OREANDA-NEWS. February 04, 2011. The average monthly salary in Moldova in 2010, according to the preliminary data, amounted to 2972.2 leis (USD 248), up 8.2% against the previous year. In real terms, the salary grew 0.7%, according to the National Statistics Bureau.

The average monthly salary in the public sector in January-December 2010 amounted to 2549.3 leis, up 6% against 2009, in the real sector of economy it grew 9.1% - to 3213.5 leis. Particularly, in December 2010 the average monthly salary amounted to 3 533.4 leis, up 7% against December of 2009.

The highest salaries in 2010 were earned by employees of the financial sector – 6365.8 leis, up 13.1% against indicators of the same period of 2009. The average salary of employees of the electricity-, heat energy-, gas- and water supplier was 4841.6 leis in 2010 (+7.6%).

The lowest salaries in January-December 2010 were in agriculture, hunting and forestry – 1645.8 leis (+13.2%), in fish industry – 1621.3 leis (-0.4%).