The increase reflects the rising wages in construction (+21.8%), transport and communication (+20.0%), and health care and social services (+12.2%), the Statistics Office said in a statement.
Month-on-month, the net salary in Macedonia rose by 0.1% in August from 15,808 denars in July.
Details follow (in Macedonian denars):
August'08 | August'07 | |
Net salary | 15,820 | 14,447 |
Gross salary | 25,758 | 23,907 |
(1 euro= 62.3002 Macedonian denars)