Belgrade has the highest salaries in Serbia and the average is 124 percent of the national average.
This is shown by the analysis of regional economic asymmetry from the publication Trends second quarter of 2020 of the Republic Bureau of Statistics.
The capital also has the highest employment rate, 7 percent above the Serbian average, but it does not lead in relation to other parts of Serbia when it comes to exports.
The publication estimates that the uneven economic growth in Serbia in recent decades has contributed to the deepening of already existing territorial inequalities.
When it comes to salaries, the level of development of the region, measured by average net salaries, is 1.5:1, with the highest salaries recorded in Belgrade and the lowest in Sumadija and Western Serbia.
Thus, the average net salary in the first six months of this year in the Belgrade region amounted to 600 euros, 124 percent of the national average, which amounted to 500 euros.
The average in Vojvodina was 95% of the national average and amounted to 470 euros. Employees in the regions of Southern and Eastern Serbia, as well as Sumadija and Western Serbia, received about 87 percent of the national average.
The unemployment rate in Belgrade in the first half of this year was the lowest and amounted to 6.6 percent or 22 percent below the national average. At the same time, in the regions of Southern and Eastern Serbia, the unemployment rate was 11 percent, 29 percent above the Serbian average, which is 8.5 percent.
Belgrade also leads in terms of the employment rate, which is 51.7 percent in the capital, which is seven percent above the Serbian average.
In the region of Southern and Eastern Serbia, the lowest rate was recorded – 45.2 percent or 6.9 percent below the national average.
Unlike other indicators, Belgrade does not have a primacy in the total export of Serbia, where it participates with 26%, which is explained by the fact that the Belgrade economy is dominated by service activities, which are mostly placed on the domestic and not on the international market.
Vojvodina leads in exports with a share of 35.9 percent, followed by Sumadija and Western Serbia, 21.4 percent and Southern and Eastern Serbia, 17 percent, Vesti Online reports.
