The cost of electricity and rent in our time is lower than in the USSR. Count in examples
Among the readers there are many who have seen the times when our country was called the USSR. And many have nostalgia for those times. Stable prices, free education, medicine, vacation vouchers (albeit within the country), etc. And I often remember examples about prices.
I decided to calculate whether the statement is true that utility bills in those days were lower than modern ones. First, let's calculate the share of the current level of electricity prices in the amount of the average salary.
1 kWh in a suburban area somewhere in the suburbs costs 5 rubles / kWh. With a minimum wage of 30,000 rubles. (we take the average, although there is a lower one), the share of 1 kWh in the salary is 0.017%.
Although 1 kW * h in our SNT in the Krasnoyarsk Territory - 2.75 rubles. The apartment is even lower (but there is a social norm of 75 kWh per person). And in the Irkutsk region, the tariff is 1.1 rubles / kW * h.
1 kW * h during the Soviet era - 0.04 rubles. With an average salary at that time of 150 rubles, the share of this 1 kWh in the salary is 0.027%. 0.01% higher or 1.5 times higher.
Of course, a very large number of rural residents live on lower wages. But in cities there are more salaries. It turns out that the question is relative here. In any case, the cost of electricity now, even for small salaries, is not higher than the times of the USSR.
You also need to take into account that in our time in every family there are many different electrical appliances and the total power consumption is greater than Soviet times. Therefore, in kWh and in monetary terms, the average modern family consumes more. On average, it is 500 rubles / month.
What about the rest of the rent payments? Let's take the total rent. For a two-room apartment with an area of 45 m2 in Krasnoyarsk, the average cost of a receipt is 4000 rubles. With the same average salary of 30,000 rubles, the share in it is 13.33%. We look at tickets from the times of the USSR:
The rent from the times of the USSR for a two-room apartment: 21-23 rubles. The share with an average salary of 150 rubles. – 15,33%. Again, the comparison is average and conditional, since in our time there are salaries and less than 20,000 rubles. As in the USSR, there were also fewer novice specialists - from 80 rubles.
But even with this calculation - the share of the rent in the salary is either equal to the share of the times of the USSR or less. Not everything is so sad in numbers.
The most difficult thing is for retirees. The average pension today is no more than 15 thousand. rub. But even in the early 1980s, the average pension was 50 rubles. It can be seen that the proportion has not changed much compared to salaries.
Why, then, is there so much discontent among residents with the amounts in the receipts? I think everyone is annoyed by the fact that the rent is regularly raised, but the salaries remain the same. You just get used to one amount, and after half a year, it increases by hundreds of rubles. Next, everyone raises prices. This leads to inflation. Why it is allowed to do this is a separate topic.
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