As for not average but actual expenses on maintaining a family in the Czech Republic, the following figures can be cited. The average salary is 18,000 crowns (net - 15,000). As “Business Prague” notes, in Prague it is somewhat higher, in the provinces lower. The minimum wage set by the state is 6,200 crowns, and from the new year - 6,900. The average pension is 7,000 crowns. Today's exchange rate is 27 Czech crowns per dollar.
A family of four living in its own apartment will pay about 3,000-4,000 crowns a month for utilities, including heating, hot water, garbage collection, electricity, and gas. Food (without denying themselves anything) - 6,000-8,000 a month if cooking at home. Clothing and footwear - depending on means: you can dress at a clothing market or at a fashion boutique. Insurance (medical and social) - 1,500-3,000 a month per person (this refers to the family of a foreigner).
If there is a car, insurance is obligatory - about 5,000 per year (engine capacity 1.6 liters). If the car is registered to a company, a road tax is also charged - 250 crowns a month. Accident and theft insurance - additionally. Gasoline is much more expensive than in the former Soviet Union - Natural-95 will cost 24-25 crowns per liter.
Telephone - depends on the number of calls, on average 1,000-1,500 crowns a month. Cable television (three dozen channels with Russian ORT) in Prague costs 400, a full package of programs - 800 crowns. Internet via cable is 1,100 crowns, and via modem (after 7 p.m. and on weekends) - 18 crowns an hour.
A monthly travel pass in Prague is 420 crowns for an adult, 240 for a student. Education at school or university in Czech is free, including for foreigners. Kindergarten - insignificant payments for meals.
Food prices do not differ too much from domestic prices. Some things are more expensive, some are the same, or even cheaper. For example, in Prague pork tenderloin costs from 89 crowns per kilogram, beef from 114, ground beef - 89, chickens - from 55 crowns, potatoes from 9 crowns, bell peppers from 30 crowns, ham from 149 crowns, apples from 19 crowns (Globus hypermarket).
If living in a rented apartment, the salary of one of the working persons usually goes to pay for housing. However, as in other developed countries.
Naturally, the family budget of a foreigner who does not have permanent residence in the Czech Republic will be larger than that of an average Czech family, since he has to maintain his own company and pay for insurance. But at least you need to have a monthly family income of about 30,000 crowns. At the current dollar exchange rate, this is $1,100 (a couple of years ago at the rate of 40 crowns per dollar this was $750).