Cabinet of Ministers of Russia proposed to increase the minimum wage (minimum wage) from January 1 by 6.4 percent from 12,792 to 13,617 rubles. This is stated in the draft law made by the Government in the State Duma.
The proposed minimum wage will amount to 42 percent of the magnitude of the median wage (amounts to 32,422 rubles, half of the workers in Russia receive more than this salary, half – less) in 2020. The growth of remuneration will affect 2.7 million people, half of which are busy in state and municipal institutions.
At the end of August, the first deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Economic Policy, Industry, Innovative Development and Entrepreneurship, Nikolai Arefiev called Mroma Anachronism and called on to refuse him. According to him, the binding to the minimum wage and many administrative fines brings more harm than good. Vice Prime Minister Tatyana Golikov said that the rejection of the minimum wage threatens chaos for the economy.
According to the results of the summer study of the Civil Society Development Fund (Forgo), the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (YNAO) headed the rating of Russian regions in terms of wages. In second place, Magadan region is located, on the third – Nenets Autonomous District (NAO).