Salaries of Russian doctors will begin to calculate in a new way

The Government of Russia plans to launch a new system of calculating the salaries of medical workers in the country, the pilot project will be launched in a number of regions. This is reported by Kommersant with reference to the draft resolution of the Ministry of Labor.

As follows from the document, the new system will start working in pilot mode from November 2021 to March 2023 in seven Russian regions – Yakutia, Belgorod, Kurgan, Omsk, Orenburg, Tambov regions and Sevastopol. It will begin in November 2021 and will last until March 2022. During this period, hospital worker and clinic will receive a salary designed for new principles.

According to them, the economies of doctors will be calculated taking into account two new quantities: the coefficient of differentiation of salaries by positions and the coefficient of economic development of the region. In this case, the salary size cannot be lower than the existing one. The methodology of the calculation will develop by August, the head of the Department of Labor, Labor Relations and Social Partnership of Mintruda Marina Maslova said. She explained that it would allow you to “align the situation with salaries of health workers to avoid the deficit of specialties in one region and their oversupply in the other.”

At the same time, Maslova pointed out that equal coefficients in different regions will not be different and may vary several times. It is preliminarily calculated that in Moscow it will be 3, in St. Petersburg – 2.5, in the regions – 1.

Earlier, the head of the Ministry of Health Mikhail Murashko said that the salary of medical workers in Russia from 2012 on average, depending on the category, increased by more than 2.5 times. According to him, the doctors for the specified period, the growth amounted to 163 percent – from 34 thousand rubles per month in 2012 to 90 thousand rubles in 2020. The average medical staff recorded an increase of 139 percent – from 19 to 40 thousand. The wages of younger medical staff increased the strongest – from 11 to 40 thousand rubles per month (plus 285 percent).

/Media reports.