Employees paid from the state budget, in ministries and central authorities, are making a gross wage of nearly 670 euros a month, double the net average of 212 euros per month.
The best-paid employees work for the High Court of Cassation and Justice (the former Supreme Court), where the average gross salary per month is nearly 1,900 euros.
Actually the highest salaries of all the state employees working in the Capital are paid to the employees of the judicial system (4 of the 5 institutions at the top of the ranking), security, competition and energy regulation sectors.
The reason for the publication of the gross salaries resides in that all the public sector employees, from doorman to minister, get perks added to their salaries, which are not subject to taxation and therefore are not part of the gross salary. This is why what the budget-paid sector employees actually get is most of the time equal to the gross salary. Subsequently, all the bureaucrats in Bucharest make net monthly wages that are three times larger than the average net wage in the economy. All data is valid for November 2005.
The data provided by the National Statistics Institute shows the judges at the High Court of Cassation and Justice and the prosecutors at the General Prosecutor''s Office earn even more than the President of Romania.
Estimative calculations made by ZIARUL FINANCIAR reveal that President Basescu earned a base salary of 1,446 euros a month last year, while Premier Tariceanu made 1,333 euros a month, the same as the two chairmen of the Parliament chambers. Presidential advisors, ministers and MPs in turn earned more than 1,000 euros per month last year.
The list provided by INS lacks data on the salaries of the employees of the special services (the Romanian Intelligence Service - SRI, the Foreign Intelligence Service - SIE, the Special Telecommunications Service - STS, and the Guard and Protection Service - SPP). The number of employees of the SRI and the SIE is strictly confidential, and therefore salaries cannot be computed. However, the employees of the Special Telecommunications Service earned an average of 606 euros per month last year, while the Guard and Protection Service employees were paid about 746 euros a month. The data was computed based on the personnel spending of each of the services.
The state institution that has the most employees in Bucharest is the Parliament of Romania. Besides the 322 deputies, there are another 1,440 employees working for the Chamber of Deputies. Added together, they make up 10% of public servants in the capital. At the same time, there are 137 Senators in the Senate, while the number of other employees of that institution amounts to 871. The two chambers of Parliament are two distinct credit orderers, each of which getting its own budget from the state.
Out of the ministry employees, those of the Justice Ministry are the best paid (a gross average of 1,200 euros per month), with the employees of the Finance Ministry following far behind - a gross average of a little more than 700 euros per month.
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