This year we are waiting for the second increase in the minimum remuneration required to pay employers to their employees. The size of the minimum wage will increase to 7,500 rubles from 1 July 2016, said Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. The value of the minimum wage 21% higher than the current figure.
The last time minimum wage was increased on 1 January 2016, according to the decree of President Vladimir Putin and today amounts to RUB 6 204
Despite the increase in the minimum wage for labor, the index remains considerably below the subsistence level in the amount of RUB 9 452 to align such a big difference and to bring the minimum wage to the subsistence level, will need 3 years, as stated by the Minister of labour and social protection of citizens Maxim Topilin.
The average salary for regions of Russia, to 2016 is 36 200 rubles, according to Rosstat. This is 12 percent higher than last year.
And what of our neighbors? In Belarus, decree of President A. Lukashenko on January 1, 2016, the minimum wage translated into Russian rubles is established in the amount of 7740.
In Ukraine the minimum wage in 2016 at the level of 3560 RUB of Kazakhstan beat Ukraine in the amount of the minimum earnings – 4500 RUB.
In Europe there is no such thing as a minimum wage, but the government established minimum remuneration, paid by the hour. So, in the UK from 1 April 2016 per hour the employee will be able to count the equivalent of 700 rubles., and in the U.S. minimum hourly wage starts from 540 RUB/hour (Arkansas).