Head of the Accounts Chamber Alexey Kudrin explained the difference in state employees in Russia and in the West. He acknowledged that the level is very different, but it is impossible to solve the problem, simply by raising budget expenditures. His words report RIA Novosti.
According to him, in the GDP of foreign countries, the share of wages more, but also labor productivity is higher. “This is another return, it is associated with the structure of jobs that are more productive,” Kudrin explained. “Countries that have set themselves the task to bring teacher wages to the level of average in economics – only the units of countries allowed themselves to do it,” he added.
Earlier in March, Russian President Vladimir Putin asked the Government to analyze the situation with state employees salaries and tell him about the results until April 20, 2021. This order is first in the list of those that are formulated after the meeting on February 10. On it, the head of state demanded to stop the practice of the reign of indicators of citizens’ revenues, so that they meet the requirements only formally.
Last year, Putin said that since the beginning of the century, the share of Russians that can be attributed to the middle class exceeded 70 percent. The head of state relied on the World Bank’s methodology, where people with incomes are considered to be a middle class one and a half times more than the minimum wage (minimum wage). For Russia, at that time, such an income was 17 thousand rubles.