Originally Posted by
Trixie_I
Hard to say, my economics knowledge is very limited regarding how one would expect it to look.
I know that most jobs in Tel-Aviv pay more than other cities due to the extremely high apartment/rent prices, it's difficult to live in Tel-Aviv unless you have a pretty solid position somewhere that pays at least 10,000 NIS, that's also more or less the average Israeli salary these days, that's around 3,000$ per month.
as an HVAC technician, I was paid around 7,500 NIS but I also had a car with "paz-o-mat" meaning I could refuel the car using company funds and not out of my pocket since it's a work car.
As a tier 1 SOC Analyst, which is the lowest position in Cybersecurity, I'm getting around 10,000 NIS per month, but I no longer have a car, which is why I ordered the Space Star now.
So I'm only now in life starting to work at a "good" job so to say, best job I've ever had so far in life, but not like I worked in many places before that, I started working in a Warehouse after my 3 years mandatory service in the IDF, I was paid around 6,000 NIS, which is the minimum salary in Israel, was treated like trash and had 0 benefits.
Then I went to HVAC school, got myself professionally certified, which allowed me to get a job where I wasn't treated like trash anymore, pay was slightly better and I had a car, which was great.
But then I had my surgery due to developing a hernia and I said screw that and spent all my savings to do 2 bootcamps back to back, pretty much went broke, but it paid off, I managed to get a job in the so called "Israeli High-Tech" industry, which is a very closed off bubble, it's like a wet dream for a lot of people here to get a job like this because you get crazy good benefits and the salary jumps like crazy every year.
Anyway, I went on quite a ramble.
Bottom line is, cost of living is pretty high right now in Israel, prices have been going up, general cost of living has been going up for a few years now, it's becoming a problem here.
I'm just thankful I have this job at all.
Hopefully that sort of gives you an idea on the situation here.