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Cost of Living in Madrid
Summary about cost of living in Madrid:
- Four-person family monthly costs: 2,607.15$ (2,335.80€) without rent (using our estimator).
- A single person monthly costs: 733.27$ (656.95€) without rent.
- Cost of living index in Madrid is 33.97% lower than in New York.
- Cost of living rank 277th out of 509 cities in the world.
- Madrid has a cost of living index of 66.03.
| Restaurants | [ Edit ] | Range |
|---|---|---|
| Meal, Inexpensive Restaurant | 10.00 € | |
| Meal for 2 People, Mid-range Restaurant, Three-course | 45.00 € | |
| McMeal at McDonalds (or Equivalent Combo Meal) | 7.00 € | |
| Domestic Beer (1 pint draught) | 3.00 € | |
| Imported Beer (11.2 oz small bottle) | 3.00 € | |
| Cappuccino (regular) | 1.76 € | |
| Coke/Pepsi (11.2 oz small bottle) | 1.88 € | |
| Water (11.2 oz small bottle) | 1.17 € | |
| Markets | [ Edit ] | |
| Milk (regular), (1 gallon) | 3.17 € | |
| Loaf of Fresh White Bread (1 lb) | 0.90 € | |
| Rice (white), (1 lb) | 0.50 € | |
| Eggs (12) | 1.70 € | |
| Local Cheese (1 lb) | 4.67 € | |
| Chicken Breasts (Boneless, Skinless), (1 lb) | 2.86 € | |
| Beef Round (1 lb) (or Equivalent Back Leg Red Meat) | 5.58 € | |
| Apples (1 lb) | 0.83 € | |
| Banana (1 lb) | 0.78 € | |
| Oranges (1 lb) | 0.78 € | |
| Tomato (1 lb) | 0.89 € | |
| Potato (1 lb) | 0.52 € | |
| Onion (1 lb) | 0.49 € | |
| Lettuce (1 head) | 0.99 € | |
| Water (1.5 liter bottle) | 0.72 € | |
| Bottle of Wine (Mid-Range) | 5.50 € | |
| Domestic Beer (0.5 liter bottle) | 0.88 € | |
| Imported Beer (11.2 oz small bottle) | 1.24 € | |
| Pack of Cigarettes (Marlboro) | 5.00 € | |
| Transportation | [ Edit ] | |
| One-way Ticket (Local Transport) | 1.50 € | |
| Monthly Pass (Regular Price) | 54.60 € | |
| Taxi Start (Normal Tariff) | 3.00 € | |
| Taxi 1 mile (Normal Tariff) | 1.69 € | |
| Taxi 1hour Waiting (Normal Tariff) | 20.75 € | |
| Gasoline (1 gallon) | 4.61 € | |
| Volkswagen Golf 1.4 90 KW Trendline (Or Equivalent New Car) | 19,345.00 € | |
| Toyota Corolla 1.6l 97kW Comfort (Or Equivalent New Car) | 18,466.67 € | |
| Utilities (Monthly) | [ Edit ] | |
| Basic (Electricity, Heating, Water, Garbage) for 915 sq ft Apartment | 126.06 € | |
| 1 min. of Prepaid Mobile Tariff Local (No Discounts or Plans) | 0.14 € | |
| Internet (60 Mbps or More, Unlimited Data, Cable/ADSL) | 34.27 € | |
| Sports And Leisure | [ Edit ] | |
| Fitness Club, Monthly Fee for 1 Adult | 38.94 € | |
| Tennis Court Rent (1 Hour on Weekend) | 12.99 € | |
| Cinema, International Release, 1 Seat | 9.00 € | |
| Childcare | [ Edit ] | |
| Preschool (or Kindergarten), Private, Monthly for 1 Child | 486.67 € | |
| International Primary School, Yearly for 1 Child | 8,250.00 € | |
| Clothing And Shoes | [ Edit ] | |
| 1 Pair of Jeans (Levis 501 Or Similar) | 80.22 € | |
| 1 Summer Dress in a Chain Store (Zara, H&M, ...) | 28.92 € | |
| 1 Pair of Nike Running Shoes (Mid-Range) | 79.25 € | |
| 1 Pair of Men Leather Business Shoes | 91.42 € | |
| Rent Per Month | [ Edit ] | |
| Apartment (1 bedroom) in City Centre | 777.14 € | |
| Apartment (1 bedroom) Outside of Centre | 571.27 € | |
| Apartment (3 bedrooms) in City Centre | 1,491.33 € | |
| Apartment (3 bedrooms) Outside of Centre | 969.49 € | |
| Buy Apartment Price | [ Edit ] | |
| Price per Square Feet to Buy Apartment in City Centre | 371.32 € | |
| Price per Square Feet to Buy Apartment Outside of Centre | 205.53 € | |
| Salaries And Financing | [ Edit ] | |
| Average Monthly Net Salary (After Tax) | 1,489.02 € | |
| Mortgage Interest Rate in Percentages (%), Yearly | 2.03 |
Prices in Madrid
These data are based on 3684 entries in the past 12 months from 313 different contributors.
