Minimum wage for the quarter of the year for the Sverdlovsk region
The minimum wage (minimum wage) is used to regulate wages and determine the amount of benefits for temporary disability, pregnancy and childbirth, as well as for other purposes of compulsory social insurance.
The size of the minimum wage is prescribed in Federal Law No. 82-FZ of June 19, 2000 and is subject to annual indexation. The right of an employee to receive a salary not lower than the minimum wage is guaranteed by the Labor Code of the Russian Federation. In accordance with Art. 133 of the Labor Code of the Russian Federation, the approved minimum wage is valid throughout the country and cannot be less than the subsistence level of the working population.
The minimum wage in a constituent entity of the Russian Federation cannot be lower than the minimum wage established by federal law.
Dreams will not come true: everything about salary growth
State Duma deputies from the LDPR proposed raising the minimum wage to 20 thousand rubles from January 1, 2022 - at least a quarter of working Astrakhan residents would be happy with such an increase. But the dreams will not come true: next year it is already planned to increase the minimum wage by only 6.4%, to 13.6 thousand rubles.
In 2022, the minimum wage (minimum wage) in Russia will be 13,617 rubles, the press service of the Russian Ministry of Labor said. Compared to the current value – 12,792 rubles – it will be increased by 6.4%. The corresponding bill at the end of July received the support of the Russian Tripartite Commission (RTC), which regulates social and labor relations and coordinates the socio-economic interests of trade unions, employers and the government. The increase in the minimum wage will affect about 4.7 million workers.
According to Article 133 of the Labor Code of the Russian Federation (Labor Code of the Russian Federation), the salary of an employee who has fully worked the standard working hours for the month and fulfilled labor standards (labor duties) cannot be lower than the minimum wage. The minimum wage is established by federal law.
As stated in the law, the minimum wage, in addition to regulating wages, is also used to “determine the amount of benefits for temporary disability, pregnancy and childbirth, as well as for other purposes of compulsory social insurance. The use of the minimum wage for other purposes is not permitted.”
The minimum wage is taken as the basis for calculations in the case when an employee does not have enough experience or his salary is below the minimum threshold. In particular, from 2022, “sick leave” for a full calendar month cannot be lower than the minimum wage. If everything is in order with your experience and salary, then the minimum wage will not affect the calculation of benefits.
In 2019-2020, the minimum wage was tied to the subsistence level (ML): its value was set equal to the subsistence minimum of the working population for the second quarter of the previous year. But in 2022, the rules of the game changed, and now the minimum wage depends on the median salary in the country. The median salary is a kind of boundary, a value relative to which exactly half of the workers have higher salaries, and the other half have lower ones.
At the proposal of the Ministry of Labor, Russian legislators set the minimum wage at 42% of the median salary. Nobody knows why exactly 42%. According to the law, this ratio can be revised once every five years.
According to Rosstat, in 2022 the median salary was 32,422 rubles, which is 6.4% higher than in 2019. 42% of it is exactly 13,617 rubles.
According to an Astrakhanstat study conducted in April 2022, about 4 thousand employees of organizations (excluding workers in small businesses) received a salary equal to the minimum wage (excluding workers in small businesses) out of almost 152 thousand covered by the survey, that is, 2.4%. But another 4.3 thousand working Astrakhan residents received wages below the minimum wage, that is, they worked part-time. Thus, 5.5% of workers received wages at or below the minimum wage. In 2022 (surveys are carried out every two years) there were more of them - 8.5%, and the minimum wage was then lower - 11,280 rubles.
In small businesses, it seems, the proportion of those officially receiving no more than the minimum wage is larger, since there are more opportunities for paying salaries in envelopes.
It would seem that the proportion of workers receiving no more than the minimum wage is low and continues to decline, one can beat the fanfare. But what are these 12.8 thousand rubles a month now? Practically nothing, only one and a half thousand more than the official subsistence level (and the real one, of course, is higher). Therefore, State Duma deputies from the LDPR proposed raising the minimum wage to 20 thousand rubles from January 1, 2022, “which is about 150% of the artificially low cost of living of the working population in Russia as a whole,” by preparing a corresponding bill. In the Astrakhan region, almost a quarter of workers now receive a salary below 20.5 thousand rubles per month (this is not counting those employed in small businesses), and for them such a minimum wage would be quite acceptable.
