In March 2018, the average monthly paid off net earnings per person in employment in legal entities in BiH amounted to 869 BAM, which represented the nominal increase of 0,7% as compared to December 2017.
In comparison to March 2017 the average monthly paid off net earnings for the March 2018 was nominally by 1,7% higher.
When it comes to the average monthly gross earnings per person in employment in legal entities in Bi, it amounted to 1.351 BAM, which represented the nominal increase of 0,8% as compared to December 2017.
In comparison to March 2017 the average monthly gross earnings for the March 2018 was nominally by 1,8% higher.
In March 2018, the number of persons in paid employment in BiH amounted to 794.505, out of which there were 336.356 women. As compared to February 2018, the number of persons in paid employment increased by 0,4% and the number of employed women also increased by 0,5%.
The number of registered unemployed persons in March 2018 compared to February 2018 decreased by 1,4% and the number of unemployed women also decreased by 0,9%.
In March 2018, the number of registered unemployed in BiH amounted to 466.330.
If we take 2016 as a base year (2016 = 100) and compare March 2018 with the same month of 2017, we will notice that the number of unemployed decreased by 6,6 index points, or in absolute terms, the number of people registered as unemployed decreased by 35.192.
(Source: BiH Agency for Statistics)