Cost of Living in Santiago

# Catherine Hopefully you enjoyed your visit to Santiago? Like I mentioned priorly Chile is a 1st world country, modern.Other S.A. countries should pay attention and follow Chilis lead.Thanks for visiting my country.

Hi, I visit Santiago once a year at different times. I secure a private bed/bath in a shared apt in El Golf, Las Condes, near
Metro. Rental for 15 days US 450 - 530 ( Airbnb takes a chunk in Comission ) , paid in advanced.
Expenses on Arrival included : 2 Airport transfers CPL $ 8300 each, cook simple things. Supermarket : 3
Gallons of water, 5 lts milk, juices, daily fresh breads, fresh tomatoes, lettuce, dz. eggs, ham, cheese, salami ( twice, 1/4 each time), 2 bottles liquid Yoghurts, , small box mash potatoes, beef steaks, 6 prepared meals, 1 kL rice., bottle pisco sour, chicken to cook, etc., etc. & some indulgences... few lunch restaurants meals, few dinners, few drinks, some coffee
& tarts, or ice cream, etc. Part of this included 4 days traveling : money for gas, tolls, food on the road. My meals included breakfast, lunch & dinner. I also used the Metro around 10 times & had a local cell phone, & did small shopping at H & M. All this CPL $ 660.000 or us$ 1000/ one person for 15 days, end of Feb, almost mid March 2019. One thing there, money goes quickly & you find yourself constantly breaking into a new cpl $ 20.000 bill. Exchange is around one dollar ~ 640., or Cpl $ 1000 = us$ 1.50 Which was corroborated with other purchases made by c. card. So, when you see a price in CPL, add a 50% more to get the price into dollar . This, did not included “ any” extravaganza, performances, hotels, or any thing lavish .... Hope his helps anyone to get a picture .

The city is nice and I make roughly 8.800.000 per month and live roughly equivalent to middle class in a major city in US.
Schools here are insanely expensive, for my eight-year-old about 1.300.000 per month. So Anonymous you can live on 3M a month but you will save nothing. My rent is about 1.250.000 in Vitacura with expenses.

Santiago for a holiday is not cheap, and that is putting it mildly. Quality of food is poor at best.

Staying for longer periods always brings down coats substantially, but if you are looking to eat and drink out often, it is not going to be a reasonable affair.

The one thing that is great about Chile though is its scenic beauty. It's worth every dime.

Hi.

I got an offer from my employer to move to Santiago for work. They offered me a local contract with all medical benefits. I am married with a husband, who will eventually plan to get a job there too but for now he will just move with me.

My company has offered me USD 6900/month before tax. I did some basic calculations and it seems after tax and pension/medical deductions I will be making close to USD 6000/month.

Is this enough to live a fun lifestyle? I'm talking like skiing during the weekends, traveling to Europe/Asia/North America maybe 2 times a year and traveling within LATAM 2-3 times a year?

I would like to save at least USD 2000 a month and I'm planning to rent a 2 bed condo around Las Condes with minimum of 90sqm in size.

Thanks.

In Chile, a middle class Chilean person lives the lifestyle of a poor European person. The upper class live the lifestyle of the equivalent middle class European person, if even that, because services like quality education and health care are private and expensive.

@Sammy,

1. Santiago is one of the safest cities I've lived in Latin America, of course using LATAM standards.
2. If you want to truly enjoy what Santiago has to offer, no. Nonetheless, you can survive in English if spanish is not required to your assignment.
3. I never really stopped to look at veg restaurants but I'm sure a quick google search would help you.
4. Cost of living depends on your lifestyle, you can check breakdowns in Coco's comment below, I find it quite accurate. I'd say that a single person with no children on their 30s would have a comfortable but simple life with $2000/m.

#Coco

Thank you so much #Coco. I appreciate it.
AB

Hi, I'm evaluating moving to Santiago, Chile. I have a family of four, a newborn and a 4 year old daughter. I was just estimating monthly costs and I woudl like to know if I'm close to real numbers. I appreciate your comments, I left blank some items that I couldn't find a reasonable price on the internet:

RENT 1000
MARKET 800
PRIMARY SCHOOL 400
UTILITY 120
INSURANCE?
INTERNET 40
MOBILE PHONE 30
MOBILE PHONE 30
DAY CARE 400
TAXES?

TOTAL: 2820

THANKS.

> Apartment (1 bedroom) in City Centre 289,111.11 CL$ 250,000.00

....yea, no

#Pam F. on Mar 13, 2016 :
I am confused about info above. Is the "Average Monthly Disposable Salary" before or after paying rent, utilities, etc.?

Pam, this question really made my day :)