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Saturday, April 26, 2008

Can A Family Man With Salary RM3,000 Survive In Malaysia?

Can a family man with salary RM3,000 survive in Malaysia?
Let's do some simple calculations here.

In Malaysia, the average family income is RM3,000/month (where father works, mother doesn't).

I understand there are many families whose monthly income does not reach RM3,000 but to make things simple, let's take RM3,000 as the figure.

Ok, let's start rolling with a family which has papa, mama, 1 daughter and 1 son. Calculation starts...

Electricity and water bill: RM100
(no air-cond, no home theatre, no water heater...)

Phone bill (Telekom): RM100

Meals for a happy family: RM775
(3 meals on RM25/day where RM25 for 4 persons)

Papa makan / teh-tarik during working hrs: RM155
(RM5/day)

Car repayment: RM400
(a proton saga aeroback, 7 yrs repayment)

Petrol (living in city, traffic-jam): RM300
(go to work, bring son to school, only can afford one car running)

Insurance: RM650
(kids, wife and myself)

House repayment: RM750
(low cost housing repayment for 30 yrs, retired still have to work to pay!)

Tuition: RM80
(got that cheap? I don't think so...)

Older children pocket money @ school: RM20
(RM1/day, eat bread?)

School fees: RM30
(enough?)

School books and etc: RM100
(always got extra to pay in school)

Younger children milk powder: RM50
(cannot have the DHA, BHA, PHA one....expensive)

Miscellaneous: RM100
(shampoo, rice, sauce, toilet paper)

Oh wait!!! I have to stop here, so...
no Astro,
no movie @ cinema,
no DVD,
no CD,
no online,
cannot KFC,
cannot McDonald,
cannot go Park walk during weekend (petrol expensive),
no chit chat on phone with grandparents, and etc...

Let's use a calculator to total up....RM3,610 already!

EPF belum potong, income tax lagi....already RM3,610...

How to survive???

Let's think about it (lu pikir lah sendiri...!!!)

2 comments:

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M I A said...

yeah..that's damn right! jom melabur..

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