Last update: June 2017
Last update: June 2017
34 Comments so far
The average expenditure in food in Spain is 200e/month per person.
The average expenditure in clothes in Madrid is 1200e/year per person (meaning about 100e/month per person).
The average electricity + water expenditure in Madrid is aprox. 70e/month (per house, not per person).
The health system is public and free, I am not sure if you'd have to pay (and how much) if you are not a EU citizen; but I don't think it would be much.
A full-month public transportation card that allows you to use the Metro (underground), buses and trains would be 20e/month if you are younger than 26, 12,30e/month if you are older than 65, and 55e/month if you are in between. If you live outside Madrid city and you are between 26 and 65, consider that ammount could rise up to 100e/month.
And house phone + Internet will be about 30-40e/month, not including mobile phone (about 20-25e/person if you want a good internet connection).
So with about 450-500e/month without rent you should have your basic needs covered.
First of all, the 650 euros per month estimated in this page is the absolute minimum. It should be enough to rent a small room (not a studio, just a room), live without ever (or almost ever) eating outside home, and buying cheap clothes. You could do "fine", but you would live in the verge of poverty.
If your earn around 1000 euros per month, you'd be what in Spain we call a "mileurista" (which literally means "someone who earns around 1000 euros per month"). You should be abble to rent an appartment (either a specially small appartment, or a "normal" shared appartment) and live in a "working-class" style. You wouldn't have a lot of money and would definitely not be abble to have many expenses, but you should do fine if your are a little careful with your budget and if you are lucky finding a cheap and good appartment. On the contrary, if you earn more than 1500 euro / month, you won't have many budget problems.
The average salary in Madrid is aproximately 2000 euros / month (it was 1946 euros / month last year), so the average income for a family should be around 4000 euros / month (the average couple having one or two children on average). Anything close to that ammount would mean you'd live like locals do (which means you'd live pretty well).
EXTRA HINT: If you don't have much money but want to live in Madrid, consider living in the nearby towns, which are very well connected to the capital, both through public transport and roads (in fact many of those towns are called "ciudades dormitorio" ("bedroom-cities") because a lot of people work and spend most time in Madrid and only go to those cities to rest). While 1k may be a little bit tightened for Madrid's center, it should be more than enough to live in cities to the south and east of Madrid, like Fuenlabrada, Getafe, Parla, Móstoles, Pinto, Valdemoro... those are mostly working-class towns where people go to live because they can afford much better houses than they could on the same budget in Madrid's city center.
Oh, and about the comments regarding safety in Madrid: Madrid is a safe city. Spain has one of the lowest crime rates in Europe, far lower than that of France or Germany. You must be careful, of course, Madrid is a big city; but there is no need to be more careful than you'd be in any other big European city like London or Paris. There are no ghettos or bad neighborhoods in Madrid (the closest to that being Lavapiés, which is actually one of the coolest neighborhoods), and the working-class towns around Madrid are actually safer than Madrid itself. You must be specially carefull about pick-pocketers in touristic areas, and never leave something like a bike without a padlock. But that's pretty much everything.
