The pay gap is considerable even compared with neighboring Bulgaria, which regularly offers lower wages than Romania in most industries. Pharma employees in Bulgaria earn a monthly average salary of EUR887.
“The pharmaceutical industry was among the most coveted by job seekers due to the high salaries it offered. It is still one of the better paying sectors but other industries, such as IT, banking, financial services and legal services, have grown faster and topped pharmaceuticals. Once the expansion rate reached a ceiling, the salary growth rate stabilized,” said Bogdan Badea, CEO of eJobs Romania.
At the opposite end, the best paid pharma employees in Central and Eastern Europe are in Estonia with a net monthly average of EUR1,400, followed by Lithuania with EUR1,100 and Czech Republic with EUR1,071. In Hungary, pharma employees earn an average EUR994 a month, the data showed.