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| FOM107G - Monthly average gross earnings in the economy on section and division level, CANE Rev.3 |
| Definition |
The gross nominal earnings include the gross amounts paid to employees in the reference period, thus:
1. Gross amounts paid from the salary funds for time worked:
- basic salaries corresponding to the hours actually worked in full-time and overtime (including indexations, leadership allowances, performance salaries and other rights which, according to the legislation, are included in the basic salary);
- bonuses and allowances granted as percentage of the basic salary or as flat rates;
- bonuses/awards/benefits granted over the year or annually in different forms (including the 13th salary, holiday bonuses);
- exceptional payments/bonuses (occasional) paid to the employees who are leaving the enterprise (including retirement bonuses), only if the respective amounts are not related to a labour contract;
- amounts granted for the payment of employees for holiday leaves not taken;
- amounts related to the risk incentive granted to the medical staff, in accordance with the legal provisions in force;
- the amounts paid to employees as per diem for work related travels, inside the country or abroad, which oversees the not taxable threshold as stipulated in the legal acts;
- other amounts/additions paid from the salary fund in accordance with the legal provisions in force and/or established by employment contracts;
- payment of the manager or, as the case may be, the gross allowances of administrators or performance bonuses granted to them, in accordance with the management, administration, mandate or performance contracts, in accordance with the legal provisions in force;
2. Gross amounts paid from the salary funds for hours not worked:
- amounts paid for hours not worked (holiday or study leaves, legal holidays, special family events, etc.) in accordance with the legal provisions in force and/or established by the labour contracts/agreements;
- monthly allowances paid according to the law by employers during a non-compete period, as established by the labour contract/agreement;
- allowances for temporary work incapacity (sick leave) caused by common diseases or non-related to work injuries, professional diseases and work injuries paid from the salary funds (excluding the amounts paid from the Unique National Health Insurance Fund and Work-Related Accidents and Occupational Diseases Insurance Budget), in accordance with the legal provisions in force;
- amounts paid for work interruptions non-imputable to employees;
- allowances of which the employees benefit for the period when the labour contract is temporary suspended at the employer initiative (technical unemployment), irrespective if are borne by the employer or from state budget, in accordance with the legal provisions in force;
- allowances of which the employees benefit for the days off granted to parents in order to supervise their children, in cases of temporary closure of educational institutions, in accordance with the legal provisions in force;
- allowances of which the employees benefit as a result of working hours reduction, in accordance with the legal provisions in force.
3. Gross amounts paid from salary fund as payments in kind and cash include the equivalent value of the payments in kind and of the cash aids, paid as work remuneration, in accordance with the legal provisions in force and/or established by labour contracts (including the amounts paid to employees who carry out activities in tele-work, to support utility expenses at the place where they work, such as electricity, heating, water and data subscriptions, the purchase of furniture and equipment office; subscriptions borne by the employer for its own employees, in order to practice sports and physical education for their own well-being, prophylactic or therapeutic, or as intermediaries for medical services, if the respective subscriptions also include medical services; amounts paid to employees for transportation to/from the workplace);
4. Gross amounts paid to the employees (as incentives) from net profit of the unit, including the amount corresponding to the share of the manager or administrator, as the case may be, excluding dividends paid from the net profit;
5.Gross amounts paid from other funds (including the payments in kind, cash aids, food allowance/norm, other allowances) than the salary funds, including incentives granted from a fund established by applying a percentage to the amounts obtained from turning into account seized goods from penalties coming from amounts cashed based on enforced legal acts in accordance to the Fiscal procedure code, those cashed based on judicial restructuring and bankruptcy, other incentive granted besides the salary funds, the amounts paid for activity performed in projects financed from European funds, payments in kind as products, rents, fuel, energy, transport; the values tickets equivalent (meal tickets, gift tickets, nursery tickets, cultural tickets, holiday vouchers/tickets), benefits (for funerals, for gravely and incurable diseases, for birth/adoption, etc.), all amounts granted based on legal provisions force.
