Average wage in Romania

It is the average monthly earning of one employee, computed by the National Institute of Statistics from a monthly statistical survey. In January 2026 the sample covered about 23,200 economic and social units; budget-funded units are covered in full, and from the economic sector those with four employees or more, which account for 88.07% of that sector's employees.

Net pay is obtained by subtracting from gross pay the employee's compulsory social contributions — the social security contribution and the health insurance contribution — and the corresponding income tax. The difference between the two figures above is exactly what is withheld at source.

It is an arithmetic mean, not a typical wage: high salaries pull it up, so more than half of all employees earn less than this figure. For "what the person in the middle earns" you would need the median wage, which INS does not publish monthly.

The figure excludes severance payments and sums paid retroactively under court rulings for earlier years. It is a monthly gross or net earning, not the employer's total cost of labour.

By activity, the figures are aggregated by the unit's HOMOGENEOUS activity, not by each employee's occupation: secondary activities carried out inside an institution each count under their own activity, not under the institution's. "Health" and "education" include the private sector, and the armed forces and personnel assimilated to them are not covered anywhere in these figures.