No, you are not right. In fact, if you search the last 2015 report in medical efficiency, Spain ranked 3th in the world just after Singapore and Hong Kong my dear frenchie, do you envy that much Spain and Madrid because your beloved Paris and Frenchie are above?? hehehe deal with the reality my dear.
What? The opinion of dozens of persons in Numbeo? Ok, just look at the oldest comments. It's full of left-wing commenters which had manipulated the numbers in overall Spain, in fact a famous spanish forum with thousands of members has a thread which calls the people to come here to decrease Spain wages and increase all the prices and taxes because the actual government is not of their likings.
My dear frenchie ignorant (probably the country with the most ignorant people in the world) search in google SALARIO MEDIO INE which shows the OFFICIAL AVERAGE WAGES IN SPAIN BY THE OFFICIAL INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE ESTADISTICA, which is the official source for all spanish statistics.
1.881€ exactly is the number of the average wage in Spain, in Madrid the number, as I said before, is 35.000 yearly, but both numbers are gross, as the average net wage in Spain is close to 1.500€ and in Madrid is about 2.300€, just come to Madrid to see that 1 of every 3 cars is a luxury car with Spanish license plate, oh God then the average salary wage according to this page is 1.400€, a person wouldn't afford something more than a Volkswagen Polo or a Renault Clio. For Lord's sake, just see the comments of foreign people which had job offers in Madrid to see that all of them are talking of 40.000-50.000-60.000€ brut wages, little ignorant.
I don't even know why I'm wasting my time with a envy ignorant. The unemployment rate of Madrid is less than 15%, take note that non western immigrants unemployment is above 30% which inflates a lot the unemployment rate, and also there are dozens of thousands of people living on social aids and state rents, when you get unemployed you get the 85% of your last salary in the first 6 months, 75% of your last salary in the period 6-12 months, and if you still are unemployed you get the 60% of your last salary until you get a new job or you apply for a social aid.
Spain is the 6th country in the world with the biggest GDP expenditure on social aids (welfare state) you can check this anywhere in Google, even on Wikipedia, which uses the official WHO data.
Anything that I've said it can be proven on Google just by copying and pasting what I am saying. And not my little envy frenchman, I'm not spaniard as you can see how I write in English I'm a native English speaker.
GTFO away to your shitty country things, and don't use the same nickname here as on other websites as I could prove that you're a french kid with envy on Spain, this is not the first time when you make a comment like this one. Loser!
1.436€ the average net salary? That must be in Vallecas or Orcasitas, working class neighborhoods on the southernmost zone of Madrid, in the city center the average net wage is above 3.500€ per month...
Teresa is just a south american woman envy on Madrid which probably got deported because her visa expired. Madrid is one of the cleanest cities in Europe, way more clean than London or Paris. No one pisses and even less "poop on the streets", lol Teresa must be a schizophrenic person which lives in another reality.
Madrid, as any other European city has people living in the streets obviously, 90% or more of them are foreign people and calmed people, not disturbing anyone because they sleep in the nights in shelters. In fact London is estimated to have x4 times more homeless people than Madrid, Berlin is the capital of homeless with about 5 times more homeless people, Paris has almost the triple, etc seeing an homeless person in Madrid is quite strange, if you come from any other major European city you will note that there are a very few persons in this condition.
Oh, Teresa is also a racist. There aren't any "dangerous" neighborhoods in Madrid, just a couple of districts in the southern limits of the city which are commie blocks of working class people, but that's not dangerous. In the city center 75% of people are tourists, lol latin americans and eastern europeans... whaaaat? you haven't been in Madrid in your entire life, racist.
