15:55 - 12.05.2023

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May 12, Fineko/abc.az. The average monthly nominal salary of wage earners in Azerbaijan amounted to 901 manats.

ABC.AZ reports with reference to the State Statistics Committee that compared with Jan-Mar 2022, the average monthly nominal salary in the country increased by 11.4%.

The average monthly nominal salary of wage earners in the mining industry, financial and insurance activities, professional, scientific and technical activities, information and communications was even higher.

As of April 1, 2023, the number of hired workers in the country's economy reached 1,736,300 people (+33,500 people or 2%), with 904,100 employed in the public sector and 832,200 in the private sector.

Among the hired workers, 19.3% occupied positions in education, 18.7% in trade, repair of transport vehicles, 12.9% in the industrial sector, 8.3% in medical and social services provided to the population, 6.8% in construction, 6.4% in state management and defense; social security, 4.2% in transport and storage, 3.6% in agriculture, forestry, and fishery, 3.6% in professional, scientific, and technical activity, 2.1% in finance and insurance, and 14.1% in other economic spheres.