Statistical Release
Labour market - Salaries and wages
24.06.2022
Final data Periodicity: monthly Next publication date: 25.07.2022

Average salaries and wages per employee, April 2022

Average gross salaries and wages calculated for April 2022 amounted to 100 727 RSD, while average net salaries and wages amounted to 73 012 RSD.

Average gross salaries and wages calculated for April 2022 amounted to 100 727 RSD, while average net salaries and wages amounted to 73 012  RSD.

Increase of gross salaries and wages in the period January–April 2022, relative to the same period last year amounted to 13.2% in nominal terms, i.e. 3.9% in real terms. Simultaneously, net salaries and wages increased by 13.1% in nominal terms and by 3.9% in real terms.

Compared to the same month last year, average gross and net salaries and wages for April 2022 increased by 12.4% in nominal terms and by 2.6% in real terms.

Median net salaries and wages for April 2022 amounted to 55 267 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
IV 2022 I–IV 2022 IV 2022 I–IV 2022
Total100727997007301272305
Salaries and wages of employees with indefinite or fixed-term employment contract1011991001427337272643
Salaries and wages of employees in temporary and occasional employment61953628954344744078
Salaries and wages of employees at legal entities1073731062287793277144
Salaries and wages of entrepreneurs and their employees52441523953726637236
Public sector1083651086707788678113
Non-public sector97535959447097569872
2. Indices of salaries and wages
 
  Gross Net
IV 2022
 III 2022
IV 2022
Ø 2021
 IV 2022
 IV 2021
I–IV 2022
I–IV 2021
  IV 2022
 III 2022
IV 2022
Ø 2021
IV 2022
IV 2021
I–IV 2022
I–IV 2021
Nominal wage indices98.0111.0112.4113.297.8110.9112.4113.1
Real wage indices96.6102.6102.6103.996.4102.5102.6103.9

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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).