The site under the umbrella of the Ministry of Finance Open Data (opendata.mk) reveals how much money citizens set aside every day for the functions of the state as taxpayers. As expected, the higher the income, the higher the taxes to the state. Expenses when measured like this on a daily basis show solid amounts. However, it should be taken into account that there are all the costs included, from pension and health insurance to culture and recreation.

Those who receive a minimum net salary of 22.567 denars allocate 449 denars each day for state functions. At the same time, their pension contribution is 144 denars on a daily basis, for what is classified as economic affairs they pay 92,5 denars, for health 85,7 denars, for education 35 denars, for general and public services they go 25 denars, for public order and peace 21 denars, for defense 11 denars, for recreation, culture and religion 5,4 denars each, for housing and community development 5 denars and for environmental protection 1,8 denars is paid every day.

According to the latest data from the State Statistics Office, the average net salary in the country is MKD 41.939 and refers to June. With their average salaries, they set aside 835 denars each day for the functions of the state. They pay almost twice as much in pension contributions as those on the minimum wage. Thus, the recipients of the average salary paid 267 denars each for their future pensions.

The old economic rule says - the richer the nation, the richer the country, because the tax base is significantly larger. Future retirees will also be richer. Therefore, economists very often point out that pension is an economic and not a social category, i.e. the more he has paid over the years, the more he will get a pension.
Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski repeated on several occasions that the new government is a friend of the business community. He pointed out that more successful companies mean more employment, higher salaries, and therefore more taxes and inflows into the state treasury.

However, the Government is restrained regarding the demands of the trade unions for the growth of the minimum wage to the level of 450 euros. To a journalist's question whether the Prime Minister will meet with the Trade Union that was addressed to him the day before the meeting with the German businessmen, he said that such a request from the SSM did not reach him, and that the trade unions are in communication with the Ministry of Economy and Labor.

The president of the Union of Trade Unions, Slobodan Trendafilov, says that the problem is that business owners keep too much of their income for themselves.

– In the European Union, the ratio of salary to the capital that remains afterwards for the bosses is somewhere between 60-70 percent for the salary and 30-40 percent for the boss. While Macedonia is a country in which only 10-15 percent is set aside for workers' salaries, and everything else remains for the bosses so that they can luxuriate and provide themselves with everything that workers can only dream of - said Trendafilov in an interview for Channel 77.

Of all tax revenues this year, 2,9 billion euros are planned in the budget, and 1,7 billion euros are planned from contributions.

Citizens, on the other hand, can hear daily complaints regarding the functioning of the administration and public services.

1.371 institutions are active in the public sector in the country, in which 128.879 people have established an employment relationship, the Register for 2023 shows. Of these, 18.710 people are employed in the Army, the Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the body within it - the Bureau of Public Security, as well as in the body within the Ministry of Finance - the Directorate for Financial Intelligence with the status of authorized officials for whom the Register only records data on the number of employees, but not on their structure. The Report analyzes the data structure for 110.169 employees in the public sector, of which 62.585 are women, while 47.584 are men. The average age of these employees is 46,2 years. Of all the employees, 1.813 are doctors of science, 5.102 are masters, 52.881 are with higher education, 2.664 are with higher education, 38.137 are with secondary education, and 9.356 are with primary education and semi-qualified 63. From the Budget, only for salaries in the administration 724 million euros have been allocated.