20 May 2011 17:09

Wage arrears in Russia up 2% in April - Rosstat

MOSCOW. May 20 (Interfax) - Wage arrears in Russia grew 2% in April to 2.779 billion rubles, the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) said.

Arrears grew 15.9% in January and 8.9% in February before falling 10% in March.

Around 52 million rubles of the April arrears were public sector wage arrears caused by delays with transferring budgeted funds - down 2.2% or 1.1 million rubles from March.