In Ukraine, 913 current lawmakers and judges have declared that they will receive pension payments in 2025, according to data from Opendatabot based on the Unified State Register of Declarations.
This includes 55 current lawmakers and 858 judges, accounting for about 14% of the total number of officials who filed annual declarations for the past year.
Vasyl Nimchenko, who previously served as a judge on the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, declared the highest pension among lawmakers. Over the course of the year, he received 2.3 million UAH in pension payments, or over 192,000 UAH per month.
Mykhailo Novikov took second place among MPs with a pension of 1.46 million UAH per year, or nearly 122,000 UAH per month. Andrii Kozhemyakin came in third, declaring 973,000 UAH in pension payments for the year, or over 81,000 UAH per month.
At the same time, the highest pension payments among judges turned out to be even higher. The absolute record-holder was Supreme Court of Ukraine Judge Viktor Shkolyarov, who retired in 2025. His annual pension amounted to nearly 3 million UAH, or an average of 249,900 UAH per month.
Second place among judges went to Tetyana Zhayvoronok, a judge of the Supreme Court of Ukraine, with a pension of 2.85 million UAH per year, or 237,600 UAH per month. Third place went to Stepan Domuschy, a judge of the Fifth Administrative Court of Appeal, who declared a pension of 2.72 million hryvnias per year, or over 226,000 hryvnias per month.
Despite the significant difference between the highest payments, the typical pension among lawmakers and judges is nearly the same. The median pension among lawmakers is 229,600 UAH per year, and among judges, it is 227,100 UAH. This means that half of the recipients in each of these groups receive payments above this level, and half receive less.
For comparison, the average pension in Ukraine currently stands at 7,236 UAH per month, or approximately 85,000 UAH per year. Thus, a judge’s maximum monthly pension is more than 34 times higher than the national average pension.
Opendatabot notes that special pensions for members of parliament were abolished for new recipients, but some current lawmakers continue to receive high pension payments. This primarily applies to individuals who became eligible for a special pension before the pension reform, retained it through court rulings, or hold additional titles.
