
Over 48 percent of the salaried employees in our country receive a gross salary of up to 50,000 ALL per month, while after paying social and health insurance, the net benefit per month is 44,400 ALL.
With the undertaking of a reform to increase salaries in the private sector, the structure of employees according to salary level has changed, increasing the percentage of employees with minimum salary and those with high salaries.
In the third quarter of 2023, in the total number of salaried employees, 28.5% of the total number of employees were paid minimum wage, while 19.8% received a gross salary between 40-50 thousand ALL per month.
In the third quarter of 2023, the biggest expansion was in the category of minimum wage employees, those with wages of 40-50 thousand ALL and wages over 120,000 ALL. This category took 9.2 percent of the total number of employees from 6.4% that it occupied in the second 3-month of last year. The weight of this category in the total number of salaried employees doubled compared to 2021 when it was only 4.9%. The increase in people with a salary over 120,000 ALL came for two reasons. The first is related to the reduction of TAP on high salaries as the 23% tax limit was moved above the limit of 200 thousand lek per month, affecting the reduction of informality at this level. The second is related to the salary increase in the Public Administration. In the first 6 months of this year, the government doubled the salaries at the high levels of government, thus influencing more employees in the administration to receive more than 120 thousand ALL per month.
People who receive a minimum wage of up to 40,000 ALL per month constitute 28.5% of the highest paid employees, from 15.8% last year in the third quarter. This expansion came from the increase of the minimum wage from ALL 320 thousand in the third quarter of 2022 to ALL 40 thousand currently.
Minimum wage employees account for almost a third of the salaried employees, but the second largest category are those who receive a gross salary of 60-95 thousand ALL per month, accounting for 26% of the total number of employees from 24.7% which was weight of this category last year in the third quarter.
The average gross monthly salary for a salaried employee, during the third quarter of 2023, is ALL 71,486, increasing by 16%, compared to the same quarter last year.
Compared to the same quarter of last year, during the third quarter of 2023 the average gross salary for the activity group of Public Administration and Defense; compulsory social insurance; education; health and social work activities, has the largest increase of 18.6%, while the smallest increase has the activity group Financial and Insurance Activities of 11.4%.