Real wages in Ukraine in July 2019 increased by 9.5% year-over-year, while compared with June 2019 increased by 2.4%, the State Statistics Service has reported.
According to the service, the average nominal wage of full-time employees in July 2019 compared with the previous month increased by 1.7%, in annual terms – by 19.6%, reaching UAH 10,971.
The authority said that in June 2019 it amounted to UAH 10,783, in May – UAH 10,239, April – UAH 10,269, March – UAH 10,237.
According to the statistics department, the largest increase in the average wage of full-time employees in July 2019, compared with July 2018, was observed in Vinnytsia (24.8%), Mykolaiv (23.7%), Donetsk (23%), Kyiv (22.9%), Cherkasy (22.3%), Zaporizhia (22.1%), Dnipropetrovsk (21.8%), Rivne (21.6%), Ternopil (21.5%), Volyn (21%), Khmelnytsky (20.6%), Luhansk (20.2%), Chernivtsi (19.8%), Kharkiv (19.5%), Chernihiv and Sumy (19.1% each), Ivano-Frankivsk (18.6%), and Kherson regions (17.7%).
The highest level of wages in July was recorded in Kyiv city – UAH 16,249, and the lowest – in Kherson region (UAH 8,547). Meanwhile, the average wages of the employee in Donetsk region totalled UAH 12,010 and UAH 9,291 in Luhansk region (except for temporarily occupied territories).
In July 2019 compared with the same month of 2018, wages increased the most in agriculture (25%), industry (24.7%), administrative and support services (23.8%), in the field of IT and telecommunications (23.1%), in transport, warehousing, postal and courier activities (by 22%), building (20.7%), healthcare (20.7%), financial and insurance activities (18.5%), in the field of temporary accommodation and catering (18.1%), arts, sports and recreation activities (17.8%).
