BGN 1,454 is needed for 1 worker in Bulgaria to live normally. This is shown by the KNSB data for the last quarter.
The allowance for a three-member family (two working people + a child up to 14 years old) is BGN 2,616.
In the last quarter, the amount of income needed to support life rose by 1.1%. The annual growth is 4.3%.
Growth was also observed in some products from the small consumer basket, with the highest percentage increase in minced meat, pork, cabbage and apples.
There is a reduction in sugar, eggs, oil, cucumbers and fresh milk.
“At the moment, 55% is the ratio of the minimum wage to the living wage, and this can be very easily seen by comparing other countries. For example, in Bulgaria you have to work until May 7 – a minimum wage worker to receive the minimum salary of a worker in Luxembourg. He must work until April 13. In Bulgaria, the 20 essential goods without which our table can be bought 8.2 times neighboring Romania can be bought 15 times. In Germany, employees of the Ministry of Agriculture can enter a supermarket and fill 33 trolleys with these 20 essential goods. I’m talking about bread, flour, oil, apples – everything we use on a daily basis “, said Lyuboslav Kostov from KNSB.
