The average monthly official salary for 2021 will be 8,716 lei. A decision to this effect was approved by the Cabinet on December 22, IPN reports.

The given salary is used to determine the upper limit of the basis for calculating social insurance benefits and the monthly guaranteed earnings of salary earners who are residents of IT parks.

Currently, the average official salary is 7,953 lei.

The minimum guaranteed salary in the real sector was raised from 2,775 lei to 2,935 lei a month. It is reexamined annually depending on the annual summary rise in the consumer price index and the labor productivity growth rate at national level.