The minimum wage will be 6.8 lira per meal in 2023 and 37 lira per month for education.
The recently announced minimum wage of 8,506 TL is insufficient even to meet the basic needs of an employee, such as room and board.
Although the data is calculated based on the spending rates of the bottom 20 per cent of the income group according to the substance groups in the TUIK Consumption Expenditure Statistics, it was noted that the minimum wage would struggle to meet basic needs. such as education, transportation, nutrition and shelter.
It is almost impossible for the minimum wage worker, who has to spend most of his salary on food and housing, to rent a house and feed himself and his family adequately, especially in the big cities.
27TL PER MEAL
According to the calculations of DİSK/United Metal Workers Union Class Studies Center (BISAM), the minimum wage earner will be able to allocate only 82 TL per day for food and 27 TL per meal out of the 8,506 TL of income he will receive. in February.
According to the calculation made by BİSAM based on the TÜİK Consumer Expenditure Research and the Minimum Wage Statistics of the Ministry of Labor and Social Security, the amount that the minimum wage earner can allocate per person for each meal is only TL 6.8.
The amount that the minimum wage earner who supports a family of 4 can allocate for the education of his child will be 74 TL per month and 37 TL for each child.
The proportion that the lowest wage earner can divide into various product groups according to the expenditures of the bottom 20 per cent is as follows:
MINIMUM QUOTA HOUSING IS IMPOSSIBLE
According to the results of the Endeksa.com database, assuming that the average price per square meter of rental houses throughout Turkey as of November 2022 is TL 58.6, the amount that the minimum wage earner can spend on rent it is only 1700TL. Consequently, when you want to rent at minimum wage, you can only afford a 29-square-meter apartment with November prices on average.
Instead, in Istanbul with a minimum wage, you can only rent a 17 square meter apartment. It is also a big problem for the minimum wage earner to get to the workplace if his workplace does not have service facilities. The monthly subscription fee in Istanbul is 602 TL.
The part that the minimum wage earner can allocate to transportation for himself and his family is only 761 TL. Any increase in transportation in the new year will affect even the travel of minimum wage earners.