Serbia's June Salary: 120,401 Dinars, Median 94,281

Serbia’s Republic Statistical Office (RZS) released official wage data for June 2026 on August 25. The average gross salary came to 166,123 dinars, and the net figure, what’s left after tax and contributions, was 120,401 dinars. This is the first time this year we’ve covered the average salary, and the new numbers also show, for the first time, just how far that average sits from what most workers actually take home.

The gap is measurable. The median net salary in June was 94,281 dinars, meaning half of Serbia’s workforce earned that amount or less, and the other half earned more. The difference between the average and the median comes to 26,120 dinars, and it shows that a relatively small number of high salaries pull the average upward, while the typical worker earns considerably less than the figure usually quoted as the “average salary.”

How much wages grew

Compared to June 2025, the gross salary is nominally 12.3 percent higher and 9.3 percent higher in real terms. The net salary over the same comparison rose 12.4 percent nominally, or 9.4 percent in real terms.

Looking at the broader period, from January through June 2026 compared with the same months last year, RZS reports the following:

“The average net salary in the January-June 2026 period, compared to the same period last year, is nominally higher by 11.5%, and higher in real terms by 8.4%”

Over those six months, the gross salary was nominally 11.3 percent higher and 8.2 percent higher in real terms.

Public sector versus entrepreneurs’ staff

The average conceals a divide between sectors. According to figures carried by the Lokalne novine outlet, the average net salary in the public sector in June was 124,218 dinars, while employees working for private entrepreneurs earned 65,360 dinars on average. The gap is close to 58,900 dinars, meaning public sector pay is nearly double what workers earn in the private entrepreneurial segment.

At the bottom of the scale sits the minimum wage, raised by 10.1 percent as of January 1, 2026, now standing at 371 dinars per hour, or 64,554 dinars a month for a full workload, an amount close to what employees at entrepreneurs’ businesses earn on average.

RZS publishes its monthly wage reports, by its own account, with a 55-day lag after the end of the reference month, due to a methodology built on Tax Administration records introduced in 2018. On the same day, August 25, the office also released demographic data for the January-July 2026 period: 33,345 live births and 55,454 deaths, another set of figures from the same institution’s regular statistical cycle.