Cost of Living in Paris

The Gotham City of Europe can maybe attract the villager due to the multiculturalism and the vintage clothes of the students, but the reality is that the mid class (those that work as employees, have their vacation trips every year and are able to save a good chunk of the salary) are maybe 20% of the population, the rest are zombies that barely survive and a few rich people. Don't move for less than 3000 eur net a month

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Wth did I just read?
Average salary of 2.2k euro per month!!!!
No way!
I live here and I know that almost 3/4th of Parisians earns around 1.2k to 1.5k euros per month.
Life ain't easy in Paris. It is tough and honestly tough to find a job, retain the job, pay the bills and all basic expenses. How would you save? Almost none!

Well I love Paris. That said, only those people can live, have fun and save for future whose incomes are more than 3k euros per month. Else it's difficult.

No way salary in Paris is 2.209€ net, 3 of every 4 parisins earn less than 1.500€ net per month, it's a ENORMOUS economic gap between the poor and the rich, while 5% of the city is millionaire, the city has a poverty rate close to 20% and the middle class just earn about 1.500-1.600€ net per month.

Take note on this, and it's one of the most expensive cities in Europe. Paris is worth to visit, not to live in.

Think by yourself why Paris being so famous and acknowledged has just 2.3 million inhabitants. Exactly, because the quality of life is very low. And close to 1 million of those people live in banlieues, far from the city center, where the crime, corruption, unemployment of +20% and low wages of just 1,000-1,200€ per month is the normal life.

Yes there are planty of advantages to leave in the wonderful Paris, real estate is correct and even slightly decreasing in some suburban places. One of the most important inconvegnient are the.....Taxes!:)

Example for income: You have a 50000€ "brut" salary in the center. To net it, you roughly have to decrease 22%. So your real net salary will be 39000€. If you rent an appartment, a studio, you will have to take insurances and to pay a TV tax mandatory TV is 150€ yearly and insurance you can add450€ yearly for a 30 squarre metter place. Then at the end of the year, don't forget that there's an income tax but I thing English people working in France will depend on UK income tax and not on the French system in the which you have to decrease again 20% of your net income. So from the 39000€, a french income payer will have at the very end of tax barrières 31200€.
However, for all other life activity, our system may be the best in the world: extremely cheap social security with high quality doctors and hospitals, some RV can be taken in 24 hours and very cheap meeting with dr ( 22€ for a regular), cheap access to dental any other kind of desease with best quality. If you go for example to public hospital of "Pitié Salpetrière" you can even see some stars or foreign public personalities coming and you will pay 22€ you will meet the same doctors.
School is given compared to UK and US. Transportation is around 40% cheaper than in UK, metro, TGV to move in France. Food is much cheaper than in the UK especially if you go to big malls in the suburbs, go to AUCHAN or CARREFOUR in cities like Vélizy for ex. a few min car ride from Paris and for 150€ you will make 2 weeks of nice and planty of food for one person.
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Hi I got a job in paris and i should be vacating to Paris..The job pays 2100 euros per month is that able to sustain me for aliving and have something to take back home?Kindly please..Thank you.

Hi Guys
My daughter is planning to take undergraduate course in Hospitality management in Paris. What should be the monthly rent for a student as paying guest. Can major expenditures be managed in €800 as budget living.

I was offered a job in Paris (from NYC) for a net yearly salary of 70,000 Euro. Can I support my wife on this salary? We want to live in the city center. Will we have a nice lifestyle?

Regarding monthly disposable salary (net after tax) - France is not a PAYE country, meaning that from your Net salary you will have to pay in September the income tax for the full previous year ( usually 1.5 x one Net salary).

Prices / sqm for buying an appartment are higher. I.e. 11th arrondisment 8500 € / sqm. In the 20th arrondisment 7500 € / sqm. Also mortgage interest rates have dropped to 2%.

Hey Seb! Your info was awesome! My boyfriend moved to Paris because of his job and now I'm planning moving too. I'm IT engineer and currently I'm looking for a job...could you please point me to a descent website, HR company, give me some tips in order to ease my search. Soon I'll start learning French too, because I think it will be extremely difficult to find job without knowing a little French...?

