The average net salary in January was 4,254 lei, which is 144 lei less compared to December 2022, as bonuses and bonuses were given in December, which increased workers’ incomes. Compared to January 2022, the net salary increased by 15%. Inflation in January was “by a whisker” higher.

In the budgetary sphere, in January 2023, compared to the previous month, the average net salary increased in education (+5.0%), health care and social assistance (+2.8%), respectively in public administration (+2.7 %), mainly as a result of the application of legal norms.

Lower, wage and food inflation (monthly wage increase compared to food)

The highest salaries were in IT&C (over 10,000 lei net), and the lowest in hotels and restaurants (2,412 lei).

The biggest drop in salary (in January compared to December)

• 31.3% in the production of coke chemical products and products obtained from the processing of crude oil, respectively, with 26.4% in the production of upper and lower coal;

• from 18.5% to 24.5% in the production of tobacco products, financial intermediation (except the activities of insurance and pension funds), production and supply of electricity and thermal energy, gas, hot water and air conditioning, metallurgical industry, storage and auxiliary activities for transport, production of crude oil and natural gas;

• from 8.5% to 16.5% in the production of chemicals and products, other mining activities, printing and reproduction on recording media, auxiliary activities for financial intermediation, insurance activities and pension funds, production of basic pharmaceutical products and pharmaceutical preparations, production of other means of transport, telecommunications, production of computers and electronic and optical products, water transport, insurance, reinsurance and pension fund activities (except for those included in the state social insurance system), waste water collection and treatment, professional, scientific and technical activities , agriculture, hunting and related services.

The salary increases the most

• from 6.5% to 9.5% in clothing production, woodworking, production of wood and cork products (except furniture, including production of products from straw and other woven plant materials), air transport;

• from 1.0% to 5.0% in the field of administrative and auxiliary activities, postal and courier activities, other industrial activities, production of machines, machines and equipment, in particular, construction.