The minimum wage, however, accounts for roughly half of the average wage \u2013 hence half of what is necessary for a decent living.<\/p>\n
Notably, the necessary revenues are calculated for families that do not own a house \u2013 which is the case for, according to Eurostat, only 5.7% of the Romanian population.<\/p>\n
For the reference family, consisting of two adults and two children, the monthly requirement increased from RON 11,370 in 2025 to RON 11,668 this year, respectively by 2.6%.<\/p>\n
The largest component of the budget is housing, estimated at RON 3,105 per month. However, in Romania, 94.3% of the population lived in personal property (according to Eurostat\/INSSE data for 2024), which places the country in first place in the European Union in terms of the share of homeowners.<\/p>\n
Food costs RON 2,429, and clothing and footwear, RON 1,143, according to the same analysis.<\/p>\n
The rise in consumer goods\u2019 prices was partly offset by the lower financial cost of housing. The expenses for the purchase of a home decreased by 1.9% due to the decrease in the average effective annual interest rate from 7.55% in September 2025 to 6.35% in September 2026. This decrease in interest was more than sufficient to compensate for both the significant increase in the purchase price of homes (12.1% on average, according to Eurostat) and the devaluation of the national currency against the euro (3.4%, according to BNR data).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The minimum wage, however, accounts for roughly half of the average wage \u2013 hence half of what is necessary for a decent living. Notably, the necessary revenues are calculated for families that do not own a house \u2013 which is the case for, according to Eurostat, only 5.7% of the Romanian population. For the reference […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}