The head of Naftogaz declared a astronomical salary. Even the prime minister gets 10 times less

Prime Minister of Ukraine Denis Shmigal receives a salary 22 times less than the head of Naftogaz Alexey Chernyshov. Shmigal declared a salary of 81,237 UAH. While the head of Naftogaz receives 1.7 million UAH per month.

The Prime Minister is responsible for the economy, social, public services, medicine and education of the country. During war, meeting the needs of the military depends on the work of the government. It is the Cabinet of Ministers that is the shareholder of the national company Naftogaz of Ukraine.

Alexey Chernyshov in 2019 earned an average of 26 thousand UAH while working as Minister of Community and Territorial Development. A lot of work, responsibility, attention and little money. But soon Alexei Chernyshov was appointed head of Naftogaz. In his declaration for 2023, he showed an average monthly salary of UAH 1,781,025. This is almost 22 times more than the Prime Minister earns.

The government also owns the national energy generating company Energoatom. The head of the company, Petr Kotin, received an average salary of UAH 393,066 last year. Finance Minister Sergei Marchenko is responsible for the financial stability of the entire country, finds funds to finance the budget, and is responsible for the level of public debt.

In his declaration for last year, the minister showed an average salary of 93.5 thousand UAH. This year, according to the department’s dashboards, the average monthly salary of the leadership of the Ministry of Finance amounted to UAH 97.4 thousand (data for January).

An ordinary specialist of the Ministry of Finance earns 38.4 thousand UAH per month. It is the Ministry of Finance that owns shares of state banks, including the largest - PrivatBank, Sberbank and Ukrgasbank. While Marchenko earns an average of 93.5 thousand UAH, Rodion Morozov, acting head of Ukrgasbank, receives a salary of 870 thousand (in hand after taxes - 683.3 thousand UAH).

One of the largest banks, Oschad, paid its chairman Sergei Naumov 1 million 53 thousand 194 UAH in February. And his colleague from “Privat” Gerhard Besch earns 1.4 million UAH monthly. That is, the head of a bank owned by the Ministry of Finance earns 15.3 times more than the minister himself.