The trade union consumer basket calculated by the Confederation of Independent Trade Unions of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) for the month of September 2025 amounts to 3.431.60 BAM.
The average salary paid in the Federation of BiH (FBiH) for the month of July 2025 amounted to 1.628 BAM (the last data published by the Federal Institute of Statistics). The minimum wage, according to the Decision of the Government of FBiH, is 1.000 BAM.
The coverage of the trade union consumer basket by the average salary is 47.44%. The coverage of the trade union consumer basket by the minimum wage is 29.14%.
When calculating the trade union consumer basket, the average salary paid in the FBiH was taken into account, as well as the minimum living costs of a four-member family consisting of two adults and two children, one of whom is of high school age and the other of primary school age.
Most money goes to food
The consumer basket itself consists of the following categories (next to the name is the percentage of participation of the individual category in the trade union consumer basket): Food – 41.80%; Housing and communal services – 14.18%; Hygiene and health maintenance – 9.5%; Education and culture – 13.99%; Clothing and footwear – 10.49%; Transport – 4.66%; Household maintenance – 5.83%.
In the food category, prices from 3 shopping centers for 86 items were used. When it comes to hygiene and health maintenance, costs for ten (10) items were included, and for housing and communal services, costs for six (6) items were included.
