The data refer to 962,644 employees in legal entities, who in March last year worked full time.
According to the wage amount, the employees are divided in 13 groups, with the first group comprising employees with a net wage of up to HRK 2,700 and accounting for 5.3% of all employees. The last group were those with a net wage of more than HRK 12,000 and their share in the total number of employees was 4.2%. In March 2017, a wage of less than HRK 2,700 was earned by slightly more than 51,000 employees while on the other end of the scale, there were slightly more than 40,400 employees in legal entities who earned more than HRK 12,000 a month.
The average net wage for March 2017 in legal entities was HRK 6,022. Broken down by the amount of the average wage, the data show that more than 60% of employees earned less than HRK 6,000 a month. In addition to the 5.3% of employees with the lowest wage of up to HRK 2,700, another 56.4% earned an average monthly wage of between HRK 2,701 and 6,000.
In the wage category HRK 2,700-6,000, the most numerous were employees with wages ranging between HRK 2,701 and 3,500, accounting for a 12.8% share, and employees with an average wage ranging from HRK 4,001 to 4,500 (10.4%).
Slightly more than one-third of employees in legal entities, 34.1% or 328,000 of all employees, earned a net monthly wage of between HRK 6,001 and 12,000. The most numerous in this category were employees with wages ranging from HRK 7,001 to 8,000, while 8.8% of employees earned net monthly wages of between 8,001 to 10,000. A total of 3.5% of employees were in the group of employees with wages ranging from HRK 10,001 to 12,000, while those with wages exceeding HRK 12,000 accounted for a 4.2% share of all employees.
The statistics show that in the two activities with the highest number of employees - manufacturing industry and commerce - there was an above-average share of employees with an average net wage of between HRK 2,701 and 3,500, 17.6% in the manufacturing industry and 22.4% in commerce.
The share of employees in industries and in commerce who had a wage of more than HRK 12,000 was the same - 3.7%.
In public administration and defence; compulsory social insurance (over 92,100 employees), most employees (15.2%) had a wage of between HRK 7,001 and 8,000.
Most of the 90,600 people employed in education had a net wage of between 7,001 and 8,000 (17%).
Of the 55,352 employees in the construction sector, more than half had a wage of up to HRK 4,500.
Construction was the second activity with the highest share of employees with a wage of up to HRK 2,700, while administrative and auxiliary services, which employ 31,100 people, had most or 16% of employees with a wage of less than HRK 2,700.
The activity with the highest share of wages of more than HRK 12,000 (13%) was IT, which employed slightly fewer than 30,000 people.
IT was followed by financial activities and insurance, employing 33,500 people, of whom 12.9% earned a net wage exceeding HRK 12,000.
(EUR 1 = HRK 7.38)