Every eighth person wants to change job as not satisfied with salary in Moldova

Chisinau, 04 September /MOLDPRES/ – Each eighth person would like to change the situation in relation to the current job because not being satisfied with the level of remuneration, according to the report of the National Bureau of Statistics (BNS)  Labour Force in Moldova: Employment and Unemployment in Quarter Two 2017.

The official statistics show that 12 per cent of the population having a job or more than 152 thousand people are not happy with the salary they receive. Most of them (88 per cent) want higher hourly wages. Their share of the total of 1 million 270 thousand employed persons amounted to 10.6 per cent, slightly decreasing compared to the same quarter of 2016 (11.5 per cent). The rest are ready to work extra hours for a higher income.

On the other hand, the number of under-employed persons (persons who have had a job, whose total number of hours actually worked during the reference period was less than 40 hours a week, who wanted and were available to work overtime) was 75.6 thousand.

The BNS also notes that the number of unemployed, estimated according to the definition of the International Labour Office, was 45.7 thousand, down from the similar period of 2016 (55 thousand). The unemployment rate at the country level was 3.5 per cent, slightly down from the second quarter of 2016 (4 per cent).

(Reporter V. Bercu, editor A. Raileanu)