"The level of salaries in the Central and Eastern Europe countries where S&T operates has skyrocketed over the last few years, which is a nightmare from an entrepreneurial standpoint; the main issue here is that prices on the market do not go up as fast as salaries do," Christian Rosner, S&T Austria's chief executive told ZF in an interview. "This has to happen at some point, because you cannot keep on raising salaries indefinitely," he added. On the domestic market, salaries on the integrator segment have witnessed some of the highest increases. For instance, a project manager can earn up to 2,500 euros per month. Rosner has an over 27-year management experience in Central and Eastern Europe, a region that generated 82 million euros in revenues last year, after Romania and Bulgaria witnessed the fastest growth rates. "I am impressed with what is happening in the region, the business landscape has fundamentally changed over the last 15 years. Yet everybody has to understand that at some point prices on the market have to be line with salaries," Rosner explained. S&T has approximately 1,300 employees, of which 250 work in Romania. The local subsidiary of the Austrian group ended 2007 with 1.8 million euros in profit and a turnover of 58.4 million euros. The figure is not representative of the entire business of the company. The group, which is the biggest IT integrator in Central and Eastern Europe and the leader of the local market, saw its business in Romania grow more slowly than in the previous year (12% compared with 48%). Its forecast for 2008 remains the same. Officials of the local subsidiary warned that it might stagnate this year as a result of delays in projects in the public sector and because of the saturation of the private sector. However, chief executive Christian Rosner says that he is still optimistic about the trend of the Romanian market. "The team