The Youngest "Millionaire" Is Four Years Old, the Highest Salary 139.1 Million Denars: What the 2025 Tax Returns Show

The youngest citizen with an income of over a million denars in 2025 is four years old. The income wasn't earned through work - it arrived as a dividend from a domestic bank. The oldest "millionaire" is 97 and earned his income from a pension and other sources. These are some of the figures the Public Revenue Office (UJP) published from last year's annual tax returns.

The highest annual gross salary in the country last year was 139.1 million denars, around 2.2 million euros. It was paid by a Skopje company in hard coal mining. All five of the highest salaries were paid in Skopje, in sectors such as wholesale of food, beverages and tobacco, hospitals and wholesale of pharmaceutical products. The top ten also include one company from Bitola and two from Tetovo.

The highest total gross income, from salaries, rents and dividends, was declared by a citizen from Gevgelija - 257.5 million denars, almost 4.2 million euros. Next comes a resident of Ohrid with 254.3 million denars. The three largest individual dividends, according to the UJP, exceed even the record salary, and they were paid out by companies in Gevgelija, Ohrid and Arachinovo.

The data also show growing tax compliance: over 860,000 returns were filed for 2025, 10.6 percent more than the year before, and 82,702 more citizens had taxable income. "These data say much more" than the records, says UJP director Elena Petrova - they show the tax picture of the economy.

And that picture is exactly what's interesting. A four-year-old gets a million from shares, and a single annual salary in mining is bigger than what an ordinary employee will earn over an entire working life. Is that the sign of a healthy economy where capital works - or of an economy where money multiplies fastest where it already is? The UJP's data tell us "how much." The question of "why" is left to politics.