If we divide Romanians in the labor market by age generation, we find that currently the cohort with the highest average income is Generation Y or Millennials, i.e. those born between 1981 and 1996. According to the Institute of Statistics, in 2020 the category with the highest gross income was 35-40 years old, the age group corresponding to the oldest of the Millennials.

People in the center of BucharestPhoto: INQUAM Photos / Octav Ganea

This is also the age group with the largest income gap between men and women. The oldest millennial earns a national average of 6,026 lei if he is a man and 5,577 lei if he is a woman.

Generation X, on the other hand, does not see such persistent differences between the income of women and men. On the contrary, the wage gap is close to zero.

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