The Government of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the FBiH Tax Administration from the month of the month try to assure the public that this entity records the growth of the number of employees.
However, the situation is somewhat different – the Federation of BiH records the decline in employment and stagnation of the economy, economic experts claim.
The Federation of BiH recorded a decrease in the number of employees in April 2025. Compared to the same month of the previous year, the latest data of the FBiH Tax Administration.
On 30. April The number of employees amounted to 544,613, which is 1,810 more than the previous month (March 2025 – 542,803), but still indicates a downward trend compared to the end of last year.
On 30. April 2024. The number of employees amounted to 546,178.
These data seems to have tried to “hide” by placing the emphasis on the comparison with the previous month, not last year.
Economist warning
Nor can this erase the fact that economic predictions from January – when the FBiH government has made an ad hoc a minimum salary rate at 1,000 KM.
Admir Čavalić, Chairman of the FBiH Economic and Financial Policy, shall expire for the factor to make a more relevant comparison, and that is the 1st January this year to date. According to the data published by the FBiH Tax Administration, almost 7,000 workers lost their jobs.
– We have a negative difference between the number of reported and checked workers. Why is this alarming? In the sea of negative economic information, things like this easily promote. However, in recent years – 2021, 2022, 2023. and 2024. We did not record the decline in employment during the year. The last time we had a scenario like this was 2020. years, in the Čavalić Pandemic Pandemic.
Consequences of decisions
He adds that it is important to constantly repeat this fact.
– What happened, except the bad economic moves of the FBiH government? There was no pandemic, disaster, nothing like. When we compare with the last year – in March, the difference was plus 88 employees, which was absurd. Now, when the minus is a few thousand, this comparison is no longer mentioned. But the essential comparison cannot be hidden in the context of the FBiH Government’s decision from 30. December 2024. Years.
So, from the moment of making a decision to increase the minimum wage, to this day, almost 7,000 workers remained out of work. This is the only methodologically correct time frame to be viewed.
In earlier years, except for Pandemic 2020, we had employment growth in the first few months of the year – from 1,000 to 2,000 workers more. It was about 1,880 last year. We now have 7,000 fewer. It is an alarm – warns Čavalić.
In the end, it concludes that some things cannot be hidden, writes Factor.
– If the FBiH had even a neutral score – zero – and that would be a fall. In the economy, when there is no growth, when you stagnate, it is considered a fall. Neither real earnings have grown, which we see through the average salary, the abolition of certain fees, internal payment and the like – says Čavalić.
