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Horizontal bar chart showing the distribution of the 39,796 net salaries in the 125 public entities analysed by the Government: 55.6% below 10,000 lei, 30.2% between 10,000 and 20,000, 8.9% between 20,000 and 30,000, 4.3% between 30,000 and 50,000 and 1.1% above 50,000 lei, alongside the net median of 43,981 lei at ANRE and the average gross monthly earnings in Ungheni district, 11,321 lei in 2024.
NATIONAL

43,981 lei net — the median at ANRE, the agency that approves Ungheni's water tariff

On 31 July the Government published a preliminary analysis of pay in 125 public entities. 85.8% of the nearly 40,000 employees have net salaries below 20,000 lei. At the top of the ranking by medians, in the table published by the Government, stands ANRE — the authority that approves water, electricity and gas tariffs — and the Government says it cannot change its pay policy by administrative order.

Ion Calmis·2 August 2026· ExplainerWHAT'S AT STAKE
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Printed documents with tables of figures spread across a desk, with a glass of clear water and a water meter in the foreground, in cold morning light
PUBLIC SERVICES

Apă-Canal Ungheni responds to the water-tariff article: five clarifications, no figure disproved

SRL „Apă-Canal Ungheni” has published five clarifications on our article about the 40.01 lei/m³ tariff, in force since 14 July. Checked against the documents, they disprove no figure: two repeat figures the article had already published, one recalculates the electricity decrease on a different basis — 19.1% instead of 19.4%, the same conclusion — and the response also brings new data, which we publish: the structure of the roughly 140 employees, the history of the electricity price and the waste-water repumping stations. The main findings remain without comment. And three days after the tariff took effect, the operator's tariff page and the ANRE registry were still displaying the old price.

Ion Calmis·16 July 2026· NewsWHAT'S AT STAKE
A kitchen tap with a thin stream of water running into a metal sink
PUBLIC SERVICES

40.01 lei per cubic metre: the new water tariff applies from today. And electricity — the explanation given in public — has fallen by 19%

The new water tariff in the town of Ungheni took effect today, 14 July, when the regulator's decision was published in the Official Gazette. A family using 5 cubic metres a month will pay roughly 106 lei more per year. The explanation given in public — the cost of electricity to pump water from the Prut — does not hold: in the regulator's own figures, electricity fell by 19.4% and accounts for just 9% of the cost. More than three quarters of the tariff you pay is wages. The decision can be challenged for 30 days.

Ion Calmis·14 July 2026· ExplainerWHAT'S AT STAKE