The average paid net salary per employee in March this year is MKD 34,925, and compared to the average salary in March last year, it is higher by 12.4 percent, the State Statistics Office (SSO) announced a few days ago.
The Government boasted about the increased net salary, but as many as 306,943 workers in N. Macedonia receive salaries lower than MKD 30,000.
The economic website Pari.com.mk reported that about 60 percent of employees get MKD 4,925 below the average net salary published by the State Statistics Office.