There are another 2 million Russians with a salary of 100 thousand rubles or more. The newspaper writes about this “News” Referring to the FinExpertiza study conducted based on Rosstat data.
According to the research, the number of employees of large and medium-sized enterprises with such earnings increased by 72% in two years, reaching 4.88 million as of April 2023. This amounts to approximately 17.4% of all employees, or approximately one sixth. In April 2021, 2.84 million employees of large and medium-sized businesses had this income.
As the professor of the Department of State and Municipal Finance of the Russian University of Economics told the publication. According to GV Plekhanova Yulia Finogenova, wage growth is observed in the environment of personnel shortages currently occurring in a number of sectors, including construction, real estate, heavy industry, IT and retail trade.
“This is how businesses respond to the need to fill vacancies as quickly as possible. The expert said that the driver of growth was the increase in salaries in industries related to defense orders, as well as in related industries.
Previously, Rosstat predicted that real wages in Russia will increase in the first half of 2023. grew up The average salary in June reached 76.5 thousand rubles, exceeding last year’s figure by 14%.
Before that, Russian President Vladimir Putin statedHe said that starting from January 1, 2024, the country plans to rapidly increase the minimum wage (minimum wage) by 18.5%.
Putin before aforementionedReal wages in Russia should increase by 3-5% this year.
Source: Gazeta
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