minimum wage here is, I believe, €8.65/hour before taxes. If portugal has a minimum salary of 66/month, then that's pretty fucking crazy. People can barely live with 200/week let alone /month!
I think you're getting why I do not like my country that much. THere's also another curious thing. If youºre unemployed, the state is obligued to give you some money...there's just a thing. They're giving you more than the minimum salary. IDK how much though
Oh, and our salaries have ALWAYS been lower than the average. That's because of 2 reasons:
1You do not have 12 months. You have 14. YOu get twice as much on December and on August (this is a contitucional right, but our govermment doesn't like the constitucion...(I am serious, they break the constitucion every week with a new tax, and the Constitucional Court is forced to say no. But sometimes, I think corruption or something, it says it's okay. Damn))
2At the time people setted up the base constitution, in april the 25th 1974, most people had a farm, AND you didn't have income taxes. Of course the sallary was a lower, but still...