Year-on-year nominal growth of the average gross wage in November (2.9%) was lower than in the preceding months, largely as a result of a modest year-on-year decrease in private sector wages (-0.3%). This development was largely attributable to a significant year-on-year decline in (performance-related) extra payments, in anticipation of the introduction of a mandatory winter bonus for employees in December. In the public sector, following the implementation of payments related to the pay reform and the agreed increase in basic wages, growth remained high (8.8%). In the first eleven months of 2025, the overall average gross wage was 4.2% higher in real terms (6.6% in nominal terms) – by 7.3% in the public sector and by 2.4% in the private sector (9.7% and 4.7% in nominal terms, respectively).