There isn't any kind of discrimination and Madrid is the biggest gay friendly city in Europe, Chueca is the biggest gay district in overall Europe, in fact Spain was the 1st country in the world to accept gay couples adoption and the 2nd in the world to legalise same sex marriages.
"The beaches in the Mediterranean Sea are the most contaminated in the world" who says this? your envy? The Caribbean Sea, the Indic Ocean, the Dead Sea, etc are way more contaminated than the Mediterranean Sea, at least in Spain 99% of beaches have golden sand beaches and transparent water.
Lol, why a troll like this one can comment here? omg... unbelievable.
To hire an aparment there is very expensive. You have to go in metro far from the city. And pay atention there are many agencies that say they help to look for an aparment in 2 weeks and you have to pay 200 euros. This is a fraud. You have to go to "Ayuntamiento" or police station the tell you what to do.
Food and clothes are cheap.
It is a dirty city ,very very dirty. People does their poop and pisst on the street. There are people sleeping on the main streets with many dogs.
The police and the government does nothing-
Madrid is beautiful for the architecture but then it is shit
To go to live out of the center you have to chose the correct place, in internet you can find the information which districts are more dangerous .
In the center you rarely see a spanish person, they are all from latin america or east europe.
The discrimination and racisms is very very big.
With all persons, for sex, for religion , for color of the skin
The beaches in the mediterranean sea are the most contaminated of the world
To do a document or simple tramit here can take you more than 2 months. No one cares or want to work.
Most of the time rent is 250 euro for a room in a shared flat, bills included, which is nothing, I manage 30-35 euro for food a week, I survive just fine on a grand... I think you'd be flying with 1200
Like what are you looking for a pent house palace and caviar + steak for dinner everyday.
If I didn't go out drinking and spent my money or things like gyms, cinema and other recreational stuff I'd say I could survive happy on about 600-750 a month.
Get real people and stop throwing out these ridiculous numbers that could put off travelers with less income.
am planning to move to madrid in Nov.
gross salary €4k/month.
is this enough for a single lady?
how much do I need to earn per month to have a relatively comfortable life in madrid?:)
#Natalia did you have a look to www.idealista.com? This is the main website In Spain if you want to find an apartment ;)
HEALTHCARE
1) HEALTHCARE in Spain may have been ranked in the top 10 by the WHO in 2000 (15 years ago!), but not only has so much changed since then (recession effects) but the WHO ranking was so arbitrary & ridiculous, causing more controversy than any other ranking, that the WHO have since refused to publish another ranking.
EDUCATION
2) Secondary education in Spain is considered one of the WORST in Europe & among developed countries, on par with the USA. Just check out the PISA results for Spain.
As far as tertiary education (university), you may complain about the USA, but their universities are considered the best in the world, their system #1 (see Universitas rankings, Financial Times, US News, etc.) whereas Spain's are about #30. American universities are known all over the world, with the highest name/employer recognition of all unis in the world (Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Columbia, etc etc) whereas Madrid has NO universities with global recognition.
ECONOMY
3) Considering that the Numbeo results compiled above show a median salary of 1400e after taxes, from over 200 contributors (statistically significant sample), that figure seems far more trustworthy than your "just believe me, most people take home 2000e". And considering Spanish unemployment figures are hovering around 20-25%, with an economy that has shown little improvement in the 7 years since the onset of the global financial crisis, I highly doubt that we should ADD to the median data provided on Numbeo, but perhaps consider these conservative OVERestimates, meaning that 1400e/month is almost certainly closer to reality.
- Health care : Not needed in any form, public health care is awesome and is rated as one of the 10 best public health cares in the world. If you are immigrant but you work totally legal in Spain you'll automatically paying a very little bit of your salary (about 1%) to the social safety (SS) which protects you from labour accidents, vacancies, health, etc... and the health standards are very high, and also the doctors from Spain are very very professional and very well trained.
In fact, Spain has the 2nd life expectancy in the world after Japan, this can be proven by looking at the last official report by the WHO (OMS). Less than 10% of population has private health care in Spain; and most are directly paid by the company, not by the worker. Because it's not needed to have private health care in a country where the public health care works BRILLIANT.