Regards

Hi all, Parisian here, I have been living here for 10 years, so I'm going to answer some recent comments :

#Yogesh T, 900 euros for an appartement in Neuilly is a regular price there, it's a very expensive city close to Paris, and I've seen mor expensive appartements in those areas.

You can use this site for calculating what you will actually receive on your salry : http://www.salairebrutnet.fr

Brut = your salary without all the company taxes, fees etc.
Net = what you receive after all of those went through.

For example my salary is 37k brut a year, but I will only get 28488 net.

For taxes : You can count a bout 10% of your salary. Meaning if you earn 2000 euros a month, you'll end up paying roughly 2400 in taxes yearly. The first year you pay taxes in france you have to pay the full amount up front, but after that you can start paying monthly.

Also know for taxes : it's based on the previous year ! Meaning that if you work in 2015, you'll be paying those 2015 taxes only in 2016.

There is also habitation taxe once a year (in november), it all depends on where your appartement is located exactly, you can get a rough estimate if you were to contact the town hall of your city.

More information here for other users :

If you are planning to find an appartement, 90% of owners will make sure you earn 3x the salary. So if you find a studio for 600 euros per month, you'd need to earn at least 1800, all of this with a CDI contract.

You can have multiple contracts for work : CDI = Contract with no end date, "permanent" job. CDD = A fixed end date, for example 6 months and then it's over. These are the 2 main types. Also know that all contracts have a trial period, generally 2 months, but it can be renewed once (4 months). Higher paying jobs can go up to 8 months in total.

Some good cities on the outskirts of Paris for cheaper rent :

Asnières sur seine (7 minutes away by train).
Bois Colombes (10 minutes).
Colombes (12 minutes).
La Garenne Colombes (10 minutes).
Courbevoie (Next to la defense, 5 minutes from Paris).

In Paris, the cheaper districts are :

18th,
19th,
20th.

These districts are however a bit dodgey sometimes, I'd avoid them if possible.

Some affordable ones :

15th,
12th,
11th,
8th.

Minimum wage in France is about 1300 euros.

To benefit from unemployement, you will have to have worked for 4 months in a job, and not have quit. If you quit your job, you loose all rights to unemployement, you have to either be : end of contract, fired, or an agreement between your employer and you too leave ("Rupture de contrat Conventionelle).

Medical insurance is pricy in the personal domain (around 70 euros a month), however most jobs offer one with a contract (deducted from salary, you end up paying 20 euros).

Public transport is now 70 euros a month for an all zone pass, Paris and all the outskirts.

I hope this information helps.

Reply to Yogesh : You will get around 2600€ net/month. It actually depend on the position you will fill, but if you want to calculate you can remove ~20% or use this website can work too : http://www.salairebrutnet.fr .

You also may have troubles to get an appartment, being a foreigner might scare a little the landlords.

Hi,
I am Asian staying in Malaysia now.
I would like to get a process/mechanical engineer job in Paris due to relationship with a french guy and plan move there for long term moving.
Any recommended to get related job?
Regard

Hi guys! I am a 30 year old single male and I have just received an offer for a job in Paris with a monthly salary of 1300 EUR. I can see the prices on this site are enormous. I've heard the rent for a 1 bedroom flat should cost me about 700 EUR in a decent neighborhood, which leaves me with 600 EUR for everything else. I would really appreciate the advices from people who are actually living there. I am not a big posh spender, but I would like to have a decent life including a cup of coffee / beer from time to time (2-3 times a week) and lets say go out 2-3 times a month. But I always prefer a “coffee / beer to go” and to enjoy the city in long walks. I am also a smoker which I think is important as the prices for cigarettes/tobacco are high. So, my dear friends, is it possible to live in Paris with 1300 EUR and what can I afford with that money? I would appreciate any information and each of your advices will be very helpful to me. Thanks in advance!

Hi,

I'm going to do my PhD in Paris. This position offers 1400 euros net/month. Do you think it's sufficient for student-living expenses?

