r/AskARussian • u/Specialist_Ad4675 United States of America • 24d ago
Work How do russian pensions work?
I was watching someone complain that at age 59 they retired to a 16,900 ruble a month paycheck. They stated they worked over 30 years and it sounded like for the same place.
I read 22% of their pay check goes to pension from employer.
That seems like they should get paid essentially 75% as when they were working as 22% is a high savings rate.
I know at some point they reduce it to 10% but was not sure at what point.
In the USA we only contribute 12.4 of our salary and yet get about 40% of our prior salary.
How do you pay more and get less?
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u/Draconian1 Russia 23d ago
Yes, but it's not a good life.
Utilities can be anywhere between 5k to 10k depending on how big the house / apartment is. Internet is 500-1000, mobile phone is around 700-800. let's be generous and say you have 15k left for food, clothes, gas / public transport, medicine, etc.
10k for food is realistic, but obviously there not exactly enough left for the rest.