But it is clear that the government will not pay any attention to this populism, since such a sharp increase in the minimum wage will lead to significant additional costs for paying state employees and paying social benefits, and we never have the necessary money for these purposes.
So we will continue to make do from the minimum wage to the subsistence level.
The minimum wage in the Sverdlovsk region from July 1, 2022
Previously, based on the minimum wage, the amount of insurance premiums for individual entrepreneurs for compulsory health insurance and compulsory medical insurance was determined; now the contributions are fixed and do not depend on the minimum wage. Here is a table with the main provisions of the legislative acts on minimum wages and minimum wages: Link to the normative document What is regulated by Art. 133 of the Labor Code of the Russian Federation Financial support for expenses related to the establishment of wages for employees not lower than the minimum wage Art.
The minimum wage in a constituent entity of the Russian Federation cannot be lower than the minimum wage established by federal law.
If the minimum wage is not established in a constituent entity of the Russian Federation, then the minimum wage is applied. Minimum wage from May 1, 2022 in Russia The minimum wage (minimum wage) is the legally established minimum wage per month. The minimum wage is used to regulate wages and determine the amount of benefits for temporary disability, pregnancy and childbirth, as well as for other purposes of compulsory social insurance (Article 3 of the Federal Law of June 19, 2000 N 82-FZ).
From May 1, 2022, the minimum wage in the Russian Federation is 11,163 rubles. (Article 1 of the Federal Law of June 19, 2000 N 82-FZ).
Minimum wage and living wage in the Sverdlovsk region for 2022
The minimum wage (minimum wage) from January 1, 2022 in the Sverdlovsk region is the same as at the federal level - 11,280 rubles. To calculate wages, the Ural regional coefficients are also added to this indicator. The cost of living in the Sverdlovsk region for the 3rd quarter of 2022 per capita is 10,656 rubles. There are no data for the 4th quarter yet.
We will tell you how the values of the minimum wage and the subsistence minimum relate to each other, what is the size of the minimum and average wages in the region.
PM: features of the determination order
The PM indicator is established in accordance with Federal Law-134 for all main socio-demographic groups of the population, as this law understands them (adults, children, pensioners, as well as the per capita indicator).
The value of the monthly average is directly affected by the prices of basic products required by a person per month. The minimum also includes the cost of necessary non-food goods, services, and mandatory fees.
The federal executive body and local governments of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation adopt separate laws that approve the list of essential goods; this set is called the “consumer basket”. Taking into account the prices of products over the past period and the established required volume for representatives of different groups, the PM is formed.
The living wage in the Astrakhan region in 2022 for a pensioner, worker and child is set quarterly. This frequency was introduced by Federal Law-134.
Additionally, a special pensioner’s PM is established, which is accepted for the purpose of establishing social benefits. This indicator is determined once a year according to the law of the region (more on this below).
Living wage and minimum wage in the Saratov region from January 1, 2020
Minimum wage in the Russian Federation and in Yekaterinburg
The regulatory legal act on the basis of which the value of the “minimum wage” is established is Federal Law No. 82-FZ of June 19, 2000, its article No. 1. The basic value of the minimum wage is applied by all organizations: both budgetary and commercial.
The minimum wage in the Sverdlovsk region in 2022 from January 1 was 11,280 rubles per month. Let us remind you that the Government of the Russian Federation has decided to increase the minimum wage, which is now 100% equal to the subsistence level. The “minimum wage” in Russia corresponds to the monthly minimum wage for the 2nd quarter of 2022 and, most likely, will not change until the end of 2022.
Due to the need to raise the minimum wage to the federal level, the budget of the Sverdlovsk region for 2022 was adjusted, and the planned budget for 2021-2020 with additions was approved by the Legislative Assembly of the region on March 20, 2018. Additional budget expenses amounted to 1.5 billion rubles. Of this, 1.364 billion rubles will be used to increase the minimum wage level for public sector employees to the subsistence level.
Features of the Ural “minimum wage”
It must be borne in mind that in the Sverdlovsk region the minimum wage is applied with a regional coefficient. The fact is that in the region there are areas with special climatic conditions. In this regard, wages for such areas are set with amendments. Adjustments are made by applying regional coefficients.
