>Is everyone in Romania, and is that a living wage there?
It's a very good living wage for Romania but low for what other IT people are earning, ~$2k monthly.
It's a very good living wage for Romania but low for what other IT people are earning, ~$2k monthly.
It has to be really worth the other party's time.
Not everyone can be a freelancer, that's one of the points behind the theory of the firm.
Technological advances can and have shifted the % of freelancers, but I doubt it will ever be near 100%.
I say that as both having been a freelancer, currently working semi-remote, and hiring freelancers (both locally and from India and Pakistan).
It's a very good wage for _surviving_.
After taking care of rent/utility bills there's not much left to go around for actually living.
Are you implying rent/bills in Romania are $1k/mo?
Romania is eastern Europe. It should be way cheaper than that.
Get a decent apartment, have some fun in your free time and 1000 does turn into a "barely getting by"-wage. 1.5k-2k is comfortable wage, but median is around 500-600 in most of eastern Europe afaik.
That's a very privileged view of "barely getting by". All you've described is someone spending everything they make on luxuries (nicer apartment, "having fun" - whatever that implies). By that token, someone could easily be "barely getting by" in San Francisco on an income of $400k by getting a nice 2 bedroom apartment to themselves in a hot location.
https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/in/Bucharest?displayCu...