Life costs in BiH grow from year to year. Only for the last year of food foods have increased by 80 percent, and the consumer basket has reached many non-agricultural 3.178,40 KM. Thus, most families in this country, despite the recent salary increase, continue to combine the end of the end, cut costs and borrows to survive from the first to the first, every month.
Prices and incomes vary from the municipality to the municipality and from the city to the city, so in some parts, this discrepancy between income and consumption is even greater.
Drastic differences by municipalities in the Republic of Srpska
Although the average and entity levels are often discussed, the real images are visible only when it is zagreed deeper, to the municipal level, where the differences are drastic. The Republika Srpska Statistical Office has published a video in which local communities were presented with the highest and lowest average salaries for 2024. Year. According to these data, the average salary in RS last year was 1,404 км.
The lowest average salaries were in municipalities such as Lake (962 km), Kupres (985 km), Donji Žabar (1,039 km), Teslić (1,113 km), Rogatica (1,114 km) you Kostajnica (1,114 km). On the other hand, the highest average salaries had municipalities Srebrenica (1,535 km), East Ilidža (1,571 km), Banja Luka (1,573 km), Gacko (1,636 km) and Ugljevik (1,75 km)While the highest average salary in Republika Srpska had a municipality last year Stanari (1,725 km).
Differences among cantons in the Federation of BiH
In the Federation of BiH, there are significant differences in salaries among the cantons. The highest average salary was paid in Sarajevo Canton and amounts 1,887 km. Followed by Herzegovina-Neretva Canton with 1,587 km and Bosnian-Podrinje Canton with 1,516 kmwhile the lowest average records Central Bosnia Canton with 1.348 km. The difference between the highest and lowest average salary in the Federation is even 539 kmwhich clearly shows how diverse is the economic image and how many different parts of the country live in different conditions.
According to the Federal Development Programming Institute, Sarajevo Canton remains inexpensities, taxes and tax revenues, with the development index of 2.02. The highest average salary in this canton has the Municipality of Sarajevo Center, with the amount of 1,986 km. They follow the West Horacje canton, known for the high level of education of the workforce, and the Herzegovina-Neretva Canton, which records a stable economic growth and good tourist results. On the other hand, the most unprecedented canton is Livanjski, which faces low employment, income and education. Also, municipalities such as Kupres, Banović, Jajce and Travnik recorded a decline due to stagnation of economic indicators, which further points to existing inequalities within the Federation and the challenges that need to be resolved urgently, writes Noise.
