The average monthly net salary paid per employee in legal entities in Croatia for December of last year amounted to 5,410 kuna, which is nominally 0.3 percent and real 0.9 percent higher compared to November, announced today by the Croatian Bureau of Statistics (DZS).
On an annual basis, compared to December 2007, the average monthly net salary per employee in legal entities for December of last year was nominally higher by 9.1 percent and real higher by 6 percent. For the period from January to December 2008, the average monthly net salary paid was 5,178 kuna, which is nominally higher by 7 percent and real higher by 0.8 percent compared to the same period in 2007. The highest average net salary for December among individual activities was paid in the production of petroleum derivatives, amounting to 10,232 kuna.
Following are air transport with 9,896 kuna and the extraction of oil and natural gas with an average net salary of 9,425 kuna. The lowest average net salary for December 2008 of 2,698 kuna was received by employees in leather processing. Lower average salaries than three thousand kuna were also received only by employees in clothing production, finishing, and dyeing of fur (2,877 kuna). In textile production, the average net salary for December amounted to 3,137 kuna. According to DZS data, the average monthly gross salary per employee in legal entities of the Republic of Croatia for December 2008 amounted to 7,868 kuna, which is nominally 0.5 percent and real 1.1 percent higher compared to November. Compared to December 2007, the gross salary for the last month of 2008 was nominally higher by 8.5 percent and real by 5.4 percent. For the entire last year, the average monthly gross salary amounted to 7,544 kuna, which is nominally higher by 7.1 percent and real by 0.9 percent. (H)
