₦airaland Forum

mechoau:
As i am typing like this, i am at work in Stockport, my shift is 7:00- 22:00pm which is 15hrs and the nature of the job is support work, just sitting down after morning personal care with just four (4) citizen and we are just 3 staff on duty.

Do you know how much today pay is? During the week, the pay is £10.90 and on Sunday it’s double pay in Stockport, now today pay is £21.80 per hour, now do your maths

15hours multiply by £21.80= £327 for today. Please convert this to Nigeria and how much is that in naira? Keep deceiving yourself with your poor idea.

I earn above £2500 monthly and my shared rent monthly is just £320 with bills. Just keep deceiving yourself


For proof, i have attached one of my old payslip to show per rate so you won’t think I’m just bragging with lies. Now i worked yesterday long day, worked today and I’m still working tomorrow…


Note: my permanent job pay 14:80 per hr so wise up

Hello sir and please sir, any little assistance no matter how small from u will be highly appreciated by me.

Winnin009:
What costs exactly?! Lol. Is it fuel? It’s just as expensive.

Is it light? I can categorically tell you that you pay more here because you pay in several occasions and don’t even see it.

Is it water? You genuinely think it’s cheaper to dig a borehole than pay for water running from the government?

Or is it security? Or rent? Rent in Nigerian cities are just as expensive as any major city in the world.

So what exactly makes life cheaper? Because you can cut corners once in a while? Lol.

You do know those corners are why our society is like this? Nations that don’t cut corners have a working system to show for it.

So once again; what makes life cheaper here?

Many Nairalanders are indeed battling with comprehensive issue, reason I hardly reply some people here.

Read the last paragraph in my previous post, I said "it is cheaper for those who has tasted both side but expensive for those living and earning in Nigeria". You don't expect someone who pays about $1000 per month for apartment in US not to see 1m apartment per annum in Nigeria as cheap. For instance, if you want to live in a decent apartment in New York, rent alone will chop off about 40% of your income per month. Other utility bills may chop off another 40% if care is not taking.

Whereas in Nigeria, if you don't live pass tour level, you can comfortably pay your rent with 3 months salary at most, which is about 25%. But that doesn't mean Nigeria is easy for low income earners, because alot of people in this category cannot live a decent life like those earning minimum wage abroad, which I had clearly stated in the post you quoted.

psalmsjob:
I'm posting this as a response to the topic that made Nairaland front page yesterday; "See What Someone Bought With An Hour Minimum Wage In The UK £10", the link: https://www.nairaland.com/7929193/see-what-someone-bought-hour

UK & US ARE OVER-RATED NIGERIA IS STILL BETTER in terms of cost of living see a practical example why doing a price comparison: 1 pound to 1 naira today is N1,001 so are you saying with £10 x N1,001 = N10,001 you cannot buy everything in that basket and collect change in Nigeria today?

1 Sliced Bread = N800
2 Spaghetti = N1400
1 Gesha = N600
1 live chicken = N3,000
1 75cl soya Oil = N1,400
1 Midium size Butter = N600
2 Gino Tomato paste = N1,000

Total = N8,800 so your change is N1,200 that's if you exchange pound to naira at offical rate and buying at the most expensive stores or high brands. If you exchange at black market rate and buy at public market "days" you will collect as much as N6,000 after buying everything in that basket....that's about £6 left.

LET'S JUST THANK GOD FOR WHAT WE HAVE AND STOP LOOKING AT AND GLORIFYING ANOTHER MAN'S LAND MORE THAN OUR OWN....OUR OWN NA OUR OWN O

How much is an hour minimum wage in Nigeria?
Don't mislead people in the name trying to prove a point that doesn't exist

mbaise1000:
How about the poster show us what one hour wage in nigeria will buy?
These are some of the reasons why those of us that didn't go to any school doesn't regret not going to School, seeing how those that will claim being the most educated and intelligent amongst us reason

U are the most unintelligent being right now.
Those education makes all of us reason the same way? Your opinion is your opinion while others are entitled to theirs.

