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The total wage arrears in Ukraine in August of this year fell by 0.8%, since the beginning of the year it grew by 50.4% and by September 1 amounted to UAH 3.929 billion, the State Statistics Service has said.
According to its data, the amount of wage arrears at enterprises that stopped filing reports during 2019-2020 amounted to UAH 158.4 million on the same date.
According to the statistics department, the increase in wage arrears in August 2021 was recorded in Chernihiv (by 57.7%), Vinnytsia (by 34.1%), Volyn (by 11.55), Ivano-Frankivsk (by 9.1%, Kirovohrad (by 8.4%), Cherkasy (by 6, 4%), Ternopil (5.6%), Rivne (3.6%), Dnipropetrovsk (3.4%), Zhytomyr (3%) regions and Kyiv city (5.7%).
At the same time, the decrease in wage arrears was seen in Luhansk (by 39.4%), Lviv (by 24.4%), Poltava (by 13.3%), Khmelnytsky (by 10.9%), Odesa (by 8.2%), Chernivtsi (by 7, 6%), Kyiv (7.1%), Zakarpattia (6.8%), Zaporizhia (4.9%), Kherson (2.2%) and Mykolaiv (0.4%) regions.
The State Statistics Service said that among sectors in August 2021, wage arrears in financial and insurance activities grew by 1.8 times (to UAH 4.133 million), in healthcare they grew by 21.1% (to UAH 131.3 million), in the field of temporary accommodation and catering – by 14.6% (to UAH 2.346 million), arts, sports and recreation – by 10.4% (to UAH 1.955 million), in construction – by 3.1% (to UAH 87.471 million), in real estate transactions – by 2.3% (to UAH 39.4 million) UAH), wholesale and retail trade – by 1.8% (to UAH 37, 352 million), in the field of information and telecommunications – by 1.7% (to UAH 15.897 million), administrative activities – by 1.4% (to UAH 17.359 million), at transport, warehousing and courier enterprises – by 1% (to UAH 218.442 million).
At the same time, in the provision of other types of services, salary arrears decreased by 31.1% (to UAH 2.920 million), in education – by 17.2% (to UAH 16.934 million), in public administration and defense – by 16.5% (to UAH 5.468 million), in agriculture – by 11.3% (to UAH 61.350 million), in professional and scientific activities – by 5.9% (to UAH 310.227 million), and in industrial enterprises – by 0.9% (to UAH 2.976 billion).

The total wage arrears in Ukraine in November increased by 5.8% and as of December 1, 2020 amounted to UAH 4.011 billion, the State Statistics Service has reported.
According to its data, last month the amount of wage arrears to employees of economically active enterprises rose by 7.9% and as of December 1 of this year amounted to UAH 2.725 billion.
The statistics agency reported that a reduction in wage arrears in November 2020 was recorded in Kherson (by 21.1%), Rivne (by 2.5%), Zhytomyr (by 2.4%), Zaporizhia (by 1.3%), Dnipropetrovsk (0.9%) regions and Kyiv (6.3%).
At the same time, an increase in wage arrears was observed in Lviv (by 40.2%), Luhansk (by 40%), Zakarpattia (by 38.3%), Chernivtsi (by 36.5%), Volyn (by 24.1%), Kirovohrad (by 19.7%), Donetsk (by 10%), Ivano-Frankivsk (by 8.1%), Ternopil (by 7.1%), Khmelnytsky (by 4.9%), Chernihiv (by 4.7%), Poltava (by 4.6%), Vinnytsia (by 2.9%), Odesa (by 2.3%), Cherkasy (by 1.9%), Sumy (by 1.3%), Mykolaiv (1.2%), and Kyiv (0.3%) regions.
The State Statistics Service clarifies that in terms of sectors during the specified period, wage arrears decreased in the field of arts, sports and entertainment by 6.8% (to UAH 590,000), in the field of administrative and support services by 2.4% (to UAH 17.126 million), agriculture by 2% (to UAH 56.093 million), at transport, storage and courier enterprises by 1.5% (up to UAH 318.646 million), in the field of public administration and defense, mandatory social insurance by 0.3% (to UAH 5.285 million).
Wage arrears in November this year increased in provision of other types of services by 2.6 times (to UAH 1.44 million), in education by 8.9% (to UAH 17.364 million), healthcare by 8.3% (to UAH 46.892 million), at industrial enterprises by 7.1% (to UAH 3.01 billion), in wholesale and retail trade by 6.8% (to UAH 39.764 million), in the field of temporary accommodation and catering by 4.8% (to UAH 12.86 million), real estate transactions by 4.2% (to UAH 56.636 million), in the field of information and telecommunications by 4.1% (to UAH 10.919 million), in the field of professional, scientific and technical activities by 2.8% (to UAH 267.301 million), construction by 1.5% (up to UAH 49.107 million), in financial and insurance activities by 0.3% (to UAH 10.824 million).