Minimum wage employees: 37 days of work to pay 1 energy bill

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  1. Amai, maar dat is echt wel heel slecht becijferd.

    Als ge het minimum(bruto)loon verdient, €1.842, dan houdt ge daar €1.707 van over (voor gemiddeld 19 werkdagen per maand).
    Gemiddelde jaarlijkse elektriciteitsfactuur van €2.227 betekent dat
    25 werkdagen moet doen om de factuur te betalen.

    2227/1707*19 = 24,78

  2. Edit: Forget it all, apparently Google gave me wrong numbers. See two replies below.

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    Let’s do math…

    They say a bill of 2227€. No indication of any price per kWh, so a quick google search tells me it’s currently 0.2994€/kWh.

    That means 7438kWh per year, or 620kWh per month.

    That’s actually a lot, uh, that’s almost two and a half times what I use (3200/year, so 267/month).

    *Wait, I forgot social pricing. Social pricing comes down to 0.2461€/kWh, or, with day/night, 0.2541 during the day, 0.2055 by night. So it’s actually even more electricity. If we talk of minimum wage workers, I’m pretty sure social pricing must be the one that matters.*

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    So, anyway, if they use two and a half times more electricity than me… it means I do a good job on saving. Also means they probably used data for a *home* with perhaps 2 adults 2 children, rather than isolated people in an apartment (or some average). It’s never been specified in the article, so.

    In other words, you’d generally have two people pay for it. Two incomes. Not one.

    That generally goes in the direction other people point, it seems misleading. *But yes, that’s still really expensive, can’t disagree with that.*

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    On another note, the minimum wage is 1842€ per month? Dang me and my 1093.20€ per month. Well I guess that does explain why I find everybody so rich in comparison.

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