May nigeria happen to you and your generation

May what innocent nigerians are experiencing under tinubu be the lot of you and your generation forever

May you not experience mercy

May your case be tackled by propaganda

May tinubu inflicted hardship on innocent nigerians never seize on you and your generation.

Definitely , cost of living is higher in UK than Nigeria but never standard of living !!!

psalmsjob:
I'm posting this as a response to the topic that made Nairaland front page yesterday; "See What Someone Bought With An Hour Minimum Wage In The UK £10", the link: https://www.nairaland.com/7929193/see-what-someone-bought-hour

UK & US ARE OVER-RATED NIGERIA IS STILL BETTER in terms of cost of living see a practical example why doing a price comparison: 1 pound to 1 naira today is N1,001 so are you saying with £10 x N1,001 = N10,001 you cannot buy everything in that basket and collect change in Nigeria today?

1 Sliced Bread = N800
2 Spaghetti = N1400
1 Gesha = N600
1 live chicken = N3,000
1 75cl soya Oil = N1,400
1 Midium size Butter = N600
2 Gino Tomato paste = N1,000

Total = N8,800 so your change is N1,200 that's if you exchange pound to naira at offical rate and buying at the most expensive stores or high brands. If you exchange at black market rate and buy at public market "days" you will collect as much as N6,000 after buying everything in that basket....that's about £6 left.

LET'S JUST THANK GOD FOR WHAT WE HAVE AND STOP LOOKING AT AND GLORIFYING ANOTHER MAN'S LAND MORE THAN OUR OWN....OUR OWN NA OUR OWN O

Compare that to the minimum wage of N30k/m here to 10pounds/hr over there.

Shut up. Exchange rate kill you there.

Oga the food are way cheaper, can you buy bread 10naira

psalmsjob:
I'm posting this as a response to the topic that made Nairaland front page yesterday; "See What Someone Bought With An Hour Minimum Wage In The UK £10", the link: https://www.nairaland.com/7929193/see-what-someone-bought-hour

UK & US ARE OVER-RATED NIGERIA IS STILL BETTER in terms of cost of living see a practical example why doing a price comparison: 1 pound to 1 naira today is N1,001 so are you saying with £10 x N1,001 = N10,001 you cannot buy everything in that basket and collect change in Nigeria today?

1 Sliced Bread = N800
2 Spaghetti = N1400
1 Gesha = N600
1 live chicken = N3,000
1 75cl soya Oil = N1,400
1 Midium size Butter = N600
2 Gino Tomato paste = N1,000

Total = N8,800 so your change is N1,200 that's if you exchange pound to naira at offical rate and buying at the most expensive stores or high brands. If you exchange at black market rate and buy at public market "days" you will collect as much as N6,000 after buying everything in that basket....that's about £6 left.

LET'S JUST THANK GOD FOR WHAT WE HAVE AND STOP LOOKING AT AND GLORIFYING ANOTHER MAN'S LAND MORE THAN OUR OWN....OUR OWN NA OUR OWN O

psalmsjob:
I'm posting this as a response to the topic that made Nairaland front page yesterday; "See What Someone Bought With An Hour Minimum Wage In The UK £10", the link: https://www.nairaland.com/7929193/see-what-someone-bought-hour

UK & US ARE OVER-RATED NIGERIA IS STILL BETTER in terms of cost of living see a practical example why doing a price comparison: 1 pound to 1 naira today is N1,001 so are you saying with £10 x N1,001 = N10,001 you cannot buy everything in that basket and collect change in Nigeria today?

1 Sliced Bread = N800
2 Spaghetti = N1400
1 Gesha = N600
1 live chicken = N3,000
1 75cl soya Oil = N1,400
1 Midium size Butter = N600
2 Gino Tomato paste = N1,000

Total = N8,800 so your change is N1,200 that's if you exchange pound to naira at offical rate and buying at the most expensive stores or high brands. If you exchange at black market rate and buy at public market "days" you will collect as much as N6,000 after buying everything in that basket....that's about £6 left.

