Economy structure
HUMAN RESOURCES
Labor force - employment
The municipality has 3883 job holders
Employment by groups
Small and Medium Enterprises with 1.828 employees
· manufacturing industry: 757
· wholesale and retail: 531
· Health protection: 150
· Transportation: 115
· Professional, scientific and technical services: 50
· Agriculture, forestry, and fishing: 50
Other: 175
Educational structure and educational profile
• 1 higher education institution – 7 faculties and 14 educational profiles
• 2 high schools with 11 educational profiles in the mechanical engineering, business and
legal, economics, agricultural, trade and medical profession
• 4 elementary schools
University centers and educational profiles
• University Apeiron Banja Luka – section in Novi Grad with the following faculties
and educational profile:
• Faculty of Transport – Bachelor of Transport Engineering;
• Faculty of Legal Sciences – Bachelor of Law and Bachelor of Business Law;
• Faculty of Information Technology – Bachelor of Information Technology;
• Faculty of Philological Sciences – Professor of Russian Language and Literature
and Bachelor of Philology – Interpreter;
• Faculty of Business Economics – Bachelor of Economics;
• Faculty of Sports Sciences – Bachelor of Management in Sports, Bachelor in
Coaching and Professor of Physical Education;
• Faculty of Health Sciences – Bachelor of Nursing, Bachelor of Health Care
Management, Bachelor of Physical Therapy and Bachelor of Medical and
Laboratory Engineering.
• University of Banja Luka and ICBL (Banja Luka Innovation Center) – 90 km away.
Educational structure and educational profile
11 educational profiles in 2 high schools (mechanical engineering, business and legal, economics, agricultural, trade and healthy, etc.)
Number of unemployed persons
912 unemployed persons of a following qualification structure:
Unskilled workers: 139
Semi-skilled – Lower educational background workers: 5
Skilled workers: 324
Technician Secondary School and Highly skilled workers : 325
Higher education (Bachelor – First cycle of Higher Education) and Higher education (Faculty of Elementary Studies and Masters – 2nd cycle of higher education): 119
More information: Available work force on the 31st of December 2020
Average net/gross salary
• Novi Grad Municipality: net salary 448,00 EUR, gross salary 674,4 EUR
• Republic of Srpska: net salary 490,00EUR, gross salary 761,53 EUR
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE LOCAL ECONOMY
Number and size of businesses – small and medium enterprises (SMEs)
147 active businesses:
• Micro (up to 9 employees) 110
• Small (from 10 to 49 employees) 28
• Medium (from 50 to 249 employees) 9
Main branches of the small and medium enterprises industries with percentage share
• Agriculture 6,1%
• Processing industry 33,3%
• Trade 24,5%
• Transport and services 12,2%
• Other 23,9%
Financial operations of small and medium enterprises in 2020. year
Total income: 125.311.850,77 EUR
Total expenditures: 119.636.558,46 EUR
Net profit: 5.675.292,31 EUR
Percentage share in the processing industry
• Wood industry 30,5%
• Textile industry 7,9%
• Metal industry 7,3%
• Food industry 52,4%
• Other 1,9%
Foreign trade exchange of the Municipality
Trend volume of trade 2020: 59.770.847,69 EUR
The trend of exports 2020: 17.755.762,56 EUR
The trend of imports: 42.015.079,48 EUR
Coverage of imports by exports:42,3 %
Main foreign trade partners are Germany, Italy, Slovenia and Croatia
The most important export products: wood and wood products, textile and textile products and base metals, and articles of base metals
The main import products are chemical products, food, tobacco, machinery and mechanical appliances, electrical equipment, telephones, etc.Foreign investors
23 registered foreign businesses, in the following fields:
• processing industry 48%
• trade 26%
• transportation and real estate operations 8%
• construction sector 4%
• other 14%
Market size
Novi Grad Municipality participates with 1.1% in the total income of Republic of Srpska
International trade agreements on the level of BiH
• Central European Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA)
• European Union Free Trade Agreement (EFTA)