In Serbia, more than a million employees receive less than the median salary, which in August 2025 is 83.535 dinars. Regional and sectoral differences show that many citizens live with wages that are far below average.
The minimum wage from the beginning of next year will be 64.554 dinars. However, this is not even close to enough to live on, claims the Center for Emancipation Policies
The Supreme Public Prosecutor, with an increase in salary, now receives more than 600.000 dinars a month
In order for the average salary to rise to 1400 euros by the end of 2027, the total increase would have to be about 59 percent
The musicians of the Belgrade Philharmonic are on strike for the third week, and no one from the Ministry of Culture has yet addressed them. They are among the ten best orchestras in the world. They are asking to have salaries equal to the national minimum, and to have a director
The education system in Serbia is brought to the brink of breaking. Professor Sanja Štrbac, who actively participates in the strike of educational workers, has become one of the faces of the resistance. After receiving a salary of 2.321 dinars, she clearly said that she is not giving up - not because of money, but because of principles
According to Goran Rogljić, dean of the Faculty of Chemistry, the basic salaries of professors at the University of Belgrade do not exceed 136.000 dinars. Rogljić requested that President Vučić explain to which faculties his claims about salaries of 520.000 dinars refer.
The median salary for CEOs of FTSE 100 companies is £4,22m (around €113m), which is 37.430 times more than the average full-time worker's salary of £45.000 (around €XNUMX)
The governor of the National Bank of Serbia recently received a raise, so her monthly salary as the governor of the NBS is now exactly 752.363 dinars.
Educators will no longer be satisfied with the crumbs they throw at us when it gets thick, says the president of the Union of Trade Unions of Belgrade Schools, Snežana Romandić.
The Ministry of Defense's announcement that the starting salary of the members of the special purpose military police detachment "Cobra" and the 72nd Special Operations Brigade will be 220.000 dinars stirred up a part of the public who believes that this is too much money for such a job. What criteria must future special officers fulfill
Employees of Apoteke Beograd have not been paid for months, they lack medicines and medical supplies because the suppliers have not been paid, and there is no money in the city budget.
The average gross salary calculated for February 2024 was 129.934 dinars, while the average salary without taxes and contributions (net) was 94.125 dinars. The average salary in the public sector is higher than that amount
The artists of the Belgrade Philharmonic intend to draw the attention of the Ministry of Culture to the conditions in which they live and work with symbolic concerts every Monday. Apparently, the trend of neglecting culture is passed down from generation to generation, says Aleksandar Radulović, timpanist of this institution
Today, the second warning strike was held in the SNP. This time, representatives of the Theater Administration and its founder, the Provincial Secretariat for Culture, came to the negotiations. The strikers gave them ten days
Culture Minister Maja Gojković says that the doors of her ministry are open to art unions. However, she did not invite them to the Working Group that will solve the problem of their low wages
The government of Croatia has increased salaries in the armed forces, so now the average net income for soldiers with a rank is around 1.150 euros. The average salary in the Serbian Army in October 2023 was 81.000 dinars, but its commander-in-chief announces that it will be up to 3000 euros
For some of us, it would be more profitable to work in traffic than in the National Theater, Darko Tomović, an actor of this theater whose artists from all three ensembles joined their colleagues from the Belgrade Philharmonic in an attempt to achieve suitable living and working conditions, told Vreme.
"Growth of gross and net wages, in the period January-October 2023, compared to the same period last year, amounted to 15% in nominal terms, i.e. 1,4% in real terms," stated the Republic's Statistical Office
According to the data center of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the highest salary in Europe is earned on average in Liechtenstein. Working in this small country between Switzerland and Austria with less than 40.000 people is worth €7.046 per month
An agreement has been reached on salary increases, the government says. This is not what we were looking for, say the strikers
Even though the Prime Minister suddenly called them to a meeting today and even though it was agreed that the negotiations on salary increases will continue, the educators are not giving up their protest.
Although they have been trying since the beginning of this month, the representatives of Kolarc's endowment failed to talk to Aleksandar Šapić. He may appear at the meeting of the Board of Directors, of which he is a member
Unpaid salaries for June and July have actualized the long-standing problem of Kolarč's endowment - financing. There is a legal basis, but not an obligation for the City and the state to finance an institution with the only concert hall in the state
The unions state that the request to first negotiate the correction of the minimum wage for this year, and only then for the next year, has not been fulfilled.
The number of those who find it increasingly difficult to repay the loan is growing. Installments higher by 100 euros
Drivers can earn up to 2700 euros, ceramicists 2000 euros, they often offer secured accommodation, a work visa, and in some ads a permanent job.