LET'S JUST THANK GOD FOR WHAT WE HAVE AND STOP LOOKING AT AND GLORIFYING ANOTHER MAN'S LAND MORE THAN OUR OWN....OUR OWN NA OUR OWN O

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THIS DEFENCE MECHNISM IS FROM THE PIT OF HELL, THE CHEAPEST SLIZE BREAD YOU CAN GET NOW IS N1,200. IF YOU ARE TO MEASURE IT, BY THE LAME WAY YOU JUST DID, I CAN ASSURE YOU THAT AN AVERAGE NIGERIA WILL HAVE TO WORK HIS/HER ASS OUT TO MAKE N12,000 IN A DAY, IF WE ARE TO TRUELY CALCALCULATE THOSE ITEMS WITH THE CURRENT PRICE REALITY YOU WILL DISCOVER THAT THE WHOLE N12,000 CANT BUY ALL THOSE THINGS, CURRENTLY A LIVE CHICKEN GOES FOR N10,000 - N15,000.

THATS JUST FOR AN HOUR WORK, MEANING THAT THE FELLOW CAN STILL WORK FOR AT LEAST 2 -3 MORE HOURS IN A DAY. EITHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT, LIFE IS STILL FAR BETTER THERE THAN HERE.

Solid calculations, though food cost is exaggerated. The thing people have several core reasons they travelled out, for some depression of joblessness, they will be happy that they see things doing, for some majorly to gather money they will work their ass out, link up like mad and save like crazy. For some it's for good amenities and the UK status - to enjoy fast internet and electricity, it will boost their online productivity and creativity.
If you travelled out only because of food, you have definitely wasted your money, you could buy land and have your own farm plus poultry farming and you will be smiling while others are crying
In Nigeria today, it seems they want to destroy the middle class absolutely, so it's either you're living in lekki having a big business in computer village or elsewhere or you're living in less developed areas having a decent farm and selling your produce at exorbitant prices.
The mass migration to UK for example targeted mostly middleclass I think, so all in all, if you know what you want, see it and go for it.

psalmsjob:
You guys focus on the money earned but not on what the money earned can purchase....the purchasing power of the money. See another analysis for you to stop Lmao

If our bobo londoner works for the standard 8 hours per day and earning £10 per hour and he works for 5 days a week; he would have earned = £10 x 8 hours = £80/ day x 5 days/week = £400/week x 4 weeks = £1,600 per month. With this earning bobo londoner is taking nothing home at month end and cannot afford to buy that kind of £10 food every day if he does he might be in debt see why:

Now for bobo pays average of £1,480 for house rent monthly and pays average of £140 for transportation to work. That's £1,480 + £140 = £1,600 per month ONLY. If bobo londoner tries to buy his £10 food everyday as man must wak that's £10 x 30 days = £300 per month.

Therefore, bobo londoner must werk on Saturdays to survive that's £80 x 6 days × 4 weeks = £1,920 - £1,480 - £140 - £300 = £0.00 per month

So Bobo Londoner must werk on Sundays to have £80 at every month end

Workers in Nigeria do not work on Saturdays and Sundays before you start your comparison again

Dont mind them, people that have never left Nigeria but making claiming's on things they know nothing about. The most important reason to live and work outside Nigeria is because of the favorable exchange rate of foreign currencies against the Naira. You work out there and send whatever you make back home, and it becomes BIG money, then you can execute various projects and oppress the ones back home. But the truth remains that the cost of living in Nigeria is still one of the lowest anywhere in the world, and am not even speaking of living in Lagos, Abuja or PH. I am speaking of places like Ibadan, Enugu or Kaduna.

