Civil Service Salaries Leveling Off
The growth of real salaries of civil servants is slowing. According to data published yesterday by Rosstat, the state statistics service, the average salary of an employee of the executive branch of the Russian government rose 24 percent in 2006 to 13,425 rubles per month, that is, 10,728 rubles above the national average. In 2005, those salaries rose 44.1 percent. Unexpectedly, the data show that state employees in St. Petersburg make more than their Moscow colleagues.
Employees of regional bodies of executive power rose more significantly than federal employees'. That average was 21,047 rubles, a raise of 28.6 percent over the year. In 2005, those salaries rose 21.3 percent. Municipal employees made an average of 11,980 rubles, a rise of 24.5 percent, after a 17.8-percent increase in 2005.
Taking the consumer price index into account, the pay raises received by government employees looks somewhat different. The real average national wage increase amounted to 13.4 percent. Regional government employees received a real raise of 17.3 percent, ad municipal employees' wages rose by 13.5 percent.
The highest-paid regional government employees are those in the Taimyr Autonomous Area, where the average salary was 62,684 rubles in 2006. Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area came in second with 48,967 rubles and the Nenets Autonomous Area was third with 41,096 rubles. At the other extreme, civil servants in Dagestan received 8745 rubles per month in 2006.
Civil servants' wages in Moscow averaged 25,024 rubles, while those in Moscow Region made 24,075 rubes. The average civil service wage in St. Petersburg was 30,990 rubles, twice the average wage in for the city as a whole. In Leningrad Region, civil servants made 34,573 rubles per month last year.
www.kommersant.com
All the Article in Russian as of Mar. 27, 2007
|
