. They still strike every year asking for more.
@@AntonGullyor that those jobs don’t require as many qualifications and are therefore easier to replace people in. We can all learn how to farm fairly easily (which until recently 80-90% of all people did), but it’s harder to be a database engineer like the dude in the video, that takes years of training to do.
It's more or less the same thing in France.
Это кошмар, 25/20/30/ тысяч. Геноцид
5:55 he’s been working for 47 years, not 7
damn I as an electrician apprentice in Norway make 1700$ as a 18 year old.
I’m a plumber helper and make about 4300$ in the US. Btw I came here from Moscow where I used to be a category manager and made about 1500$. In the US I would make 10-20k for comparable work
@@MurashPavel wow really, how much would you make when you finish being a helper?
You need to realise stuff in Russia is about 2x cheaper than in Norway. I am also 18 years old and make around the same as you. Im from Finland
@@qksf1645 no its not
@@DavidZinselmeierOf course it is. Look at the rent alone which is wayyy cheaper
3:45 скрепненько
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A big hug to all the teachers of the world, you are real heroes sadly you’re under appreciated . K to 12th grade Teachers salaries are a joke in most of the countries, including in the US. 😞
In Russia the level of tutoring is not that high. So they deserve what they get and it's probably even too much.
@@telebubba5527so $210 for a teacher is too much?
I hate teachers! Wankers all of them!
nah they are overpaid here in Germany for what they are doing plus they have about 2 months holidays. Teachers earn average 50k a year
Please, do not forget that mostly teachers and school workers are responsible for falsifications on elections in Russia
It’s pretty bad that some of them people are working. And earning less then if you were on benefits in the uk 😮 the farmer. The people that feed the nation is poor to the floor
They make same amount of money as EVERY Eastern European country that Joined UE past 20 years 😂😂😂
Difference is Russia isn't pawn state as all of those joke countries, expecially poland 😂😂
Poland "the tough guy", just like the Baltic states, all talk no action, they only talk because they are in Nato, without that they would be very quiet.
imagine working all your life and getting 120 pension
all ex comunist country retirement is the same not only in Russia Est countries the politic are the most corrupting in the world
They probably worked without paying tax.
@@csibesz07yea the company gives them minimum wage + rest of the wage in cash
@@csibesz07 they all worked in times of soviet union, so probably not
Lol. And what country they worked for? Should ask from it for their money
The difference between Moscow and outside is huge.
Cities and so the job opportunity creates always a difference. But this... it is just. 😑😑😑
А зачем считать Москву и остальную страну вместе? Это манипуляция данными
This is a great video. I imagine how long it took - you don't just approach people asking about their income and then leave - it took small talk and some pleasantries to gain some level of trust. Thank you
poor😕maybe that's why they're angry at the whole world
Who's poor? Russians are not poor. You can easily live on $200 a month in Moscow (and even less in other cities), 'cause most Russians have their own apartments, for which they don't have to pay anything other than utilities and internet (about $100 a month total). No HOA fees Food is very cheap in Russia too. Also there's free healthcare for everyone and great public transportation, so you don't even need to have a car. Higher education is free in Russia as well.
Poor are hundreds of thousands of homeless Americans who live in the streets, or those Americans who work two-three jobs just to pay their rent and bills. Many of them also have hundreds of thousands of dollars in medical, student or credit card debt.
@@elena79rusврешь под почти каждым комментарием здесь, изыди
5:56 she told that he's been worked 47 year (not 7) !
the florist should make a lot of money these days😁
Savage...
True
а будет видос с зп в реальной россии, а не в москве?
Don't forget about an exchange rate. Now it is about 90 rubles per 1 dollar. For example in September 2022 1 dollar was about 60 rubles, so it is not really stable and the salaries could be higher in dollar now. Of course, people should get more money for what they do (teachers for example), but just take it into account as well.
It's so funny, that he didn't make video when dollar was 50. I think it would be around 80, but that's really fun he take the worst time to show how poor people are, like TV does.
Teachers should get more there? For teaching lies and propaganda?
@@nfdafds32423bruh
@@Пирамидакуба it doesn't matter to those people who get a salary of 12 000 rubles if the dollar is 100 or 50 - they live in utter poverty anyway
@@nfdafds32423 for you, everything except CNN says is a lie and propaganda?
The average wage income in the U. S. is $4,500 per month. I feel sorry for Russians.
And now say how much after taxes because we count only after taxes
You can easily live on $200 a month in Moscow (and even less in other cities), 'cause most Russians have (fully own) their own apartments, for which they don't have to pay anything other than utilities and internet (about $100 a month total). No HOA fees. Food is very cheap in Russia too (for example, a loaf of bread is 30 cents, 10 eggs are $1), many times cheaper than in the US. Also there's free healthcare for everyone (very cheap medical drugs too - 10 times cheaper than in the US) and great public transportation, so you don't even need to have a car. Also, higher education is free in Russia (so no student debt). Did I mention that there's only 13% flat rate income tax for everyone (by the way, the salaries mentioned in the video are after taxes).
Is that the same in the US? I know it's not.
@@elena79rusне ври. У большинства россиян нет собственных квартир.
