The social insurance fund Sodra, has announced that the average salary of employed persons in the third quarter of the year has reached € 1,989 before the deduction of taxes, or € 1,235 net. Considering inflation which hovered in single digits in the second half-year, the real growth of labour income was about 7% in the quarter, up by 12% from a year ago. The total workforce was 1.35 million employees in the third quarter, and the numbers continued to decrease only in two sectors – trade and processing industry.
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