The geographical position of Bijelo Polje, natural resources, demography and transport links with the environment to the greatest extent influenced the economic development of the municipality. The past twenty years have seen a number of changes in economic development. These changes were the insignia of backwardness and stagnation during the nineties years, when it was shut down most factories had their own facilities in many towns throughout Montenegro. Today, the economic development of the Municipality based on the small and medium enterprises in the manufacturing industry, tourism, agriculture, trade and services.
The following table shows the current state of the manufacturing sector, the number of companies and sectors.

The manufacturing sector

Employment in the period 2007 - 2008th year, growing at a rate of 7%, and since 2009 due to the economic crisis, began to fall. The result of these developments is to reduce employment at the end of the period by 14% compared to 2007. year.
Also in this period, the share of employment in total employment in the municipality of Montenegro has been continually declining, so the 2011th compared to the previous year participation decreased from 4.48% to 3.95%.
Different employment trends by sector. According to crisis fluctuations, various moving and employment in the sectors of construction, tourism, hospitality, transport and agriculture.
Looking qualification structure, the largest share of employees with secondary and higher education. This situation is quite expected if you take into consideration that the majority of the working population has a level IV qualifications on the one hand and on the other hand, highly qualified staff easier to have employment.
Age structure is not so good, because a much larger share of employment has an older population, indicating problems in employment, and in near future it is expected a significant increase in the number of pensioners. Structure of employees by sex is satisfactory, given that approximately the same number of male and female.