OREANDA-NEWS. July 07, 2009. The average monthly salary amounted to 2,641.5 lei (169 euros) in January-May 2009, up by 11.5 per cent against the same period last year. The real salary increased by 9.8 per cent on the same period, according to the National Statistics Bureau (BNS).

The head of the BNS labour market and demographic statistics department, Elena Vitcarau, has said that, in the first five months of 2009, the average salary was 2,296.4 lei in the budgetary sector, hiking by 23.3 per cent against the same period last year, and 2,845.3 lei in the real sector of the economy, rising by 7.8 per cent against January-May 2008.

The source also said that last May the average salary was 2,745.8 lei, up by 8.2 per cent against the same month of the year before, while the real salary increased by ten per cent.

The average salary was 2,455.4 lei in the budgetary sector, surging by 19.9 per cent against May 2008. At the same time, the monthly average salary in the real sector of the economy was 2,913.8 lei, up by 4.5 per cent against May last year, Elena Vitcarau specified.

The data do not cover the districts from the left bank of the Dniestre or the Bender municipality.