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New social class in Spain
• 10 May 2007 •
THE Spanish term mileurista, referring to those who make less than 1,000 euros a month, was coined by Carolina Alguacil, a 29-year-old publicist, who, in 2005, decided to label this new social class that is on the increase in Spain.
In principle, Carolina defined it as “those young people with degrees,languages and completed courses who do not make more than 1,000 euros a month, and spend more than a third of their salary on rent.
They don’t save money, have no car, no children and live from day to day.” The term is now applied to all those whose monthly incomes do not go above this figure.
Although President Zapatero believes Spain finds itself in the best years of
a booming economy, his optimism is being contradicted by figures released by the national Treasury and Tax office.
According to these figu- res, 18.8million Spaniards (42 per cent of the population), fell into this category of mileuristas in 2005 as they earnt less than 1,000 euros a month.
They have been classified into three groups: the first are workers who declared they earn less than 14.364 euros gross a year – 10.4 million employees, (one million more than in 2004), fall into this group; the second are pensioners of whom there are 8.2 million and seven million of them receive less than 1,000 euros a month – in fact, some of them survive on less than 600 euros a month.
The third group is the unemployed, of whom 1.4 million registered in the unemployment office also receive less than 1,000 euros a month.
On the other side lie the fortunate 727 who declare an annual income of 10 million euros. |  Return to Top
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