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Re: If Your Salary Is Between 300k & 500k Now In Nigeria, You Are Poor. by RevenuesBoost(f): 6:01am On Oct 28, 2024
Fat Lie
Re: If Your Salary Is Between 300k & 500k Now In Nigeria, You Are Poor. by wirinet(m): 6:02am On Oct 28, 2024
Henryfocoyo:
no dey answer all those people abg, always talking down on the currency
How many people are even seeing 100k a month in Nigeria.
Life is all about the class you place yourself, I can live a comfortable life right now and eat whatever I like for 2 months with 500k including my 3 three sisters, I don't go out like that so I don't drive all the time, why some people can't even manage 4m for a month for their up keep, life is different and that is how the cost of running individual lives are different, so don't judge others based on your extra spending lifestyle.
Is not enough for you doesn't mean is not gonna be enough for another person
Peace ✌️
E be like say APC don't inflict poverty mentality on Nigerians, so much so most people don't even understand what standard living means anymore. A family of 4 adults living on N500k for 2 months cannot live comfortably and eat anything they like. With that family income you would probably be living in a room and parlour in poor suburban neighbourhood, eating poor quality food that lacks protein on a diet of 101, flying danfo for transportation to work or business (that's assuming no school fees is involved).
A single egg is now now 300, a loaf of sliced bread is N1500. So how much will breakfast of eggs and bread with tea cost for a family of 4 adults? What's about a meal of beans and dodo, mind you derica of beans is N2500. A small bunch of plantain is N1500. We have not even considered cost of other ingredients like oil, pepper, etc., and gas to cook the beans. Rice and meat/chicken nko? The cost is the same. The N250,000 per month would barely be enough to feed well alone, not to talk of other expenses. I am sure if you guys should contact malaria or typhoid, na agbo or prayers you go use take cure am, because hospital bill for ordinary malaria and typhoid pass N10k per person. Original augmentine capsules now don reach N15k. If dem admit any of una for hospital for one night, just hold 50k.
Live a comfortable life and eat whatever you like indeed.
Re: If Your Salary Is Between 300k & 500k Now In Nigeria, You Are Poor. by famology(m): 6:20am On Oct 28, 2024
Tinubu is a big fooooooool. That's just about 200 dollars. Earning in naira now is a catastrophe.
Re: If Your Salary Is Between 300k & 500k Now In Nigeria, You Are Poor. by Clazzone(m): 6:30am On Oct 28, 2024
... and how many people are earning up to 500k in this current economy when companies are even retrenching workers to minimize cost. It's really scary
Re: If Your Salary Is Between 300k & 500k Now In Nigeria, You Are Poor. by Love800(m): 6:52am On Oct 28, 2024
I thought nigeria had money then?
ibabz:
welcome back to pre-1999.
Re: If Your Salary Is Between 300k & 500k Now In Nigeria, You Are Poor. by DeepSight(m): 6:54am On Oct 28, 2024
wirinet:
E be like say APC don't inflict poverty mentality on Nigerians, so much so most people don't even understand what standard living means anymore. A family of 4 adults living on N500k for 2 months cannot live comfortably and eat anything they like. With that family income you would probably be living in a room and parlour in poor suburban neighbourhood, eating poor quality food that lacks protein on a diet of 101, flying danfo for transportation to work or business (that's assuming no school fees is involved).
A single egg is now now 300, a loaf of sliced bread is N1500. So how much will breakfast of eggs and bread with tea cost for a family of 4 adults? What's about a meal of beans and dodo, mind you derica of beans is N2500. A small bunch of plantain is N1500. We have not even considered cost of other ingredients like oil, pepper, etc., and gas to cook the beans. Rice and meat/chicken nko? The cost is the same. The N250,000 per month would barely be enough to feed well alone, not to talk of other expenses. I am sure if you guys should contact malaria or typhoid, na agbo or prayers you go use take cure am, because hospital bill for ordinary malaria and typhoid pass N10k per person. Original augmentine capsules now don reach N15k. If dem admit any of una for hospital for one night, just hold 50k.
Live a comfortable life and eat whatever you like indeed.
He may be right in that "comfortable life" to him may mean the very fact that he has that one bedroom face me I slap you as opposed to living under the bridge. "Comfortable life" to him may be being able to afford one portion of rice at Iya Basira as opposed to nothing. "Comfortable life" to him may just be way, way, way, way, way beneath any reasonable standard that you and I may expect.

