I’ll soon be graduating from university, and it’s come to my attention that I’ll be needing a job…
By chance and by birth, I happen to have an EU passport and so I can work in Ireland… Anyway, I found a site with basic translation jobs etc (I speak French) and they tend to pay from about 15,000 - 30,000 euro. Somehow that doesn’t seem like a living salary, and so I was wondering if anyone knew the avg income in Ireland (I should note that I mean the Republic here)… I googled it but couldn’t find anything that made any sense to my non-graph oriented mind… Perhaps rather than avg income, I should ask what kind of income one can live on without sleeping on a different corner every night…
Anyone have any ideas?
(I should note that for a temporary amount of time I might need to support one other person on this salary)…
It would be a good idea to search the Irish government website www.oasis.gov.ie for stuff like that and the site of the statistics office for average incomes.
Ireland is the second most expensive country in Europe where cost of living is concerned. My family is living on less than half of what an US member of this forum in another discussion called the minimum she could see anyone surviving on. Had a good laugh about that at the time, mostly because she was complaining she hadn’t enough to spend on an income more than three times ours. The figures you quote seem about right for the job. Surviving depends on your spending patterns. That’s the way. Look for the fun of it into rent for appartments and car insurance for the under 25s (neither of which I have to deal with)
I have done a bit of free lance translation work, while 15-30 K is the going rate you’d better expect to fall in the 15-20 bracket. That aside people with language skills more often than not end up in the call centres in ireland, customer service and telemarketing, lovely. That will get you around the 15K
Dublin
Area: 27,136 mi² (70,282 km²), slightly larger than West Virginia
Population: 3.6 million
Life expectancy: 72 (male), 78 (female)
Racial/Ethnic: Celtic, English
Literacy: 90% Per capita income: $12,000 (that’s in US$)
Type of Government: Parliamentary Democracy
Economy: computers, chemicals, meat/dairy products, machinery
Religion: 91% Catholic
4% Protestant
Language: English, Gaelic
589 Euro in the “Distrubution & Business Services” as an example…
With a 50 week year (assuming 2 weeks of holiday… would that be a bit short?) then that’s 29.450 annually… prior to taxes, of course.
That’s roughly $40,000 US. Pretty comparable, really, to US wages.
Wow - check out the public sector! Gards make a weekly average of 743.41 Euro?
And then there’s the income tax, of course:
Single Taxpayers
Personal tax credits of €1,520
Income Tax after subtracting deductions from total pay:
20% on the first € 28,000
42% on the balance
Married Taxpayers (two incomes)
Personal tax credits of €3,040
Income Tax after subtracting deductions from total pay:
20% on the first €uro 56,000
42% on the balance
Married Taxpayers (single income)
Personal tax credits of €3,040
Income Tax after subtracting these deductions from total pay:
20% on the first €uro 37,000
42% on the balance Tip: The profits from the publication or sale of an original and creative work exempts an Irish resident from income tax if it falls under one of the following five categories: 1. A book or other writing 2. A play 3. A musical composition 4. A painting or other like picture 5. A sculpture.
Get painting now!
Wow, thanks for all the replies. So I guess then that those numbers aren’t so low after all. I just got worried considering everyone always says how damned expensive Ireland is, and also I’d like to save money for grad school eventually.
That oasis site is really useful, so thank you for posting it Mr. Laban. As for the most of the jobs I’ve found so far, they do seem to me mostly call centre jobs… I don’t know if I can handle that haha, but it’s better than nothing. Is it true that rent will be more expensive because I’m under 25? Car insurance doesn’t matter because I can’t drive anyway (though I should get a license I’m thinking), but why does an apartment cost more? Didn’t expect that one… Hmm… That CSO site is very useful as well…
I can’t believe cops make so much money! I have this sinking feeling going to university was pretty worthless in terms of securing any sort of futre… Especially considering my major… Anyway, thanks to all for your help.
Car insurance under 25 is enormous, apartments aren’t more expensive for young persons ofcourse, they always cost an arm and a leg (in Dublin, Galway and other cities anyhow).
Guards do a lot of overtime, that’s why they earn so much.
Sorry – I see I misread concerning rent. I thought your “under 25” comment extended to apartments and that temporarily horrified me…
Anyway, this is probably a stupid question, but does one need insurance for motorbikes or mopeds? If so, is it cheaper?
Also, does anyone have any experience teaching in Ireland? I figure that I could possibly try to be a French teacher somewhere, but would I require a teaching degree? (I do have a minor in French language if that helps)… I know that for language teachers often fluency in the target language is all that is required, though that might be more for teaching English in countries that very much want their students to learn it…