The gross amounts paid include: all amounts, including deductions for the payment of rates, seizures, social security contribution, respectively social health insurance contribution paid by employees, tax, as well as refunds for reductions for non-production. |
| Periodicity |
Monthly |
| Data sources |
Monthly survey on earnings details |
| Methodology |
Objective of monthly statistical survey on earnings is to evaluate short term trends of monthly average and hourly earnings per total economy and by activity sector.
In view to set up the sample size, estimates of the main characteristics observed have been taken into account, which could be affected by errors of +/-3% at most and guaranteed with a probability of 95%. Starting with January 2026, the sample comprises about 23200 economic and social units. Budgetary sector units are exhaustively included in the survey, except local public administration for which data at level of local communal councils are collected based on a sample representative at level of county (about 820 units).
From 2001 onwards, for economic sector, units of four employees and over were included in the survey, covering, in 2026, 88,07% of total employees in this sector.
In order to improve the quality estimates and to increase the overall response rate, estimation methods were applied, by imputing the missing data from the statistical survey with the data reported in administrative sources ("Declaration on payment obligations related to social contributions, the income tax and nominal records of insured persons (D112)", owned by National Agency for Fiscal Administration). The imputation rate is about 15%. Type of non-response taken into account: refusal, units not identified, units not contacted, dormant or insolvency units at the end of the reference period (that reported data in administrative sources).
Also, starting with January 2024, the data for the units belonging to the central public administration (ministries, national institutions, authorities/agencies, s.o.) are estimated based on the information declared in D112, according to the processing flow developed for the estimation of statistical indicators.
The average gross monthly earnings are calculated by relating the gross amount paid from the salary funds, from the net profit and other funds to the average number of employees.
The average number of employees is defined according to the specifications from the FOM104G matrix.
Data are aggregated by homogeneous activity of units, meaning that in public administration activity (according to CANE Rev.3) there are not included all the secondary activities developed in central and local public administration of type:
- social assistance;
- arts, sports and recreation;
- landscape and services for buildings;
- agriculture;
- water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities;
- construction;
- transportation and storage;
- electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply;
- renting and sub-renting real estate goods etc.
Information about secondary activities are included each of them in economic activities according to the corresponding CANE Rev.3. Information regarding "budgetary sector" should be used carefully because data refer to statistics from economic activity (aggregated by homogeneous activity) according to CANE Rev.3 of public administration, education, human health and social work activities (including private sector for education - about 3.2% in 2026, respectively human health and social work activities - about 12.3% in 2026) except armed forces and staff assimilated (Ministry of National Defense, Romanian Intelligence Office, Ministry of Administration and Interior etc.).
These statistics do not take into account the financing type, their purpose being to provide information by economic activity according to CANE Rev.3.
Information corresponding to the financing type are administered by the Ministry of Public Finance, in keeping with the stipulations of Government Emergency Ordinance no.48/2005, with later completions and modifications.
As a result of a new Classification of Activities in the National Economy (CANE Rev. 3- developed in accordance with the provisions of the Commission delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/137 amending Regulation (EC) No 1893/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing the statistical classification of economic activities NACE Revision 2) entering into force and as a consequence, the updating of the activity carried out by the economic agents, starting with the reference year 2026, INS collects, produces and disseminates statistical indicators based on this classification.
In order to ensure the comparability with previous periods, the monthly data related to the year 2025 regarding the earnings and the number of employees at the end of the month were estimated in accordance with CANE Rev.3 classification. The estimation method applied is based on a CANE Rev.2 - CANE Rev.3 conversion matrix, used for recoding active statistical units in the Statistical Register of Enterprises. The collection of information on CANE Rev.3 was achieved by using multiple data sources both administrative and statistical, with the aim of improving the quality of statistical data and ensuring a complete coverage of all of CANE Rev.3 classes. The conversion matrix thus constructed ensures methodological coherence and comparability of statistical data series.
In some economic activities, a differentiated minimum gross basic salary is applied. |
| Last update |
MAR 26, 2026 |
| Observations |
This matrix represents a continuation of the FOM107D matrix, containing data up to Year 2025, according to CANE Rev.2.
The data are operative. |
| Continuation |
This matrix represents a continuation of the FOM107D matrix, containing data up to December 2025. |
| Responsible person |
Cotirta Alin; e-mail:alin.cotirta@insse.ro; int. 2281 |
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