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However, salaries in state-owned enterprises continue to be "confidential". There are significant differences in the salaries even when the employees belong to the same educational and professional category and experience. For example, the gross salary of a newly appointed employee at the underground, who has secondary education, is 1,343 euro, which is 273 euro more than the salary of an employee at the electric train company, who has the same professional qualities. Their counterpart in the trolley transport receives a gross salary of 1,255 euro. For comparison, the gross salary of a newly appointed teacher at a primary school is 780 euro.

The equalization of salaries in the public and private sectors remains a distant goal, as the difference is still between 300 and 600 euro in favour of civil servants. The first salary in the private sector is about 750 euro but after the 22-per cent reduction, it dropped to 581 euro in many cases. And if the employee is under the age of 25 years, his or her salary is 511 euro.