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Average wage in wholesale and retail trade
Average net and gross earnings in wholesale and retail trade, month by month, published by the National Institute of Statistics.
Ranked 10 of 11, in July 2026.
Average net wage
5,331 lei/month
July 2026
Average gross wage
8,832 lei/month
July 2026
The “Average net wage” series
- Series high
- 5,513 lei/monthDecember 2025
- Series low
- 4,813 lei/monthJanuary 2025
- Months published
- 19since January 2025
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What it means
The figure is the average monthly earning of one employee in this activity, computed by INS from a monthly statistical survey. It is an arithmetic mean, not a typical wage: high salaries pull it up, so more than half of the employees in the activity earn less than this figure.
Units are classified by the employer's HOMOGENEOUS activity, not by each employee's occupation. A programmer employed by a bank counts under financial services, not under IT; a hospital kitchen counts under health, not under restaurants.
Net pay is obtained by subtracting the employee's compulsory contributions from gross pay. The figure excludes severance payments and sums paid retroactively under court rulings for earlier years.
Averages by activity do NOT add up to the national average and cannot be averaged together: the national figure is a mean weighted by the number of employees, and the weights are not published in these matrices.
History
| Period | Average net wage | Average gross wage |
|---|---|---|
| July 2026 | 5,331 | 8,832 |
| June 2026 | 5,208 | 8,621 |
| May 2026 | 5,218 | 8,641 |
| April 2026 | 5,387 | 8,909 |
| March 2026 | 5,458 | 9,024 |
| February 2026 | 5,113 | 8,471 |
| January 2026 | 5,071 | 8,418 |
| December 2025 | 5,513 | 9,110 |
| November 2025 | 5,054 | 8,369 |
| October 2025 | 5,034 | 8,323 |
| September 2025 | 4,926 | 8,148 |
| August 2025 | 4,891 | 8,108 |
| July 2025 | 5,042 | 8,338 |
| June 2025 | 4,940 | 8,172 |
| May 2025 | 4,988 | 8,252 |
| April 2025 | 5,119 | 8,453 |
| March 2025 | 5,133 | 8,487 |
| February 2025 | 4,863 | 8,052 |
| January 2025 | 4,813 | 7,990 |
Toate the activities
IT (programming and consultancy)Telecoms and IT (section K)ManufacturingConstructionWholesale and retail tradeTransport and storageHotels and restaurantsFinancial services and insurancePublic administration and defenceEducationHealth and social work
Source: National Institute of Statistics (INS), matrices FOM106G, FOM107G. Period covered: January 2025 – July 2026. See the source.
The figures are on CANE Rev.3 and begin in January 2025, when INS opened the matrix under the new classification. They are not comparable with an activity of the same name from before 2025: at the move to Rev.3 the section letters were reassigned, and some units moved from one section to another. Where an honest counterpart exists under CANE Rev.2, its history is in the separate block above, with the break declared — never spliced onto the line here.