And make no mistake, such is reality.

Think of it this way. There are many people living a life with a salary below 100k a month right now. Many.

Just imagine what a sudden bumb to 250k would represent for those people. The truth is they will still be living a very impoverished life, but in their own minds, such would be a "comfortable life."

All na levels.

There is another point he is right on. Different lifestyles and levels of spending. Someone can earn N10 Million a month and consider himself broke. Certainly you will agree that if Dangote was earning that he will consider himself stark broke. For someone else, it would be paradise.
Re: If Your Salary Is Between 300k & 500k Now In Nigeria, You Are Poor. by harmargedon: 7:00am On Oct 28, 2024
mightyhaze:
Facts..

Fuel alone can take more than 200k,how much more feeding and others


I better pass my neighbors no mean say u rich.. more than 70 percent of Nigerians are poor now
can you define poverty for me?
Re: If Your Salary Is Between 300k & 500k Now In Nigeria, You Are Poor. by RichIgboBoy: 7:02am On Oct 28, 2024
SoftSport:
Clout chaser!

It's quite misleading to claim that someone earning a salary between 300k and 500k is poor.

Such statements seem designed to sensationalize issues and undermine the government's efforts.

While we acknowledge the economic challenges, a salary in that range can indeed provide a decent standard of living in Lagos or elsewhere in Nigeria.

It's essential to recognize the nuances of financial stability rather than reduce it to simplistic notions of wealth and poverty.

shocked
you’re naive, I doubt if you know what you are saying. How can you say a 300k earner can have a good standard of living?
Re: If Your Salary Is Between 300k & 500k Now In Nigeria, You Are Poor. by flyinnizam(m): 7:07am On Oct 28, 2024
Bamss1:
If 500k is poor those wey dey earn minimum wage nko?

I think your yardstick for the classification is wrong
extremely poor
Re: If Your Salary Is Between 300k & 500k Now In Nigeria, You Are Poor. by preciouswoman66(m): 7:12am On Oct 28, 2024
Kelklein:
Just to rephrase.. salary of 300k - 500k.. is just $175 - $195 in one month.. that is what people earn casually in one day in other decent climes.. doing blue-collar jobs not even white-collar jobs..

That guy speaking grammar above is a clown.. he doesn't deserve my quote.

According to a research by one institute in Lagos, only about 4% of Nigerians earn 200k and above. about 16% earn 100k - 200k.. 17% earn 50k and below. Over 20% earns nothing

It's a nation of highly impoverished populace.
Boss this your analysis no too get head oo

Why you go dey convert salary payment for Nigeria to US dollar to explain our harsh reality? Na the same economy we get with US?

Abi you know the kind bill wey dem dey chest for that side??

Internet and globalization na really a curse and blessings too. Imagine a landlords demanding for house rent price similar to the ones in the USA?

So in summary, your point is understood and true according to what's on ground in Nigeria but that analysis of comparing US dsalary to ours na wash

Also that guy above still has a point too.
Re: If Your Salary Is Between 300k & 500k Now In Nigeria, You Are Poor. by ibabz(m): 7:14am On Oct 28, 2024
Love800:
I thought nigeria had money then?
Pre-1999 is an era where we had the extremely rich and extremely poor people. That is the era where few people could afford cooking gas, buy brand new car, board airplanes, own a telephone, etc. just to mention a few. You can add yours.
Re: If Your Salary Is Between 300k & 500k Now In Nigeria, You Are Poor. by MOG4LIFE: 7:20am On Oct 28, 2024
Bros do the math. If you can write this long episode to defend the mess we are into, you can as well pick your calculator and punch the reality...

Let me tell you how to start. First Divide 500 or 300k by 31 days then continue from there. Make sure you are real in allocating your figures 😀😎

We are in deep mess bruh. Something needs to be done very urgently else we will all perish or slide into abject poverty before 2025 😎
SoftSport:
Clout chaser!

It's quite misleading to claim that someone earning a salary between 300k and 500k is poor.