Such regional bonuses are required to make wages higher than the established minimum wage. This norm was clarified by the Resolution of the Constitutional Court dated 12/07/17 # 38-P.
So, what regional coefficients apply in the Sverdlovsk region:
- 1.2 - for Garinsky, Taborinsky districts, the cities of Ivdel, Severouralsk, Karpinsk, Krasnoturinsk and territories under their control. In these municipal units the minimum wage will be 13,536 rubles;
- 1, 15 - for Yekaterinburg itself and a number of other areas. Here the minimum wage, taking into account the coefficient, will be 12,972 rubles;
An even higher minimum wage could be set at the local level. It is developed and proposed by the Sverdlovsk Regional Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, and approved by the regional authorities.
Previously, the agreement of the Regional Association of Employers No. 151 of 08/30/17 was in force in the region. In accordance with its provisions, the minimum wage in 2022 (since October) in the region was 9,217 rubles, which exceeded the federal figure. However, from January 1, 2022, the federal minimum wage exceeds the value established by agreement # 151. Therefore, the state “minimum” applies. A new regional agreement was not concluded.
Living wage in the Russian Federation and Yekaterinburg
The Federal Law “On the subsistence level in the Russian Federation” dated October 24, 1997 # 134-FZ establishes the following concepts:
The cost of the consumer basket and the cost of living calculated on its basis justify the minimum wage adopted at the federal level. The minimum indicator established for the 2nd quarter of the previous year is taken into account.
Local regulations apply in the region:
- Law # 15-OZ “On the living wage in the Sverdlovsk region” 0t 04.01. 1995;
- Law #47-OZ “On the consumer basket in the Sverdlovsk region for 2013-2020” dated May 24. 2013.
Note! The composition of the consumer basket in the region, as throughout the country, is frozen and unchanged from 2012 to 2021.
The cost of living in the Sverdlovsk region in 2022 was:
The cost of living in the Sverdlovsk region for 2022 has not yet been established - data for the 4th quarter of 2022 has not yet been published, the corresponding order should be expected in February.
The practical role of the minimum is that benefits are calculated on its basis. For example, when assigning a child benefit for the first child or when receiving a monthly payment from maternity capital, the amount of the family’s average per capita income is calculated. When it is below one and a half times the minimum monthly wage established for the 2nd quarter of the previous year, the right to benefits arises.
What PM is currently in effect?
Statistical authorities need time to calculate average consumer prices, so the authorities are usually “late” in determining the subsistence minimum. Since at least the 4th quarter of 2022 in Astrakhan has not yet been determined, the PM for the 3rd quarter is in effect. The adoption of a resolution establishing data for the 4th quarter was expected in early February. Information for the 1st quarter of 2022 will be approved and published approximately at the end of May.
Specific deadlines for approving the indicator are not established by law, therefore the latest PM is valid, determined in the order established by the Government of the Russian Federation or the authority of a constituent entity of the Russian Federation.
Average salary in the Sverdlovsk region in 2022 according to Rosstat
According to the latest data, Rosstat has published information for the first 10 months of 2022. Information about the beginning of 2022 will appear approximately after March. Average salaries in the Sverdlovsk region in 2022 were by month, in rubles:
- in January - 33,809;
- in February - 34,438;
- in March - 35,337;
- in April - 35,911;
- in May - 38,730;
- in June - 40,338;
- in July - 37,805;
- in August - 36,471;
- in September - 36,787;
- in October - 36,222.
This is information for all organizations. The average monthly salaries for employees of organizations by type of activity were calculated as of November 2022. The difference in salaries between the beginning of the year (36,729 rubles) and the 11th month (37,604 rubles) showed a slight increase of 875 rubles.
Statistics prove that:
- The cheapest paid labor is in hotels and catering establishments, where the average salary was 19,982 rubles. The level of salaries decreased: at the beginning of the year the average value was 20,141 rubles.
- It is profitable to work in the financial and insurance sectors, where average salaries reached 60,930 rubles by November.
- The most profitable earnings turned out to be scientific research and development - the payment for them is 62,976 rubles.
Therefore, it can be argued that changes in the minimum wage or subsistence level from January 1, 2022 in the Sverdlovsk region will not significantly affect salaries in private business.
