Wages are set to grow with around 4% or a little above, according to data presented at an HR forum in Sofia. According to the data, the services sector has marked the highest salary growth (9%) and, as a whole, the IT and pharmaceutical sectors retain the highest salaries in Bulgaria. Other data revealed that the average monthly wages and salaries in Bulgaria decreased in the third quarter of 2012, compared with the second quarter of 2012, by 0.5%. In comparison with a year earlier, the average monthly wages and salaries in the public sector grew by 5.0%, in the private sector by 10.4%.
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