Employment data look a bit better

In the first six months of 2011 39,000 more people were working at enterprises employing a minimum of 5 people than in the first half of 2010. Together with them, 2,678,000 people were employed in January-June 2011 – also counting with those employed by budgetary institutions and by observed non-profit organisations. In the same period gross average wages were 3.6 percent higher than a year earlier and calculated without family benefits, net average wages were up 5.2 percent. Average wages were up 5.3 percent in the competitive sector but at budgetary institutions employees earned 1.1 percent less.