The minimum wage was equalized to the subsistence level earlier than planned
By Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation of September 19, 2017 # 1119, the cost of living for the working population is 11,163 rubles. Thus, one could expect that the minimum wage of 11,163 rubles would be established from January 1, 2022. However, the situation changed dramatically after V.V.’s statement. Putin. During a working trip to the Tver region, Vladimir Putin promised: the minimum wage in Russia will be equal to the subsistence level from May 1, 2022.
Thus, bringing the minimum wage to the subsistence level of the working-age population occurred earlier than planned - from May 1, 2018.
The subsistence minimum is the cost of a conditional consumer basket, which includes a minimum set of food products, non-food products and services that are necessary to ensure human life. The cost of living also includes mandatory payments and fees.
The cost of living is approved at the end of each quarter, using numerous statistical data, including the inflation rate, to determine it. The federal subsistence minimum is set by the Government of Russia, and regional minimums are set by regional governments.
How the minimum wage is set from 01/01/2020 in Russia
From 01/01/2020 onwards every year from January 1 of the corresponding year, the minimum wage is established by federal law in the amount of the subsistence level of the working-age population as a whole in the Russian Federation for the second quarter of the previous year (Article 1 of the Federal Law of June 19, 2000 # 82-FZ).
Please note that if the cost of living for the second quarter of the previous year decreases compared to the cost of living in the year preceding the previous year, the minimum wage will not be reduced. Its value will be maintained at the previous approved value.
Will there be an increase in the minimum wage in 2022?
Taking into account the above procedure for approving the minimum wage, we can answer the question of what the minimum wage will be in 2021.
To do this, you need to know what the minimum subsistence level for the working population in the Russian Federation as a whole was approved for the second quarter of 2022. This value is 11,280 rubles (Order of the Ministry of Labor dated August 24, 2018 # 550n).
Consequently, the new minimum wage from January 1, 2022 will increase by only 117 rubles and will also amount to 11,280 rubles . The federal law that will approve the new minimum wage starting from 01/01/2020 will provide for exactly this amount.
Regional minimum wage from 2022 in Russia
Let us recall that in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, a regional agreement on the minimum wage can establish the amount of the minimum wage in the corresponding constituent entity of the Russian Federation (Part 1 of Article 133.1 of the Labor Code of the Russian Federation). This minimum wage is established for those working in the territory of the relevant subject, with the exception of employees of organizations financed from the federal budget (Part 2 of Article 133.1 of the Labor Code of the Russian Federation).
The size of the regional minimum wage is established taking into account socio-economic conditions and the subsistence level of the working population in the relevant constituent entity of the Russian Federation (Part 3 of Article 133.1 of the Labor Code of the Russian Federation). In this case, it is necessary to take into account an important condition: the size of the minimum wage in a constituent entity of the Russian Federation cannot be lower than the federal minimum wage (Part 4 of Article 133.1 of the Labor Code of the Russian Federation).
Considering the increase in the minimum wage from January 2022, the regional minimum wage set for 2022, but which turned out to be less than 11,280 rubles, will not be applied.
Taking into account that in most subjects of the Russian Federation the regional minimum wage is set at the level of the federal minimum wage, in most subjects the regional minimum wage, like the federal one, will be 11,280 rubles .
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The main thing about the living wage
In 2022, the legislation on the subsistence level changed, amendments were made to Federal Law-134. The main changes affected the counting order:
- now the basis is taken on the median salary (previously, Russian legislation did not know such a concept), and not on the cost of the minimum monthly volume of vital products (consumer basket);
- the median salary is not just an average, it is exactly the middle of the spread of the indicator among the population (half of Russians receive less than this value, and half more);
- all indicators are calculated from the federal subsistence minimum per capita (federal subsistence minimum per capita is a percentage of median income), regional ones are an indicator multiplied by an individual coefficient from the federal ones. The regional coefficient is calculated according to the rules approved by the Government of the Russian Federation.
But in practice, this only complicated the calculation process, and the indicator itself changed slightly. All calculations are carried out by executive authorities, the initial indicator is the median income, approved by the Government of the Russian Federation in agreement with the tripartite commission on social and labor relations.