Such statements seem designed to sensationalize issues and undermine the government's efforts.

While we acknowledge the economic challenges, a salary in that range can indeed provide a decent standard of living in Lagos or elsewhere in Nigeria.

It's essential to recognize the nuances of financial stability rather than reduce it to simplistic notions of wealth and poverty.

shocked
Re: If Your Salary Is Between 300k & 500k Now In Nigeria, You Are Poor. by Kelklein(m): 7:33am On Oct 28, 2024
preciouswoman66:
Boss this your analysis no too get head oo

Why you go dey convert salary payment for Nigeria to US dollar to explain our harsh reality? Na the same economy we get with US?

Abi you know the kind bill wey dem dey chest for that side??

Internet and globalization na really a curse and blessings too. Imagine a landlords demanding for house rent price similar to the ones in the USA?

So in summary, your point is understood and true according to what's on ground in Nigeria but that analysis of comparing US dsalary to ours na wash

Also that guy above still has a point too.
But me and you live in a country where 99.9% of the vehicles with all drive are imported. Shey na with Naira dem dey import am.

Where 99.9% of the clothes we all wear including the okrika are imported.. shey na with Naira dem dey import am.

Where 100% of the phones me and you are using to argue now are imported.

Where the current government is currently pricing our energy in dollars (the socalled international rate) converted..

Over 75% of our lives is run by that greenback, but when it comes to wages, you all think it's OK to settle for peanuts?!?!

Are you aware that Nigeria has one of the least paid people in the world (Google it) couple with one of the highest unemployment rate given the population.

When we say these thing, not for any personal reasons, just for those on Authority to know that they need to do better. The people deserve more than they get.
Re: If Your Salary Is Between 300k & 500k Now In Nigeria, You Are Poor. by nwirinedu(m): 7:34am On Oct 28, 2024
Says a miserable man
Re: If Your Salary Is Between 300k & 500k Now In Nigeria, You Are Poor. by valarinz: 8:00am On Oct 28, 2024
Sharpsharp00123:
so u pay house rent every month?
U pay school fees every month?

We know your type n I can bet u ain't even earning up to that in reality but all of Una want to form billionaire's online

We have family man earning 300k n they are good to go
Your comment just betrayed the fact you are still a dependant, you are not yet paying any bills or rent

Response to your question: yes he pays house rent every month, it's only when he keeps aside the portion for rent monthly that it'll get completed by the time it's due annually

Or is there any magical income that'll come in on the month of annual rent renewal to cover for it?
Re: If Your Salary Is Between 300k & 500k Now In Nigeria, You Are Poor. by jayce232: 8:11am On Oct 28, 2024
ruggedtimi:
How many persons dey earn more than 500k
That's why more than 70% of Nigerians are poor now & that is what the poster is trying say. The middle class has been eroded by this government.
Re: If Your Salary Is Between 300k & 500k Now In Nigeria, You Are Poor. by lebete3000: 8:14am On Oct 28, 2024
franchasofficia:
If a single young man with no wife, kids or parents to assist earns 300k a month, he is still a bit above the poverty line but very close to poverty line if he makes any slight mistake.


But any man with a wife and at least 1 child earning 300k a month in current day Nigeria is a poor man, his income will never sustain him and his family without depending on someone else or some illegal means of getting kickbacks from work. That is the sad truth in Nigeria now and reason many working class Nigerians engage in illegal transactions at their workplaces while some combine their job with online gambling, borrowing from friends, online begging, begging friends abroad, etc to augment their salary while you think they are okay
I happen to earn 400k/month and single as fvck. Women no rate me at all cos dem no know my level as I no dey package myself at all.