@@elena79rusесли вы можете «жить» на 20к в Москве, мне вас жаль. Вы достойны лучшего.
Looks like the average cost of living is 1/4 to 1/2 that of an American, but they make 1/20th the income 😢
cost of living 3 times cheaper but average salary about 6 times smaller
@@Anonymous-gi6hw average is $250/month American, that's less than 2 days earnings in the US. Approximately 1/20th
@@daledelatte9607 salary: 700 - Russia, US - 4220
cost of living: 787 (Russia), 2213 (US)
@Anonymous-gi6hw we aren't talking about Moscow, the average for the country is several times lower
@@daledelatte9607 700 is the average for the country (2193$ with PPP)
God look at how skewed the results are. The people who live on 150-160 a month just blow my mind. As an American that sounds like some super scary shit. It looks like they have old homes they inherited but never had the money to modernize and they're just barely getting by with food. I take my computer, phones and videogames for granted. Then you see people living right near-by who are obviously too young to be anyone important but they're in positions that pay about 1k. Which says two things, they're making like 10 times what the poorest people are making, but also that the jobs that pay alot over there hardly pay anything compared to a regular USD job. I can make 2,000 a month working at a grocery store in California, meanwhile these people went to college and probably took on debt to be a coder for 1100 a month or a teacher for 480. Jobs I would consider especially prestigious make a fraction of what some of the lowest paid US employees who work full time jobs make. That's mind blowing.
Why use USD as a benchmark ? It’s ridiculous. The purchase power parity is not the same in Russia
We should use Euro since we are in Europe.
?????? you're braindamaged lol, why would he use rubles? I dont wanna convert rubles to usd or euro 100000 times 😂😂
Exactly, everything is 10x cheaper there than in the West
@@Sabakinno not true,i live in serbia(serbia is cheaper than uk and germany and most western countries) where the prices are the same as in russia
prices for imported products are still linked to dollars and euros and this is 1/3 of the average Russian consumer basket
You should asked this question when someone answer "the whole world envy us because we are a rich country ". 😅
3% of the Russians own everything. And earns 90% of the total income. Those are the ones loyal to the Tzar.
А с чем сравнение? Я себе на зарплату 1500$ могу позволить больше, чем,допустим, американец на свою зарплату 4500$. Никто не учитывает разную стоимость жизни?
@@elfamint4429 Эти иностранцы немного (или много) туповатые. Не знаю почему, но у этого канала все подписчики выделяются низкой логикой и неспособностью к здравому анализу.
Dont forget these people have grey income that they dont talk about
I'm appalled at how low the wages are! How do people live on so little money? Even the well paid are making very little compared to here in the US and we have had suppression of worker's wages for over 40 years!
Much lover prices, especially outside Moscow. Most people have their own apartment. Taxes is much lower. For example if you have 1000$ per month outside Moscow you are on top, while 1000$ in Moscow is a lower than middle.
Скажу как русский, у нас цены другие, начиная от еды, кончая коммунальными услугами. 1000 долларов в Америке примерно равно 300 долларам в России (я имею ввиду что можно купить на эти деньги ) . То что у вас зарплаты по 5000 тысяч долларов, но вы на счета, медицину и прочие тратите из них 3000 долларов это не делает вас богаче по отношению к нам.
@@СергейТурутин-ч6г Делает, потому что у американца после оплаты всех счетов-медицины и прочего остается 2000 долларов, а у россиянина после оплаты коммуналки-счетов и прочего 20 тысяч рублей.
You can easily live on $200 a month in Moscow (and even less in other cities), 'cause most Russians have their own apartments (fully owned), for which they don't have to pay anything other than utilities and internet (about $100 a month total). No HOA fees. Food is very cheap in Russia too. Also there's free healthcare for everyone and great public transportation, so you don't even need to have a car.
@@ajorfev ну смотря у какого и бывает что не 20 тысяч. а больше, и не у каждого американца 2000 долларов остается, и что можно купить на 2000 долларов в Америке и что можно купить на 20 000 рублей в России, вот в чем вопрос.
The income amount doesn't help us as foreigners to understand. We would need to know the cost of living and what remains after the cost of living.
$130 wouldn't pay for half of my groceries (including food, cleaning supplies, hygiene items, etcetera) in a month, so I am not sure how they could be living on this small amount.
Cist of living is way high in Moscow. For example if you rent an apartment in Moscow you need to pay from 30 to 40 000 rubles .no need to conver5 it to dollar right now cuz the currency has fallen .and if you eat well then minimum 20 000 rubles per month .that's 60 000 rubles .and then there is bills and travel and other expenses
they don't live, they exist. Pensioners in villages usually grow everything they can so they wouldn't need to buy food, chop their own wood for heating and try to spend as little of that 150 a month for a bad day (because they're gonna need more than 150 for a bad day). They usually don't need to worry about housing since they got a shack transferred to them after the collapse of the SSRS
If you don't buy anything, you also live on 130 USD per month! It's simple. The Russians in the countryside grow their own food, then the children in Moscow and abroad support the pensioners.
@@leiflillandt1488 Thanks.
@@luciferjohnson8495 Thanks.
same as everywhere, these useless real estate agents making the most money while school teachers makes 500, yikes