The President of Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik said that he will advocate that next year the lowest salary in the RS will be 1,050 BAM.
Dodik emphasized that this entity has ensured its fiscal stability this year, stating that it will settle all its obligations by the end of the year.
He said that the RS enters the next year with the same ambition to realize its fiscal and overall economic policy in a way to ensure an increase in salaries and pensions, and that it will therefore advocate that the lowest, or guaranteed salary, be 1,050 BAM.
Dodik stated that it is intolerable that in the field of construction, which has shown expansion, the lowest incomes of workers are reported.
“We justifiably suspect that salaries are paid by paying one part legally and the other in a “black way”. Therefore, I think that a salary of 1,050 BAM will be something that will improve the possibilities for workers here to plan and stay as much as possible with salaries that are worthy of living here,” Dodik pointed out.
He reiterated that Republika Srpska is stable, that it has no problems with its financing and that it will do everything to improve the standard of workers in the coming years, as it did in previous years.
According to him, RS currently owes 34 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP), and the coverage of imports by exports is around 80 percent.
“This means that we significantly raised the gross domestic product, which in 2005 was five and a half billion, and now that figure is around 15 billion BAM,” said Dodik, Srna reports.
