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Post by menace on Sept 19, 2019 10:52:48 GMT 1
I am not someone that watches the media closely, but I am really starting to notice a lot of things in the papers that try to sell Croatia and these are not the usual touristy attraction stuff, but it is more aimed at Croatians (probably to convince them not to emigrate.)
A few months ago I remember some big article about the average pay being 6,000 kn (really!, even before tax is pushing it!) then there was something about being in the top world 11 for something (sorry, cant remember), there was clean air,natural resources and the usual food, child safe, low crime rolled out in bold print
And again today, 7,xxx is the average pay! what? apart from this jumping over 1000kn in under a year...who actually earns this apart from maybe middle management, which surely cant number the average for a 4 Million plus population?
7,xxx kn average, hmm, yes if you have maybe 2 incomes. (and no criminal activity)
As a guess, I would say the average pay (net) would probably be more closer to 4,000kn...according to all those supermarket workers, cleaners, security guards, building labourers, secretaries and other low level workers that make up the majority of Croatia's workforce.
Anyone else got any input on this?
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Post by Valleycat on Sept 19, 2019 12:00:22 GMT 1
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Post by Ribaric on Sept 20, 2019 11:00:59 GMT 1
As a guess, I would say the average pay (net) would probably be more closer to 4,000kn...according to all those supermarket workers, cleaners, security guards, building labourers, secretaries and other low level workers that make up the majority of Croatia's workforce. Anyone else got any input on this? I make you spot on. To get 4,000 kn you'd need to get your gross pay (bruto) plus travel time and any other allowances added to it. The jobs you mention would be much sought after here (Varazdin) if they paid 4,000 kuna. www.ruralpropertycroatia.com
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Post by kesterj on Sept 23, 2019 3:06:30 GMT 1
Kn 4000 = EUR 540. And that's good for the provincial towns?
Is it still as low as that? Good grief, how can all those lovely people in Zagreb afford to sit in the coffee shops in their (very) nice clothes on such incomes?
At the same time, everyone I speak to who's gone to the coast inevitably says: But it's getting so expensive! (Bar one friend who cycled there with her boyfriend in the summer and obviously chose very carefully.)
As always, there seems to be a lot of money going in to certain points, but not being shared our very evenly.
Haaven't managed to make it to the Land of Balkan Promises since 2015 when the refugee crisis was on (popped into Varazdin almost exactly four years ago, Ribs)- but if you haven't got rentable property, it seems to be getting worse.
As I've always said, the Croatian coast is a blessing* and a curse. (* for those who own the rentable property - the rest are supposed to produce goods and services and sell them at the inflated price levels of the kuna caused by the huge tourism incomes.)
Then add in the energy-sapping, time-consuming bureaucracy, plus dose of minor Balkan corruption, and you can see why a friend of mine runs his Croatian business out of Ljubljana.
Shakespeare would surely have penned a wonderful expression to describe this trap.
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