Russia weighs wage differentiation in the public sector as its labor ministry studies new options for accounting and transparency. The ministry has drafted amendments to the federal law on personalized accounting within compulsory pension and social insurance systems. The aim is to grant federal enforcement authorities access to primary records of public sector employees. With this access, officials could monitor true salary levels and assess income differences among workers performing the same roles.
Currently, state and municipal institutions transmit monthly personalized salary information to the Russian Social and Pension Fund. This data covers tariff rates, official salaries, and additional payments, including incentives, bonuses, and other compensation for each employee. The fund then aggregates these figures into statistical indicators and forwards them to federal authorities.
According to the report, legal constraints keep the original individual data sets inaccessible to bodies outside the fund. The ministry of labor proposes lifting this restriction, enabling the quantitative and qualitative analysis of wages and the workers who receive them.
Lyudmila Ivanova-Shvets, a former associate professor at the Russian University of Economics, emphasized the potential impact on public sector salaries starting October. Official signings have highlighted a push toward more transparent pay structures for public employees.
Recent developments come after the federal government previously clarified pension delivery only through the national postal service, a move intended to streamline administrative processes in pension distribution.