The gross average monthly salary in the first half of this year was 5,906.5 lei, an increase of 13.2% compared with the corresponding period last year, IPN reports, with reference to the National Bureau of Statistics.

The average monthly pay in the budgetary sphere was 5,408.1 lei (+14.4% on January-March last year), while in the economic sector – 6,108.1 lei (+12.5%).

The largest gross average monthly salary was paid in the information and communications technologies sector  – 13,089.4 lei. The lowest average salary was paid in the recreation and amusement activities sector – 3,685.1 lei.

The real salary index for the first three months of 2018 was 107.6% compared with the same period of 2017 (calculated as a ratio of gross nominal salary and consumer price index), being by 7.6% higher.