The nominal gross monthly average salary in July was 3,261.8 lei, down 8.3% on June and up 11.0% on last July, the National Bureau of Statistics has said, quoted by Info-Prim Neo. The real salary in July, which represents the ratio of the nominal gross salary to the consumer price index, was 102.5% on last July. The average pay in the budgetary sphere in July was 2,905.2, up 8.9% on last July. In economy, the pay in July was 3,390.1 lei, up 10.7% on July 2010.