Statistical Release
Labour market - Salaries and wages
25.01.2021

Average salaries and wages per employee, November 2020

Average gross salaries and wages calculated for November 2020 amounted to 84 201 RSD, while average net salaries and wages amounted to 60 926 RSD.

Final data Periodicity: monthly Next publication date: 25.02.2021

Average gross salaries and wages calculated for November 2020 amounted to 84 201 RSD, while average net salaries and wages amounted to 60 926 RSD.

Increase of gross salaries and wages in the period January – November 2020, relative to the same period last year amounted to 9.4% in nominal terms, i.e. 7.7% in real terms. Simultaneously, net salaries and wages increased by 9.3% in nominal terms and by 7.6% in real terms. 

Compared with the same month last year, average gross salaries and wages for November 2020 increased by 8.1% in nominal terms and by 6.3% in real terms, while average net salaries and wages increased by 8.2% in nominal terms and by 6.4% in real terms.

Median net salaries and wages for November 2020 amounted to 46 861 RSD, meaning that 50% of employees realised wages and salaries up to the mentioned amount.

1. Average salaries and wages
Republic of Serbia                                                                                                                                                                               RSD
  Gross Net
XI 2020 I–XI 2020 XI 2020 I–XI 2020
Total84201822556092659515
Salaries and wages of employees with indefinite or fixed-term employment contract84594826536122759821
Salaries and wages of employees in temporary and occasional employment54948541673851237964
Salaries and wages of employees at legal entities90045875616523563454
Salaries and wages of entrepreneurs and their employees44077449153134431792
Public sector95858940256884867544
Non-public sector79220770875754255989
2. Indices of salaries and wages
 
  Gross Net
XI 2020
 X 2020
XI 2020
Ø 2019
 XI 2020
 XI 2019
I–XI 2020
I–XI 2019
  XI 2020
 X 2020
XI 2020
Ø 2019
XI 2020
XI 2019
I–XI 2020
I–XI 2019
Nominal wage indices101.3111.1108.1109.4101.4110.9108.2109.3
Real wage indices101.3109.4106.3107.7101.4109.2106.4107.6

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Methodological explanations

Data source

The survey on salaries and wages is based on data from the Tax return as regards tax deduction (form PPP-PD). Average salaries and wages are calculated on the basis of amounts of computed salaries and wages for the referent month and number of employees, expressed as full-time equivalent – FTE.

Coverage

Included are all business entities that submitted completed electronic form to the Tax Administration, i.e. the form on tax report PPP-PD, with calculated salaries and wages.

Encompassed are all categories of employees for which employers, i.e. business entities delivered to the Tax Administration the completed electronic form on tax report PPP-PD, with calculated salaries and wages.

Definition of salaries and wages

In accordance with the Labour Law and Personal Income Tax Law, in the survey on salaries and wages, encompassed are all salaries and wages paid to employees and subject to taxes and contributions.

Salaries and wages comprise:

Salaries and wages are not considered to be payments under the service contract, sick-leave benefits longer than 30 days, compensation of public transport costs for commuting to and from work, for the time spent on business trip in the country and abroad, accommodation and food allowances during work and work in the field, retirement gratuity or benefits to those for whose work the need was terminated, one-time fees in accordance with the social program, compensation of funeral expenses and compensation for occupational disease or injury, jubilee prizes, solidarity aid, as well as other revenues not subject to taxes and contributions payment.

Starting from 1999 the Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia has not at disposal and may not provide available certain data relative to AP Kosovo and Metohija and therefore these data are not included in the coverage for the Republic of Serbia (total).