Svi smo mi na minimalcu

Svi smo mi na minimalcu

We Are All on the Minimum Wage

In 2011 most of Serbia was on the minimum wage, on paper. Private employers registered their staff at the minimum to pay less tax, and handed over the rest in cash or through an account abroad. Only state jobs, at the post office or the state television for example, paid in full.

Everyone played along as if it were normal. The Department pasted one sentence all over Novi Sad: Svi smo mi na minimalcu, we are all on the minimum wage.