The average gross monthly salary for an employee in our country has reached 66,014 Lek. According to the Institute of Statistics, these data are for the fourth quarter of last year, and compared to the same period a year ago, an increase of 10.8% is observed.
But even though there is an increase in the average salary, there is still a gap between the sectors. The data show that a salaried employee in the financial and insurance sector has an average salary of 2.15 times more than other employees in various sectors of the economy.
Agriculture is the sector that has the largest increase in the average salary, 18.2% compared to a period a year ago, but again, compared to other sectors, it has the lowest average salary.
The sectors that have experienced the smallest growth of this economic indicator are the activity group of public administration and defense; compulsory social insurance; education; health and social work activities, since according to the data the increase is only 6.2%./A2