Median net household income was €4897 last year

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1. Honestly I thought it would be more. But I mean median is always skewed to the lower values, so I guess that’s it

2. So pretty much most household is making between 70-75k a year. Sounds reasonable, but how to afford such new houses then ?

3. “Comparing the household and individual figures, either the salary is very unbalanced between male and female, or simply one person supports the whole family”

   The difference probably stems from varying household compositions. A household can have no breadwinners, two, or more breadwinners (e.g. Parents with young adults)

4. Households also include one-person households.

5. Curious how they treat flat shares. If it is comprised of 5 young individuals earning 50k each, would the household income be counted as 250k?

6. Or, the way this is calculated is that you get a figure per capita which you then multiply by the average household heads to get a number per household. And the capita generally includes children too, so none of this means what the author of this article think it means.

7. One main breadwinner + one part time seems to be quite common, especially in the better earning of segments of society…

8. Well I’m broke