- Education: The same as the health care. All is public and at high standards. Even you can go to College free because a lot of universities are public and they admess almost everyone which reaches the minimum note. Here doesn't happens as in the US for example where you have to wait a long turn for your reply or you have to pay thousands in public universities. NO! In Spain you only pay the entrance fee which is some hundred euros, and that's all, you have 4 years of free university :) with some of the best teachers from Europe.
- Quality of life: The 1st quality of life by far in Europe. Big and beautiful city, but not as stressant as Paris or Londres, and not as expensive as Wien or Berlin. If you mixture the climate, the price of things, the quality of food, the quality of public services, etc you'll find of course the best quality of life in Europe, and one of the first 5 ones in the world that's for sure.
- Cost of living. As I've said in my last comment, it's very important to select in which zone of the city you want to stay, because in the surroudings it's quite more cheaper, everytime you go more close to the center the prices will be rising. The average NET income is about 2.000€ per month and with that salary you'll be fine as a normal medium class citizen of Madrid. For a family of a married couple (both working) and 2 kids, the normal average as I've said before is about 4-5.000€ gross per month which net are about 3.200-4.000€ and with that salary an average family would live good as medium class citizens in the city.
The average income of Madrid is near 2.000€ a month, but it depends on the zone of the city because the Salamanca central zone has a GDP per capita close to 3.000 USD , and a salary higher than 2.000€ per month. There are another neighborhoods like Vallecas where it's a working class neighborhood and the average salary is about 1.400-1.500€, but anyways all the neighborhoods of Madrid are totally safe even if they are working class/immigrants neighborhoods.
A normal family in Madrid (married couple) earns about 4-5.000€ a month (gross, not net; from 4.000 gross net is normally around 3.200-3.400€) and about 3/4 of the population belong to the medium class; take note that a normal appartment inside the city with 3 rooms cost at least 700€ per month and I'm talking about old appartments in the surroundings; but in the city limits which is perfectly communicated with the entire city and outsides with the metro and the bus lines.
Anyways a decent appartment near the centre of Madrid costs 900€ or more per month; if you are alone and you earn at least 1.500€ (that's a quite low salary for Madrid) you can live OK in the surroundings, at any hour you'll have metros or buses (or both) which connect you to the city center or other neighborhoods in some minutes, or you can take your car or buy one in Spain and use it as most of habitants from Madrid do. A small appartment in the surroundings is about 400/450€ per month, and a room in a shared appartment inside Madrid city is about 270-300€, more expensive every time you go more close to the centre.
The food is quite cheap, and there are supermarkets at basically every corner of any street of the city or it's surroundings; take note that only in Spain, there are more than 10 supermarket companies and without counting the foreign ones like Carrefour or Auchan, for example. So buying cheap food wouldn't be a problem if you know a little bit of cooking :)
You can also eat quite cheap at Burger King with the promos from the BK official app available on Play Store or iOS Store, or in the pakistani Kebabs, italian pizzerias, etc... restaurants are quite expensive, but working class pick up food stores are quite affordable.
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In this situation we are unable to work in our country & looking some works outside. If you have any vacancy on the whatever the post is, it does not matter. If you have any job please do contact me, I will be ready to work for your company & help to achieve company's goal.
I will be glad if you would help me to get to your country for a job.
Of a ready house within Madrid main City
Since I am planning to buy and move from
Present place that isNew Zealand
And also advise what is the running and maintenance cost of the house per square meter
What is the living cost for two per month
Thanks
i am IT Administrator i am looking for a job and want to move Madrid city because where i live in alicante there is no option to live,so make a plan to move ,if anybody who live madrid please tell me what is the situation in madrid in IT field?my mail address is msalman72@hotmail.com plz i need your help to for my better future...
thanks sam
Thank you for any input.
