"Those salaries are impudently high for the conditions we live in," the Prime Minister of the Federation entity, Nermin Niksic, told reporters in Sarajevo, saying this was unacceptable.
Party of Democratic Action vice president Bakir Izetbegovic said he advocated limiting salaries in accordance with the average in the country.
State Security Minister Fahrudin Radoncic said data on the enormous salaries was released at the insistence of his Alliance for a Better Future party's deputies in the Federation parliament.
"In a country like Bosnia, having a monthly salary of 20,000 or 40,000 convertible marks (between 10,000 and 20,000 euros) is evidence of social insensitivity. The salaries were not earned in the private sector but in the public sector, which carries additional weight," he said.
Federation Vice President Mirsad Kebo said the data on the high earnings of people working in public companies or the authorities such as the Sarajevo city government were disgraceful and unacceptable because they were getting richer "while citizens are starving."
He announced that he would initiate replacements. "We will replace in a legal way those who shamefully amass wealth for their inactivity, those who cheat citizens through bribery and corruption, creating their empires."
In some Bosnian public companies, Board chairs and members earn up to 20 times the average salary in the country. It is unclear how that is possible, since the law says that their salaries can be five times higher than the average at the most or a maximum EUR 2,000. The average salary in Bosnia is 400 euros.