Now when it gets to the quality of the food been consumed, you would get healthier food back in Nigeria, not the junk that western foods are made of. Yes, Nigeria does that it challenges and one of which is that almost useless currency, the naira, which implies that the earning power of those that make naira reduce daily, which is a bitter reality. But that does not erase the fcat that the cost of living in Nigeria is way cheaper than most western nations.

psalmsjob:
You guys focus on the money earned but not on what the money earned can purchase....the purchasing power of the money. See another analysis for you to stop Lmao

If our bobo londoner works for the standard 8 hours per day and earning £10 per hour and he works for 5 days a week; he would have earned = £10 x 8 hours = £80/ day x 5 days/week = £400/week x 4 weeks = £1,600 per month. With this earning bobo londoner is taking nothing home at month end and cannot afford to buy that kind of £10 food every day if he does he might be in debt see why:

Now for bobo pays average of £1,480 for house rent monthly and pays average of £140 for transportation to work. That's £1,480 + £140 = £1,600 per month ONLY. If bobo londoner tries to buy his £10 food everyday as man must wak that's £10 x 30 days = £300 per month.

Therefore, bobo londoner must werk on Saturdays to survive that's £80 x 6 days × 4 weeks = £1,920 - £1,480 - £140 - £300 = £0.00 per month

So Bobo Londoner must werk on Sundays to have £80 at every month end

Workers in Nigeria do not work on Saturdays and Sundays before you start your comparison again

wrongnumber:
That is not my message.

I was only trying to let you know how you can narrow down the average hourly wage in Nigeria.

People earn more than 1600 in UK and also people earn over 30k in Nigeria.

your hourly rate will be your accumulated salary at the end of the month

People who earn more than 1600 in the UK and people who earn more than 30k in Nigeria, will live according to their pay and standard of living in their respective countries

someone earning 5k pounds in the UK and someone earning 600k per month in Nigeria will have more disposable income and will live well compared to someone who earns 1600 pounds and 30k in their respective countries.. it is just common sense, that is why it makes no sense to compare different salaries in 2 different countries.

The more the higher standard of living, the more employers will pay to meet up with the high standard of living

if city A is more expensive than city B, employers will pay more salaries to employees working in city A than in city B

Even if both employees in city A and B earn the same salary, the employee in City B will live a more better life than an employee in city A because city B is cheap

The same happens if you compare Uk and US

salaries in the US are more higher than salaries in the UK for the same role. so because of living cost, employers in the US pay more than employers in the UK.

chymeze:
Lol you can't just analyze the amount spent on food in isolation. It'd be irrational and illogical to do that. You have to place it side by side with how much they earn! Someone who earns over #3million naira a month as in the UK would see #180k a month food as a piece of cake while someone who earns #250-300k per month like in your country Nigeria would see such #180k spending on food as outrageous. Please not everyone has that poor mentality like most Nigerians. In the US I resided, my accomodation cost per month was about $1300 which is like over #1.3million per month for accomodation alone. But I never felt this because I earned way above $8k per month. So please get your analysis right.

Hello sir and please sir am just a primary School teacher who earns peanut monthly. Any little assistance from u, no matter how small it is will be highly appreciated.

OP you no get sense, wallahi suppose you dey near me write this rubbish na cord for kiss your back.mumu man

Mandesz:
U are the most unintelligent being right now.
Those education makes all of us reason the same way? Your opinion is your opinion while others are entitled to theirs.

There are certain group of people that are not entitled to their opinion, mad people, dead people and stupid people and fools.
BTW how about you tell me the reason you think and say that I am unintelligent, how about you too tell me what an hours pay can buy in nigeria? Compared to what an hour's pay in the UK can buy

motymop:
this does not make sense

they are earning in pounds and it makes no sense to convert to Naira because they are not spending in Naira in the uk

The person receiving 10 pounds per hour in the UK is also struggling like the person receiving 30k per month in nigeria.

Well of course the costs of living is less here. But we also make less here in nigeria.

The greatest scam in this country is salary earning. If we can also implement a hourly based payment method here, things would change a lot.

But the politrickians know this. And they don't want to implement this cos it would affect their embezzling attempts a lot.

We have to fight for it ourselves.

