Cost of Living in Bucharest

Bucharest - Average Monthly Net Salary (After Tax) - 854.59 €
Berlin - Average Monthly Net Salary (After Tax) - 2,919.93 €

Cost in Berlin is slightly higher than in Bucharest, though the Net Salary in Berlin, is 3-4 times higher.

PS: Zurich - Average Monthly Net Salary (After Tax) - 6,424.63 €

These are just examples, do not take them as an offence.

I've never met an intelligent romanian inroute, at the airport in Bucharest. Also romanians are gypsies that rarely bathe and wear layers of clothing to mask their body odor. Portable kiosks should be mandatory for hot water hosedowns with deodorant soap.Yes all romanians stink of body odor.I cringe knowing my flight will stop in Bucharest inroute,to elsewhere.

@Kiran

58.5% of salary is take home that is more or less right. You will not get back your pension contributions unless you retire there so please make sure the company offers you a social security reimbursement - should be approx 35% of your salary.

Hum trashy pile of rubbish you said? Your comments on Feb 7,2021 hum? Everyone knows how dangerous Bucharest actually is and I must agree with comments made about Bucharest on Dec 19,2020.I'm not of the mindset of others in Europe who carrouse in the red-light districts visiting Bucharest.I drive a taxi throughout Bucharest so I see all of the violence taking place throughout Bucharest and I've driven taxi 56 years in Bucharest,yes I'm a native Bucharestian.Gun battles day or night,it doesn't matter how safe any area's are supposed to be.Take your RUBBISH SELF back from whence you came and your shag parties with you.To post Dec 19,2020 thank you for telling it like it really is because I too live and work throughout the violent city daily.

There's way too many gypsys living in Bucharest.They are laying drugged or drunk on the sidewalks

Dear Anonymus,

Are you realy sure you lived in Bucharest, Romania?

Kind regards,

Prices are a lot higher in Bucharest and Romania then in this Summary... to get this prices for food you need to search all town for cheap food...

Hi All,
Also could you please guide me about free/paid education for my 10 year old kid . After going through couple of fourms observed the international school is expensive .
I don’t believe in expensive education but wanted to know how good is the Govt schools education system . Thank you .

I've saw a comment bellow in regards with public transport that it's expensive. :)))))
This is not true. If you pay per month 15 EUR for metro then try London :) with more than 1k GBP per month, try Amsterdam and then we'll discuss.

Bucharest and Romania are great for leaving and everything is affordable even for a Romanian which has an University diploma and then continued learning and being professional in his career, especially in IT.

Rentals and also purchasing for apartments cannot compare with other European capitals. Take Paris for example; 1 room studio around city centre ~500k EUR.
Bucharest, around city centre 1 room studio ~55k EUR.

Let's not mention that Romania is a safe country from many perspectives.

Any information on pipera lake project in Bucharest ? Location, fair purchase price for 1 and 2 bedroom apartment, rental prices etc...

Im from sri lanka. Romania is suitable for doing jobs? and. How much we need to cost for month? Please help

I been married to my Romanian wife for 5 years now and been with her 7 years. I am American from California. I have found Romanian women to be among the most beautiful I ever seen. I see some ignorant comments about Romanians, but most don't trust you at first. When they do, they treat you like family. I like the nightlife there and hanging out with some genuine people, I got to know. You make friends in any country with your attitude, so don't blame others if you are not finding friendly people. I own a brand new 2 bedroom condo. I pay 56,000 Euros. That is beyond cheap where I lived in California, USA. I agree with the statement dated May 18, 2019. You can live very good here for 1500 Euros per month. Most consider that well off. A single person can easily live off that and have money left over. Some of this above prices are high where I get things. I guess you can find some places higher than others, but most people living there know where to get bargains. Currently the US dollar here goes far, Current conversion is $1 US Dollar to 4.2 Romanian Lei. I found Romania to be one of the cheapest places I been too. Bucharest might be a little more money, but there is always things to do. If you live on outskirts are other places, you might find it even cheaper. You can also own a business that generates money for not a big investment. I would suggest hiring a Lawyer to have all paperwork in order. You can get for around 500 Euros.

I spent a week in Bucharest while attending a funeral. I spoke with many people about moving to Romania, as I am retired and have a decent income. I found that in Banessa was comfortable, safe and easy to get around in. Apartments were very inexpensive as well as food and transportation. I took Uber from Sector 2 to Banessa and it cost me $5 (Around 15 km). The one issue I found is immigration and the bureaucracy It is very hard for retired people to move to Romania. Also, Health insurance and healthcare are very expensive for ex-pats (Break your arm, and you have to pay 10,000 euros up front and wait for your insurance to reimburse). Still, Bucharest and Romania will forever be my dream place to live.România dragostea mea!

#fffff Do your research Russia just took 75% of coast line in Crimea.During the 2008 Olympics Russia took a big chunk of northern Georgia and nobody said a word.