I guess I actually don't know what God has done for me be that oh
Re: If Your Salary Is Between 300k & 500k Now In Nigeria, You Are Poor. by lebete3000: 8:39am On Oct 28, 2024
RevenuesBoost:
Fat Lie
You this girl you no want make I boost you with my booster wey dey inside my trouser?
Re: If Your Salary Is Between 300k & 500k Now In Nigeria, You Are Poor. by Love800(m): 8:40am On Oct 28, 2024
Damn!
Nigeria is ruined!
ibabz:
Pre-1999 is an era where we had the extremely rich and extremely poor people. That is the era where few people could afford cooking gas, buy brand new car, board airplanes, own a telephone, etc. just to mention a few. You can add yours.
Re: If Your Salary Is Between 300k & 500k Now In Nigeria, You Are Poor. by Truf: 8:45am On Oct 28, 2024
Difrent:
See how you still dey look foolish, chicken change that you don't earn abi

Dont LIE, you don't

The economy can't take all these figures you FOOLS bandy around....you will end up having few people at work and most people out of work and nobody wants that...... Let wages that can make most people remain on their job be the priority and not fueling some idiots ego
Foolish church rat, I’m not about to measure deeks with you, your mentality says it all. You’re an animal to think you’d go far in life with 500k monthly. Mumu child, you’re still being spoon-fed so I don’t blame you, it’s your malnourished father I blame. Can you afford a bicycle, let’s not talk about a vehicle? I won’t bother asking if you can pay your one room’s rent cos you still squat with your poverty-stricken parents and siblings who are probably tired of your lazyass. 500k is chicken change right now, foolish boy! I’m not surprised, imbe wey still support Buhari! Sense is extremely far from you. Baboon feeling funky. Quote me when your learn how to punctuate properly… Poverty-stricken animal!
Re: If Your Salary Is Between 300k & 500k Now In Nigeria, You Are Poor. by Askme2020(m): 8:54am On Oct 28, 2024
Originakalokalo:
I hardly comment....

This is a sad reality.

I am in this range with 3 children....

Remove 300k from that post. Even with 500k, and three children, it is well with you....
Same here. With three children and average 400k per term for school fee(3months) 100k monthly for their provisions, manage 200k for household feeding and expenses, paying a 2bedroom rent of 600k, transportation 100k per month.
Entertainment, vacation, and other minor things are not included
Now tell me how 500k is a enough monthly
If you earn 500k monthly that is 6m per month.
All the expenses I listed up there is roughly 6.6m. per year.
Re: If Your Salary Is Between 300k & 500k Now In Nigeria, You Are Poor. by authority2006(m): 9:01am On Oct 28, 2024
Boxnaijatv:
Wahala!!! "If your salary is between 300k and 500k in Nigeria you are no longer in the middle class". - Man says


Fact or cap?
It is a fact. Even if people who are earning more than that are still not finding it easy to pay bills and save/invest
Re: If Your Salary Is Between 300k & 500k Now In Nigeria, You Are Poor. by authority2006(m): 9:06am On Oct 28, 2024
SoftSport:
Clout chaser!

It's quite misleading to claim that someone earning a salary between 300k and 500k is poor.

Such statements seem designed to sensationalize issues and undermine the government's efforts.


While we acknowledge the economic challenges, a salary in that range can indeed provide a decent standard of living in Lagos or elsewhere in Nigeria.

It's essential to recognize the nuances of financial stability rather than reduce it to simplistic notions of wealth and poverty.

