The government proposed increasing public sector salaries by 13.2% in 2025
The Russian government has proposed to index the salaries of public sector employees in the social sector by 13.2 percent next year. Vedomosti reported this.
The project will primarily include medical workers, teachers, teachers of higher educational institutions, scientists and social workers – all those who were mentioned in the May decrees of the President of the Russian Federation. The Cabinet’s proposal provides for an increase in wages for workers in these areas by 13.2 percent in 2025, by 10.2 percent in 2026, and by 8.3 percent in 2027. It is clarified that judges, government employees, prosecutors, Investigative Committee employees and federal civil servants will have their salaries raised by 4.5 percent starting next year and by 4 percent in the next two years. Salary indexation for these categories will be carried out annually on October 1.
The corresponding proposals were included in the budget package submitted to the State Duma. The Ministry of Finance intends to allocate 114.6 billion rubles a year for these purposes.
Raising salaries for public sector employees called mandatory
According to Svetlana Bessarab, a member of the State Duma Committee on Labor, Social Policy and Veterans Affairs, the initiative to increase salaries for public sector employees is necessary.
“There was information from the government that indexation of wages would be proposed with great preference for doctors, teachers, and social workers,” – reminded she, noting that any increases in payments should be included in the draft budget for 2025-2027.
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The approval of the corresponding initiative, the deputy emphasized, will lead to ensuring the implementation of the decrees of the Russian president. She recalled that, according to Putin’s decree, the average salary of medical workers should be 200 percent of the average salary in the region, and for education workers – 100 percent of the average regional salary.
Doctors have become one of the most scarce professions in Russia
According to data as of October of this year, doctors are one of the most scarce professions on the Russian labor market. Along with cooks and bakers, the index of active resumes per vacancy in the specialty of a doctor is 1.2. The list of the most popular professions in Russia also includes store administrators, car mechanics and mechanics, and pharmacists.
At the same time, the vacancy of an Android security researcher turned out to be the most profitable. They are ready to offer the successful candidate a salary of 900 thousand rubles per month. A 1C programmer can expect a salary of up to 400 thousand rubles, while the average salary of a doctor as of 2023 amounted to about 113 thousand rubles.
Since the beginning of this month, Russia has indexed the salaries of two million citizens. 359 billion rubles were allocated for these measures. In addition, the State Duma proposed increasing the minimum wage (minimum wage) to 30 thousand rubles (from the beginning of 2024 it is 19,242 rubles per month).
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