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Latvian residents would like their monthly income to be at least EUR 1,216
BC, Riga, 20.09.2016.Print version
Latvian residents would like their monthly income to be at least EUR 1,216, according to a survey conducted by SKDS pollster writes LETA.
The average sum named
this year that Latvian residents would like to earn a month is the highest so
far in similar surveys, beating the earlier highest sum of EUR 1,146 registered
in 2008.
In 2000
residents said they could live with EUR 494 a month. From 2000 until the
economic crisis, the sum rose every year. The steepest rise was observed in
2007, when the necessary income rose by EUR 272 to EUR 963.
The
average necessary sum then declined after the economic crisis in 2008, reaching
EUR 844 in 2012, and then it rose again. Since 2012, the sum has climbed by 44%.