The average take-home pay in Croatia exceeds 7,000 (€924) for the first time, Prime Minister Andrej Plenković said on Thursday, underscoring that tax reforms had contributed to that along with state support to the economy during the coronavirus pandemic.

“According to the latest data from the State Bureau of Statistics, for the first time ever, the average net monthly wage in Croatia in February amounted to more than HRK 7,000. The tax reform significantly contributed to that as well as the strong jobkeeping measures that we adopted during the pandemic and thanks to which there were 17,000 more employed people at the end of March than a year earlier,” said Plenković.

He underscored that from the outbreak of the pandemic the state had secured HRK 10 billion for about 120,000 employers and 680,000 workers who received support for wages.

The average wage increased by HRK 183 from January 2012 to January 2016 while from the start of 2016 until now it increased by HRK 1,396, he said.

The average take-home pay for those employed in legal entities in Croatia in February amounted to HRK 7,083 which is a real increase of 3.4% on the year, the State Bureau of Statistics data released on Tuesday indicates.

Compared to January this year the average net pay increased by a real 0.5%.

The median net wage in February amounted to HRK 5,791, meaning that half of the people employed were paid less and the other half more than this amount.

(€1 = 7.57 kuna)