Cost of Living in Madrid

For an expat, is 2100 euros/month gross salary good enough to live decently in Madrid?

Average salary 800€, normal working hours. A salary 1600€-slavery hours(more than 12 hours daily), this its the true.

# Danna low end rent for a flat will cost minimum 1,500 Euro per month.3,000 Euro wouldn't be enough gross per month.If that was net you'd be scraping by at 3,000 Euro gross per month isn't a good offer I'd pass on that remember also Spain taxes begin at 28% which would leave you very little money sorry to burst your bubble but honesty is best.

Figure $500 eur per day which includes lodging, eating out, transportation, and entertainment depending upon where you are.Thats just the basics.

hi! how much is the average salary for receptionist(hotels,hostels..) in madrid? is it lower than barcelona?

Are you an IT specialist or an accountant manager?

Is an ok salary, but you wouldn’t save much and have high standards of living as you would have in London, Berlin, Warsaw, Dubai

The average salary in Madrid is around 2,200 Euros (gross) which works out to be around 1,600 (net) after taxes so the data provided here seems correct.

Hello,

I am planning on moving to Madrid with A Bachelors Degree in Mechanical Engineering. I wouldn't mind living in a small studio for approximately 700€ withbutilities included (Of course, if my income allows me too!).

I have some questions regarding payments:

Does Madrid have a monthly car insurance payment? If so, on average how much?

Do I need to pay medical and dental insurance a month?

Can you get by witu 25€/ day? Thanks guys!

Hola,

I would like to know what is the average monthly salary(with taxes) for a junior software engineer in Madrid , Spain.

Sorry, but the average salary is not accurate. According to INE and PayScale, personal income in Madrid is about 30k to 35k which means around 2 - 2.2k monthly after taxes, while in Spain average salary is 26k anually.

Hi guys,

I am having an interview in Madrid as a revenue analyst. Requirement are 1 year experience and master. I currently have 3 years experience in same position in Brussels.Which salary should i expect? Is 30 k too high or should i ask them even higher?

The average monthly salary of 1,489 is not realistic, it depends, A LOT of your work's field, expertise, and company.

As per example, I work in an HR department (with 2.5 years exp) and I'm almost there!. But if you work in the IT field with this same exp. you'll be earning almost 2k monthly.

Also, as per rent (as a non-native from Madrid) is EXPENSIVE! like, a lot! hard to find a good place in a normal neighborhood etc. being realistic, my first year in Madrid I had to live in a flat with no rooms (Kitchen-living-bedroom all in one) really far from the city center and industrial neighborhood for 650€ per month (the worst part is that it wasn't a bad deal....) after a year I could afford to move to another location, near the airport and I could find a flat for 900€/month (plus commodities), this one has 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, pool etc, so is a GREAT deal (normally, those features will cost you around 1k-1.2k monthly, I just was lucky).

Anyways we are 2 at home and we have an income (net) of 2.2k monthly, we manage to save around 100€ per month and I can assure you, we don't throw out money.

- rent: 900€
- electricity/water month: 90€
- food for 2: 400€
- internet + phones: 70€
- gasoline: 150€
- car payment: 200€
- extras (clothing, dinner outside etc): 200€
- saves: 100€
- public transport: 78€

Madrid is a pretty expensive city and you shouldn't spend more than a 1/3 of your net income in your flat/room. Any unexpected cost would be critic if you spend more than that (If you want let's say for example to go with your friends/colleagues to have a beer or get out, you could EASILY spend around 50€).

Hope that helps

Just a note: that 1200e/year in clothes sounds more than excessive, and is far more than I spend (although I don't buy many clothes). Consider 50e/month to be enough.

Sandra Gomez, just a note... the 650 euro figure relates to monthly expenses without rent. How does that sound?

DrJay gtfo away envy frenchie, Spain has one of the biggest number of school leavers in Europe, but the quality and the equipment of students is among the highest of the world.
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!

Madrid is not a quite city. All the year you can`t walk in the center of the city.
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.

hey,
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?:)

is 7600 euro (net) salary per month enough to live very comfortably in madrid? I am planning on studying in IE.

I'm from brazil and I'll study for one semester at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, is possible to find some place to live for 300 euros? Because I'll receive a scholarship fo 2500 euros for the 5 months, is this amount enough?

As a person living in Madrid, everything more or less corresponds to reality except for the Internet (10 Mbps, Unlimited Data, Cable/ADSL). That price may correspond to 3 years ago, but now you can pay almost that, 38.51, for 100Mbps for a cable fiber optic connection including unlimited data and fixed line national calls ... and this is a pretty standard offer¡ Today one of the best ones could be a 300Mbps DSL (not ADSL) for that same price ... and for 5€ more per month you could have TV stream to your home ...

I will explain more things about Madrid as I am a native Spaniard.

- 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.