Bankers' salaries dropped by 12% in June compared with the level of 2008, while in the IT or telecom fields employees' gains have advanced by over 18% in the past two years, in line with National Statistics Institute (INS) data. While at management level bank salaries are still among the biggest in the economy, people working in the IT field on execution positions have already started generating higher incomes than bank employees. The net average salary in the IT field stood at 716 euros in June, up almost 18% from two years ago, while bank employees have lost almost 100 euros from the salary they received in 2008, getting to net salaries of 770 euros in mid-2010. Though, it is little likely that the value of the net average salary in the IT or telecom fields should go beyond the level of bank salaries, as long as the personnel organisation chart in the two industry does not change. "Though on execution positions the salaries of IT employees are bigger than those in banks, I do not believe they will exceed the average. The salaries of bank managers have remained very high, and these institutions have very many management employees. Instead, in the IT field there are fewer heads, and their salaries are not very high compared with those received by the other employees," says Mirela Marinescu, a recruitment manager with APT recruitment firm.

Bankers' salaries dropped by 12% in June compared with the level of 2008, while in the IT or telecom fields employees' gains have advanced by over 18% in the past two years, in line with National Statistics Institute (INS) data. While at management level bank salaries are still among the biggest in the economy, people working in the IT field on execution positions have already started generating higher incomes than bank employees. The net average salary in the IT field stood at 716 euros in June, up almost 18% from t