Russian govt office refutes plans to raise officials' wage by 38% in 2019
MOSCOW. Nov 8 (Interfax) - The three-year budget does not stipulate a pay raise for civil servants, and media claims that their wages will grow by 38% in 2019 are wrong, the Russian government office said.
"The 38% digit mentioned by certain sources was tentative and theoretical. Due to the economic situation, this indicator will hardly be achieved in 2019 even despite its accumulative nature," the office said in a report seen by Interfax on Tuesday.
According to the report, the 38% pay raise reported by the media was stipulated by fundamental areas of the development of civil service in Russia in 2016-2018, but it applied only to wages of civil servants, excluding benefits and bonuses, and was not supposed to be a lump sum but "an accumulative result of the period from 2012 till 2018."
The fundamental areas were drafted in 2014, and officials' wages were growing in the period from 2012-2014, the report said. The pay raise "was practically frozen in 2015", moreover that presidential orders issued in 2014-2015 reduced the payroll of federal authorities by 10%, in addition to 10% cuts of wages in the government office, it said.
"The indexation of civil servants' wages according to the inflation rates was abolished for budgets of 2015, 2016 and for draft budget of 2017-2019," the report said.
