As many as 192,000 people in BiH receive salaries from the budget

Out of 3.8 million inhabitants in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as many as 192,000 are employed in the public sector, financed from the budget. These are the data obtained by the Centers for Civil Initiatives, presented today in Banja Luka.

166,000 people are employed in police agencies, the Armed Forces of BiH, public services, and public health and education. 19,933 of them are employed in management positions in administrative bodies, agencies, various institutions...

Citizens elected 3,869 people into government, who are also financed from the budget, and who, after their appointment, elected an additional 1,970 people to various positions.

CCI Program Manager Adis Arapović said that not only have the authorities not introduced a moratorium on new employment in the civil service, which they talk about, but this number has drastically increased. To epidemic proportions. An additional problem is that there is no mechanism to ensure that public companies hire qualified, not suitable, staff, writes NAP.