Romania has remained one of the countries with the lowest labor costs in Europe, with the average net wage in euros (EUR343 per month) being nine times lower than France’s average net wage of EUR3,081 per month.
Data from the National Statistics Institute show that the best-paid employees work in the financial sector, the IT sector and in the tobacco industry, earning at least twice as much as the average wage in the economy. Employees earning less than the average wage are teachers, doctors, as well as employees in the hotel and restaurant industry.
As for geographical distribution of average wage earners, data of the Work Inspection show there is a major gap between Bucharest and the rest of the country.
Statistics of the Revisal application – the software of Work Inspection that centralizes data from employees – show that in Bucharest there are over 35,000 employees paid the gross average monthly wage, as many as the cumulated number for the next 10 counties in the ranking.
(English version by Daniela Stoican)