In Ukraine, starting from January 2024, as a result of the revision of the living wage, salaries for people’s deputies were increased. In addition to the salary itself, deputies will receive funds to compensate for their activities.
The salaries of people's deputies are tied to the subsistence level. However, in addition to the salary itself, deputies will receive funds to compensate for their activities, money to rent an apartment, and sometimes bonuses for intensity.
How the salaries were increased:
- Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada - from 32,208 to 36,336 UAH;
- first deputy - from 30,866 to 34,822 UAH;
- deputy - from 29,524 to 33,308 UAH;
- chairman of the committee - from 28,182 to 31,794 UAH;
- committee member - from 26840 to 30280 UAH.
Every people's deputy who does not have housing in the capital (or the housing is not registered in his name) has the right to compensation for the cost of rent. They pay 237.9 thousand UAH per year. This is approximately 19.8 thousand UAH. per month. For this money you can rent an apartment in the center of the capital. 88.4 thousand UAH. They give a month for the salaries of assistants (another 19.4 thousand UAH to compensate for wage taxes). 7.5 thousand UAH per month can be received for compensation of expenses for the performance of deputy duties.
In total, 1.4 billion UAH will be spent on the Verkhovna Rada this year. Last year, the parliament cost the budget UAH 1.26 billion.
However, the government plans to reduce civil servants' salaries. Among the explanations for reforming the wage system is that in Ukraine government authorities have traditionally left some vacancies vacant. That is, the budget for these vacancies was received and then distributed among other employees. This was how they managed to compensate for the low salaries. In some positions, allowances reached 260%.
For example, a department head managing 3-5 people could have a salary of about 10 thousand UAH. However, it was impossible to find such a salary for the manager. Therefore, they assigned a large bonus; as a result, they could pay, for example, 26-30 thousand UAH, which corresponds to the salary of a middle manager.
But starting from the new year, the government changed the rules and prohibited receiving salary increases that exceed 30%, and the salary itself will be increased.
Let us note that in July last year, people’s deputies raised their wages. Parliamentarians voted on draft resolution No. 7561 dated July 18, 2022 “On amendments to the Resolution of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine “On financial support for the activities of people’s deputies of Ukraine.”
If you look at the contents of the document, it turns out that now people’s deputies will receive 49 thousand UAH instead of 29 thousand UAH.
At the same time, Parliament Speaker Ruslan Stefanchuk assures that the resolution does not raise wages, but returns what the people’s deputies abandoned at the beginning of the war.