Am offered a Job in Madrid, with Monthly Salary 3000 Euros, I have two Daughters (5 & 2), they don't speak Spanish, but they speak natively English & Arabic.
Do you think it will be enough to live in Spain?
Thanks
My name is Habtamu Asitatikie from Ethiopia and in the coming September 2014,I will come to Madrid for study.
I got full scholarship and currently trying to accomplish my VISA issue.
What is the living expense seems?
I will get 1000 euro per month.
May this will be affordable with out jobs?
I am going to start making $80,000-$90,000 relocating to a new company in Miami.
There is an opportunity to work in Madrid and they are asking me what my salary requirements are.
I lived in Madrid as a kid and understand what living there is going to be like, but I have no experience with the cost of living.
How much would I need to ask in Euros in order to have a similar lifestyle as making $80-$90k a year living in Miami?
Would it also be reasonable to ask for spanish tutoring for the kids and/or private english school to be paid by employeer? What about for my wife?
No. Unless you go to an Eastern European country, that kind of money won't get you far in most of Western Europe.
Spain is fairly cheap and much cheaper compared to, say, Italy, France or the UK but still if you want to go out etc €400 is too little even in Spain.
I was offered a job with a language assistant program in Spain today. I was placed in Madrid and the details include that I would live a year in Madrid with a host family, whom would take me in for 8 months as an additional member of their family. To me, this is a nice option because I will not have to worry about paying for food or living expenses. However, I will be earning 400€/month working 20 hours/week. Even though I will not be worrying about food or room, is this realistic to live on in Madrid? I have done some traveling before but not in Europe, so I would appreciate any advice you might have.
Thank you,
Blake
I've lived in Madrid for three months during the summer and I can truly say the city has a great atmosphere, filled with funny people and an absolutely buzzing nightlife! ·Its fairly cheap to live out here, although I have visited towns which have been cheaper in Spain, but to be fair Madrid is not at all expensive if you know where to go! The public transport is very good, price-wise (around 50€ for a monthly pass)and the accommodation even more so. During my stay, I lived in a very cheap flat in the very center of Madrid for 300€ per month - with the aid of the Spanish language school where I studied. If someone is interested in Madrid, here is a video from two very good friends of mine at the school, talking about life in this great city.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAT7VYLuCRk
I'm considering an internal transfer, from my homecountry (Malaysia), to Madrid. I've spoken to the HR side in Madrid, and all work scope had been briefed accordingly.
The next step is for me to send them the remuneration package that I think would be ideal for me. The position that is being opened is Senior Manager, Corporate Communications. I'm a Bachelor's degree holder, and in total, I have 11 years of experience in communications, media and corporate responsibility areas. I'm female, married with 2 kids. Currently, I'm earning RM5,500 per month (which equates to about 1,264.24EUR).
I would appreciate it, if any of you could assist me in sharing some info... especially on the estimate range of salary that I can propose. Thank you.
CN-Madrid: 40K per year (before huge taxes) is more than enough to live for a single person if you rent.
Mehdi: Depends on where you work and what kind of services you like. If I could I'd live in a country house or villa in the mountains. If I have to work at the office, I'd live in a house in a satellite city (e.g. for Madrid: perhaps Tres Cantos, Majadahonda, Villalba or Boadilla del Monte?). If you like to live in big city centres, you can afford almost anything in Madrid (Salamanca district).
Noel: I suppose a household income of 60000 € would be adequate if you want to live in the centre of Madrid. Education is free (mostly free now, thanks to our beloved government and austerity), unless you want private education. Health is free (partly free now, thanks to our beloved government and austerity), but private health services which work in addition to social security will cost some 60 € a month per person.
Debasish Sarkar: That's far more than Spaniards would make in that position.
Sam: 24K is the bare minimum you'd need as long as you live in a cheaper satellite city (e.g. Leganés, Getafe, Fuenlabrada) and don't have an expensive life style. It's not a great offer, but salaries in Spain are that bad.
Thanks for your help
thanks
Noel