Hope your condo is bomb proof,Putin said he will bomb parts of Europe if U S missles are allowed. Romania is one area Putin mentioned in Europe.

Don't come to Romania! It's not safe for outsiders. Live in the mess that you created in the West! Deal with it!

",$800 eur rent, $300 eur food " NOT EATING OUT " $500 eur transportation, utilities $400 eur."

WHAT? Are you sure you live in Bucharest, and not New York? Do you take helicopter to work? Because 500 EUR per month is unbelievable. I think that you meant to say those prices are in RON, which would then be close to reality.

Hi, i'm planning to come Bucharest for doing master, i wanna know that how much money is enough for a student per month ? Btw, is there any vacancy for students ?

Thanks in advance.

The Euro is becoming less valuable each day,it's not rebounding.So the figures here are out the window.Italy and other countries are dropping out of the Eurozone due to the Euro losing value as mentioned priorly.

How much salary an experienced Senior Java Developer could expect?
In Sofia, Bulgaria I heard numbers like 3.000 Euro Net. Is it the same in Bucharest?

I also heard, that in Romania Net Salary=0,585 x Gross Salary. Is that true?
Thanks

People are you crazy ?

In Romania with 1000 euro for one person or 2000 for 4 person (2adults + 2 kids) it's a very good and sweet life , for a normal family. But depend how much you want to spend ... Example If you are going to a club in downtown you cand spend 200-300 euro for a bottle of whiskey.
Can you rent outside of city center 2 or 3 rooms with 300 - 500 euro.

Hi there,

I have plan to move our family (i, my wife and my son) to Romania. So can you please advise how much monthly cost that we have to be aware of eg. Renting, food....?

Thanks so much.

@Alexandria, 400 Euros should be plenty enough. You can exchange one Euro into between 4.5-4.6 RON on any given day. The exchange charge would drop that to about 4.1-4.2, but even with that drop, you would still convert into about 1650 RON. That amount is plenty if you don't spend at extravagant pricey restaurants.

Is 3200 EUR gross salary a good one to live in Bucharest for a Family of 4.

These costs are extremely high compared to what Romanians really pay. At 7,151.27 lei per month, you would be considered rich, since the average income is about 550 Euros.

Another "secret" (Polichinelli's secret, as everyone knows about it, but only our corrupt politicians pretend this is not true), is that beside the real unofficial unemployment rate that beat the world record of all time (even for war zone states like Siria, going on average to 45-60% of active population), so another "secret" is the Bucharest population, that officially is still at 2 million, although in the last 20 years they built more than 20.000 blocks of apartments, and many people still live crowded and pay rent, so nobody knows the real sum, but some say it's between 3 million to 4 million and the Ilfov county (metropolitan area of Bucharest) between 5 to 7 million people - but this should not wonder anyone since the corrupted politicians conducted us (by stupid-animal instinct) to a South-American-Mexican oligarchic model with a single super-city where 70% of the entire country's business is run and the rest of the country with 30%.

@#Anonymous, there is no manipulation, but outside Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, Timisoara and possibly Arad and Brasov, the salaries drop abruptly, and vary a lot although the cost of living not so much. One is the official salary and another thing is the unofficial one. The official average salary is computed per country and is totally irrelevant, as many Romanians (40% are not even working officially so even unemployment figures are misleading: they report 4-6% unemployment rate, but they count only the people that asked for help and that were eligible, that is for a maximum of 6 months, after that they go hobo. So by what I can see from friends, brothers, their friends, parents, etc, the unemployment rate goes between about 15% in Bucharest to 39% in other large cities from South and East of Romania like: Craiova, Galati, Iasi, Constanta, and up to 70% in small, almost deserted towns, so the tragic situation of the country is a "state secret" officially, unofficially is the secret fueled by our corrupt politicians, they are not the state, only some mafioso that went political.
The salaries, in Bucharest, officially go on average as net of ~700 Euros/month, unofficially more than 1000. But in other big city is really 700 and in a small town may be 400. What this means? Yes, you can advertise a free job for 700E/m but nobody will present to the interview in Bucharest. In the western side of Romania si almost like in Bucharest, very close, but not quite the same. For instance on average the prices in real-estate in Cluj are even slightly higher than Bucharest's average, however in the city-center they will be topped at ~1500E/sqm -which is very high even so for Cluj, but in Bucharest the city-center is so large, that there are variations even for it, going from 2500E/sqm to 10.000E/sqm, but yes, the average for the entire city is 1300E/sqm sligtly less than for Cluj where is 1310E/sqm. The same can by applied to other large cities, an average of 1200E/sqm means a very small variation between the very center of the city and outskirts, which is not true for Bucharest because it is so crowded that is practically impossible to drive with a car from outside the city to the center and even if you succeed you'll find there is no free parking space and can drive for 2 hours looking for one, like in center New York. This made the prices explode in the very center, but this doesn't matter in any other Romanian city where you can drive in 10 minutes into the center an find even a free parking space. That's why only in Bucharest the real-estate prices be 10-20 times higher in the very center.