Kind regards,

Hello guys, i wonder how much a construction worker is paid in Paris?
do they get around 2000-3000 euros?

i want to do bachelors in fashion design from paris (instituto marangoni). what will be the cost of living per month.which includes college fee,rent, transport and all other expenses...

Hi guys.
How much does an international English teacher earn each month?
I want to move to Paris to continue my Education in Linguistics and Literature, and my wife is studying law.
considering the case that both of us worked, could we live a "normal" life?

Cafesoul,
you are so wrong comparing Paris to Auckland and saying that services in Auckland are crap and living expenses high etc...Please go up and compare quality of life in both cities and you will find that living in Auckland is 100 times better than living in Paris. I don't think you are a kiwi

It depends on your current living standards. If you originate from Western Europe/US/AU/NZ, you'll feel quite poor with that money in Paris.

i would like to go to college in paris and im not quiet sure how much it would cost to live ther and i need help deciding in colleges because i do want to be in france. how much is it to rent houses and how much is the average low income?

I'man engineer moving to Paris for a one year contract
Any hints for where to shop for food and a gym to workout?

There's no question NYC is more expensive than Paris.

salaries in paris are really higher than in the rest of France.
i have absolutely no idea of what a designer wins unfortunaetly. Anyway, out of some spécific diplomas (finance, any doctor except perhaps gp, some engineers in some specific fields, lawyers if billingual and or specialised on the above fields, and phd), very hard to begin With above 2200 after tax, i ´ d say.
HoWever, hard to live Alone downtown With less than a 1900 eur wage dowtown.
2000 per 2 person: impossible rai! (Even in the suburb i think)
Property tenant require the couple to earn 3 Times the amount of wage by law, but most of time Will require additional commitment from your parents or company unless you can pay around 5 Times...
However: child éducation is free, so most familiies are double income ones. Insurance not too heavy in the budget as well. Food is expensive but quality above average.
Weather is not very good. (Mix of oceanic and temperated). People are dirty, rude, never smile, often snobish, but quite fun when you know them more. (More and more people speak enclise correctly). You can make very close good friends who Will quickly invite you home for dinner. (Not only meeting in anonyme us pubs)
The city is wonderful doWntown, transport costs are peanuts, we have a city rent service + bus in addition to the metro.
Hope it helped

So if I have a pension of $3800 USD per month can I live comfortably in Paris in a 1 Bedroom?

Hey is average people's salary in Paris accurate?
I mean for professional's salary such as designer, how much they will make? 2400 Eur per month? --> is that for talented/skillfull designer or fresh graduates?

Paris is just so over-rated now! It's sticks everywhere, i'm not even talking about the metro inside. Rudeness and ignorance is art for parisians. You need about 1500 eu for a month to live like a middle class parisian. City itself is beautiful with those amazing buildings and parks. But please be prepared for this city and never smile as soon as you get here.

1.10€ per milk liter? hahah that's so not true! As well as the average salary..I'd say it's somewhere 1500-1850€

Hi,
I would be moving to Paris to pursue my higher studies. I would be offered a fellowship of 2000 euros. Is that amount sufficient for 2 people (couple)to live in Paris?
Thanks!

Hi, how many euros are sufficient to stay cofortably for one person around ecole polytechnique university, Paris

Yes - the way salaries are calculated (not just for Paris - but in general) is skewed.
By skewed I mean that if you take a sample of 100 people all of which are Mangers/Senior Managers who make €60,000 on average then the average salary is inflated. Or overestimated.

Having said that, Paris is a rich city, much richer on average than the rest of France. But still €2.600 (as reported here) is crazy.

If you're in your 30ies and you have a good job (Bank or a big Multinational), depending on your position your salary will range from €2.200 net to €2.800 but that's if you have a good job.

The average salary in the EU is €1.600.. France as a country is not that rich, especially nowadays.

the average salary in paris can't be €2.600 after tax. No way..
If it is, then it's a mere average between the many millionaires who live in Paris and ordinary people..
Salaries in Paris are higher than the EU average for sure, but not as high as €2.600..
This amount is ridiculous.