1600 BGN is enough the difference in the average salary in our country between individual areas. This is what the latest NSI data show.
"What has been reported is completely normal and natural. Even in some respects I would expect a bigger difference. Going into greater detail, at the sectoral level, would increase this difference, bearing in mind that the data presented were at the district level. "Regional geography always softens and the weighted average smooths out the differentiation that already objectively exists in our country," said the head of the "Regional and Political Geography" department. to SU "St. Kliment Ohridski" Prof. Kosyo Stoychev in the studio of Bulgaria ON AIR.
However, according to him, attention should be paid to the fact that a larger disposable income does not mean a better lifestyle, since in larger cities, where the salary is higher, it is higher the living allowance.
"For young specialists, it definitely represents a serious incentive for relocation and internal migration in the country. The analysis proves one more thing - we have a strong core where we are successful, for example in Sofia, Plovdiv, Burgas, Stara Zagora, which consumes the labor resources of its periphery and it retains its structural weakness", Assoc. Stoychev also noted.
Georgi Parvanov from the Bulgarian Employment Confederation explained the reason for the imbalance in average salaries in the country.
"The geographical specificity and the presence of some certain structure-determining enterprises. Varna's rather high score is due to nearby Devnya and the businesses there, which raise pay levels. On the other hand, Plovdiv, which reports an idea lower result, there the municipalities where the industrial zones are, are removed from the city's result. Our impressions of the labor market are different and they are that Plovdiv definitely has higher levels than Varna and other cities," Parvanov said.
He pointed out that in Bulgaria the labor market also suffers from a lack of personnel to fill the jobs in the country.
"The people are gone and the other big problem is that our focus should be on attracting investors, on working on the demographic problem. By the end of the day Bulgaria will decrease by 240 people. Purely physically, those people who are needed, those 200,000 are not there, and work must be done in this direction," said Parvanov.