The HSE official Instagram just gave the following example, Niamh and Sean make 104k a year (76,000 after taxes). Childcare 3,033 a month, rent 2750 a month. Their take home pay is 6333 a month, and their rent and childcare is 5780. This would leave them with 553 a month, or 138 euro a week, before food, a car, a bill or a piece of clothing. The fact this is most likely a realistic example is beyond belief. My jaw was on the floor.
Ireland in 2024.
by MrFrankyFontaine
30 comments
Good luck getting an appointment, Niamh and Sean.
Is that the cost of childcare? Thank fuck we dont have kids..Jaysus
No wonder people who are qualified in either skilled labour or college are fleeing in droves can’t blame them
Jesus christ that’s some example.
Their faces should be a lot sadder.
Niamh and Sean will never qualify for a mortgage.
36k a year for child care is not too far off one of thier take home pay.
Niamh & Sean are fucked, and if they weren’t getting a free GP visit they couldn’t afford to eat if their child got sick.
Jesus wept, this is depressing.
I got stuck on the €104k part, nevermind the rest 😳
Fair play Niamh and Sean. Still smiling bai
Christ on a bike, so my lowly paying wfh job is saving me 3k a month because I can have the kids at home
Its over, soon half the country will be emigrating once again
No wonder the birth rate is falling off a cliff.
The account name of the HSE being ‘irishhealthservice’ pisses me off more than it probably should
104k between them isn’t too unrealistic. Me and my SO earn 76k between us and both earn below the national average.
Going by the rent prices you can assume it’s Dublin so the wages are probably inflated also.
GPs – “we’re literally operating over capacity, it’s only a matter of time before the system fails”.
Government-“more free Gp visits should solve that”
That the same ones from the KBS advert?
Try it sometime.
I feel like I woke up on a different planet one day and everyone was earning upwards of 60k each.
Is there anyone else out there inthe 20’s. Pay wise? I dont recognize anything about this economy.
Thank god for part time work and god bless you grandad 🙏
I mean whatever about the rent, obviously it’s bad, but fucking hell that childcare is bonkers
So they have €550 a month left to pay for food, electricity, fuel etc? Or am I going wrong somewhere?
Working full time and still only have a pittance to live off.
Ya, sounds about right. After rent and kids I’ve about €130 left a week to cover bills, food, clothing, travel, etc.
That childcare bill is very high, my crèche is 195 per week without any subsidies for one kid, so for two, 400 a week, 5 weeks in a month is 2000, still huge but much lower than the above.
Bring the subsidies into it and it’s less- anyone working full time in a crèche signed up to the service gets 1.40 per hour for a max of 45 hours… that brings the weekly bill down to 264€
We are not in Dublin
Make it impossible even for people with a decent income to live properly and raise children and then wonder why nobody is having children to pay pensions. I’d love to see the whole crowd of current cunts in government caned bare-arse and driven out of the country
Surprising that at home child care isn’t becoming more prevalent.
On paper it makes sense for two couples like this to go in together and hire a child carer directly. With a bit of maneouvering between the parents around work start/end times they could proably get by with someone (maybe a qualifed carer who wants to go down to part time) for just 10am to 4pm each day and pay them €3000 per month. It would be €1500 per couple then instead of €3030.
They’d arguably have a better level of care as well.
Does Niamh and Sean know that they’ll be on a waiting list for a GP until the kids are old enough to afford their own VHI?
Niamh also has a side hustle Only Fans to afford luxuries such as food
You didn’t count the €420 child benefit, but it’s still cruel.
Niamh and Sean need to get the fuck out of Dublin.