shocked
"Undermining the government efforts" statement gave you up. Government efforts that is putting more people in poverty zone? I earn that much but Tinubu has turned living in present Nigeria into struggle and nightmare.
That amount 300k-500k will be huge to those who don't earn that much or close to that, but it doesn't have much value under Tpain
Re: If Your Salary Is Between 300k & 500k Now In Nigeria, You Are Poor. by authority2006(m): 9:11am On Oct 28, 2024
wirinet:
E be like say APC don't inflict poverty mentality on Nigerians, so much so most people don't even understand what standard living means anymore. A family of 4 adults living on N500k for 2 months cannot live comfortably and eat anything they like. With that family income you would probably be living in a room and parlour in poor suburban neighbourhood, eating poor quality food that lacks protein on a diet of 101, flying danfo for transportation to work or business (that's assuming no school fees is involved).
A single egg is now now 300, a loaf of sliced bread is N1500. So how much will breakfast of eggs and bread with tea cost for a family of 4 adults? What's about a meal of beans and dodo, mind you derica of beans is N2500. A small bunch of plantain is N1500. We have not even considered cost of other ingredients like oil, pepper, etc., and gas to cook the beans. Rice and meat/chicken nko? The cost is the same. The N250,000 per month would barely be enough to feed well alone, not to talk of other expenses. I am sure if you guys should contact malaria or typhoid, na agbo or prayers you go use take cure am, because hospital bill for ordinary malaria and typhoid pass N10k per person. Original augmentine capsules now don reach N15k. If dem admit any of una for hospital for one night, just hold 50k.
Live a comfortable life and eat whatever you like indeed.
He's capping. He thinks we're talking about the prices of items under Buhari or Jonathan. The prices of food now is now like times 3 or 4 compared to under Buhari.
Even if he manages to survive with 250k per month, is that going to all? He won't bother about saving or investing? He will just be living from hand to mouth, paycheck to paycheck?
Re: If Your Salary Is Between 300k & 500k Now In Nigeria, You Are Poor. by authority2006(m): 9:13am On Oct 28, 2024
harmargedon:
can you define poverty for me?
May be you should tell us your own definition of poverty if you don't agree with the ones you are taught in school or the ones on the internet
Re: If Your Salary Is Between 300k & 500k Now In Nigeria, You Are Poor. by authority2006(m): 9:18am On Oct 28, 2024
greenermodels:
Na only God knows how we de take survive these days.
Like you called it, it is surviving which is the basic. It is not living which is the most desirable. Nigerians are surviving, not living. What a shame
Re: If Your Salary Is Between 300k & 500k Now In Nigeria, You Are Poor. by RichIgboBoy: 9:19am On Oct 28, 2024
Sharpsharp00123:
so u pay house rent every month?
U pay school fees every month?

We know your type n I can bet u ain't even earning up to that in reality but all of Una want to form billionaire's online

We have family man earning 300k n they are good to go
so you save for rent? Nawa o
Re: If Your Salary Is Between 300k & 500k Now In Nigeria, You Are Poor. by Ennyjude(f): 9:20am On Oct 28, 2024
Normally we are poor
Re: If Your Salary Is Between 300k & 500k Now In Nigeria, You Are Poor. by Ennyjude(f): 9:22am On Oct 28, 2024
greenermodels:
Na only God knows how we de take survive these days.
I'm telling you
Re: If Your Salary Is Between 300k & 500k Now In Nigeria, You Are Poor. by preciouswoman66(m): 9:25am On Oct 28, 2024
Kelklein:
But me and you live in a country where 99.9% of the vehicles with all drive are imported. Shey na with Naira dem dey import am.

Where 99.9% of the clothes we all wear including the okrika are imported.. shey na with Naira dem dey import am.

Where 100% of the phones me and you are using to argue now are imported.

Where the current government is currently pricing our energy in dollars (the socalled international rate) converted..

Over 75% of our lives is run by that greenback, but when it comes to wages, you all think it's OK to settle for peanuts?!?!

Are you aware that Nigeria has one of the least paid people in the world (Google it) couple with one of the highest unemployment rate given the population.

When we say these thing, not for any personal reasons, just for those on Authority to know that they need to do better. The people deserve more than they get.
Thinking like this we lead our country to high crime rates and other bad activities. How do you expect companies [local ones] to pay USA equivalent to people who lives in "third world" countries? Not that they[company] make a lot of profit

These are result of globalization and the internet. Many people[including me but I'm different cause I ask more for international companies and not the local ones] in Nigeria has seen how much their mate earned abroad hence the demand of equivalent in USD payment in USA and co. But that isn't the issue here

One of the reasons why we use USD for lot of things in Nigeria is cause we're import dependent country with little export returns to finance our lifestyle in the country.

So for the USD issue in Nigeria, we[individuals and government officials] need to find way to sell/trade values in the international market to make our currently stronger hence reducing exchange rates.
Re: If Your Salary Is Between 300k & 500k Now In Nigeria, You Are Poor. by harmargedon: 9:38am On Oct 28, 2024
authority2006:
May be you should tell us your own definition of poverty if you don't agree with the ones you are taught in school or the ones on the internet
let's all agree that you don't know what it is.
Re: If Your Salary Is Between 300k & 500k Now In Nigeria, You Are Poor. by Quebec91(m): 9:52am On Oct 28, 2024
cheesy
Day169:
Mods!
.. this 'vawulence' is just too much! I only asked a "kweshun." It's a breech of community rules!! grin
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