Almost 90 percent of employees earn less than RSD 140,000
As many as 87 percent of employees in Serbia had a salary of less than 140,000 dinars in May, according to official statistical data for May.
The living wage is the salary that covers the basic social and existential needs of workers and their families in Serbia and amounts to 144,457 dinars. This is shown by the latest calculations of the Center for Emancipation Policies.
The amount of the living wage tells us what is the lowest salary that would enable working women and their families to live a basic decent life. It must always be sufficient to cover basic needs, including food, clothing, housing, public transport, utilities and telecommunications, education, leisure and culture, adequate health care, expenses for hygiene and vacation, the center states, reminding that practically only one in ten the worker receives a salary that allows him to live decently.
At the same time, the Serbian economy performed positively for the ninth year in a row. During 2023, a net profit in the amount of 8.2 billion euros was realized, that is, 12.3 percent more compared to 2022.
That is why it is time for the state to protect workers and significantly increase the minimum price of work, and for companies, which make huge profits from their work, to take responsibility and enable their employees to step out of the poverty into which the prevailing business model constantly pushes them, they state in the center .
The Declaration on Living Wage was signed by four trade union headquarters, more than twenty organizations and about 2,500 citizens.
Of the 18 “highest paid” municipalities, 10 are in Belgrade
About 20 percent of workers in Serbia receive between 77,000 and 100,000 dinars, while 30 percent of workers receive over 100,000 dinars. Earnings higher than the national average were received by employees in 18 municipalities/cities, 10 of which are Belgrade municipalities.
Employees in 149 municipalities/cities received a salary lower than the national average, while employees in 49 municipalities/cities in Serbia received a salary lower than the median salary.
Source: Politics, BIZLife
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