Can you earn that £10 easily in an hour in Nigeria? Smh

psalmsjob:
I'm posting this as a response to the topic that made Nairaland front page yesterday; "See What Someone Bought With An Hour Minimum Wage In The UK £10", the link: https://www.nairaland.com/7929193/see-what-someone-bought-hour

UK & US ARE OVER-RATED NIGERIA IS STILL BETTER in terms of cost of living see a practical example why doing a price comparison: 1 pound to 1 naira today is N1,001 so are you saying with £10 x N1,001 = N10,001 you cannot buy everything in that basket and collect change in Nigeria today?

1 Sliced Bread = N800
2 Spaghetti = N1400
1 Gesha = N600
1 live chicken = N3,000
1 75cl soya Oil = N1,400
1 Midium size Butter = N600
2 Gino Tomato paste = N1,000

Total = N8,800 so your change is N1,200 that's if you exchange pound to naira at offical rate and buying at the most expensive stores or high brands. If you exchange at black market rate and buy at public market "days" you will collect as much as N6,000 after buying everything in that basket....that's about £6 left.

LET'S JUST THANK GOD FOR WHAT WE HAVE AND STOP LOOKING AT AND GLORIFYING ANOTHER MAN'S LAND MORE THAN OUR OWN....OUR OWN NA OUR OWN O

psalmsjob:
I'm posting this as a response to the topic that made Nairaland front page yesterday; "See What Someone Bought With An Hour Minimum Wage In The UK £10", the link: https://www.nairaland.com/7929193/see-what-someone-bought-hour

UK & US ARE OVER-RATED NIGERIA IS STILL BETTER in terms of cost of living see a practical example why doing a price comparison: 1 pound to 1 naira today is N1,001 so are you saying with £10 x N1,001 = N10,001 you cannot buy everything in that basket and collect change in Nigeria today?

1 Sliced Bread = N800
2 Spaghetti = N1400
1 Gesha = N600
1 live chicken = N3,000
1 75cl soya Oil = N1,400
1 Midium size Butter = N600
2 Gino Tomato paste = N1,000

Total = N8,800 so your change is N1,200 that's if you exchange pound to naira at offical rate and buying at the most expensive stores or high brands. If you exchange at black market rate and buy at public market "days" you will collect as much as N6,000 after buying everything in that basket....that's about £6 left.

LET'S JUST THANK GOD FOR WHAT WE HAVE AND STOP LOOKING AT AND GLORIFYING ANOTHER MAN'S LAND MORE THAN OUR OWN....OUR OWN NA OUR OWN O

Your leaders are playing kalo-kalo with your destiny, you are on Nairaland claiming it is better in Nigeria than UK and US.

Have you heard of a working person in the UK or USA begging someone in Nigeria for money to pay bills?

Do you know how many Nigerians abroad no longer pick up calls from people in Nigeria (supposedly working) because they cannot make ends meet?

Diaspora remittance to Nigeria from these people living "hard" lives abroad with no spare income is $22bn in 2022, a key source of forex keeping Nigeria's heamorraging economy alive.

AsaBlackheart:
Well of course the costs of living is less here. But we also make less here in nigeria.

The greatest scam in this country is salary earning. If we can also implement a hourly based payment method here, things would change a lot.

But the politrickians know this. And they don't want to implement this cos it would affect their embezzling attempts a lot.

We have to fight for it ourselves.

An hourly based payment does not mean you will be paid per hour, it means that you will be paid for the number of hours you work at the end of the month. that is why in some jobs they clock in and out so that the total number of hours you worked can be calculated and you will be paid according to the total number of hours you worked. work per hours jobs are called time jobs and are mostly for lower paid jobs.

Most high paid job all over the world are salaried.

