In August 276,883 Bulgarians received salaries over the average monthly 702 euro. In a written answer to a parliamentary question Finance Minister Kiril Ananiev states that 2,193 people received over 15,000 euro per month. A year ago their number was 2,030 which means an increase of 8%. In the last 4 years the number of people with exceedingly high salaries has gone up by 83%. In August 2016 their number was 1,021. 19,537 receive monthly salaries of over 4,000 euro, Trud newspaper writes.
The data are based on 2.3 million people working under employment contracts.
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