CHRISTFUCKER:
Nigeria is a forking shit hole


I rather be in a prison in the UK than a shit hole ruled by a pissing retard

That UK prison you shall find

Difrent:
Even though Migration is as old as humanity Nigerians are making it look like the next Gold rush.
In the past 2 years UK has made over 50billion pounds from Nigerians alone to shore up it's ailing economy and to keep the economy running they make sure they are stuck in jobs their own citizens refused to do while paying heavy taxes at the end of the day....Nigeria and Nigerian economy loses

Those I'm mad at are those doctors that got subsidized medical education and ran to UK to practice....why didn't you go to study medicine in UK?....just game our system.
If you want to practice in UK.....study medicine in the UK too.....abi does it make sense to want to be treating whites but use blacks to train
Ungrateful lot

Many of them won't like your post ... Selfish people , only think about themselves

sinero:
Please tell all d senseless noise makers o. Always looking for opportunities to complain about Nigeria. Pay 1k for proof of ownership revalidation, they are making noise. Go and see what they pay on road tax and insurance on their vehicles every month then you'll know that no place like home. Get the 2k pounds per month and see how direct debit of bills will reduce it to less than 100 pounds some hour after credit alert. Bloody clueless noise makers preferring to be a Prisoner abroad than a free man in their home.

So all your leaders dey senseless too? GMB and his kids dey stay for UK
PBAT japad to US. Now lives in France and UK. His kids live in US. Lol

Chinjo2:
It's not only about cost of living. It is also about living in a country where things works. Where the government understand their responsibilities to the people.
We don't need academic statistics. My brother who travelled to the UK 5 years ago has completed two mansions here in Nigeria.
He could not even build one house in his 15 years of working in a federal government agency in Nigeria and you are here talking about cost of living.

Two mansions in 5years... Na drug dealer be that ... Oyinbo sef no dey build two mansion in five years... Why he no carry you go too make you sef build 5 mansion... Eyin werey...

Difrent:
Other workers are other workers. Doctors are Doctors
It costs so much to train one. Government subsidized medical education for the good of Nigerians not for the good of UK.
Dont tell me about wages... Doctors are among the best paid Nigerians.
Equipment?...not bad. (But you trained with those equipments manage it to work too)
Working conditions?...they have one of the best in the country
And like I said
It will make more sense if you want go work in the UK to train as a doctor in the UK too
Why do you think even UK citizens are not even studying medicine.....it's the cost
The UK health system is heavily reliant on medical workers from India and Nigeria.
The UK government is gaming it's two biggest former colony

Nigerians are not really smart ..

Mindlog:
In those 2 years, how much have Nigerians living in the UK remitted back to Nigeria and would still remit for more years to come?

You should be "madder" at Nigerian politicians who also got subsidized education at different levels, they steal public funds and run to the UK anc other Western countries to enjoy world class healthcare services and most times offered by Nigerian healthcare practitioners they frustrated ouf of Nigeria!

I support any healthcare professional who wants to japa, anybody whey no like am make im vex go write JAMB and study the related courses to show us how patriotic he or she is.

How much the people you know there son send give you

GreenWorld:
The real message is not really cost of living, but what an hour wage can buy. Can average Nigeria hourly daily wage buy those things in the basket?

So you no fit buy am

Fearyourcreator:
How much the people you know there son send give you

I live here in the UK.

Mindlog:
If you are earning £10 per hour and working 40 hrs in a week, in 4 weeks it will be £1,600

UK govt will not tax the first £1,047.50 because that is your tax-free allowance and would only tax the balance of £552.50.

For that £552.50 the income tax will be £110.35 while the National Insurance will be £66.3, it then means the total tax to pay is £176.65

The estimated take-home pay for the month will be £1,423.35

NIGERIAns can't pay this to government lailai

Mindlog:
I live here in the UK.

How many you don help back home and how many mansion you don build

LikeAking:
U are a big illiterate..

Confamed!

What is illiterate

descarado:
And you don't pay any VAT in Nigerian goods you purchase?

When l read somewhere that Nigerians are the most insecure people on earth, I never took it serious but seeing posts like this, I believe that 100%.
This comment is born out of nothing but jealousy for fellow Nigerians living abroad.

Modern slavery no be here ooo

Fearyourcreator:
How many you don help back home and how many mansion you don build

I have never helped anyone back home and nor even built a room in Nigeria.