Average monthly wage by region for August 2020, UAH.
Total wage arrears in Ukraine in April 2019 increased by 6.2%, and as of May 1, 2019 amounted to UAH 2.615 billion, the State Statistics Service has reported.
According to its data, in April 2019 the amount of wage arrears at economically active enterprises increased by 10.6% and as of May 1, 2019 amounted to UAH 1.416 billion.
The decline in wage arrears in April 2019 were recorded in Khmelnytsky (by 14.2%), Zhytomyr (by 2.6%), Poltava (by 2.2%) and Mykolaiv (by 0.9%) regions.
The growth of wage arrears was seen in Lviv (by 75.3%), Chernivtsi (by 49%), Kherson (by 18.1%), Ternopil (by 17.2%), Dnipropetrovsk (by 13.3%), Vinnytsia (by 10.9% ), Zakarpattia (by 8.1%), Chernihiv (by 7.7%), Donetsk (by 6.9%), Cherkasy (by 5.7%), Sumy (by 4.9%), Zaporizhia (by 3.6%), Odesa (by 3.3%), Kharkiv (by 3.2%), Rivne (by 2.1%), Luhansk (by 2%) regions and Kyiv city (by 10.3%).
The State Statistics Service said that in April 2019, the wage arrears decreased in the field of administrative and support services – by 10.8% (to UAH 8.59 million); temporary accommodation and catering – by 10.5% (to UAH 0.365 million); construction – by 3.1% (to UAH 70.07 million); in the woodworking industry – by 2.5% (to UAH 13.948 million), the chemical industry – by 2.2% (to UAH 80.904 million) and food production – by 0.8% (to UAH 92.317 million).
The debt in the sphere of in the arts, sports, entertainment and recreation increased almost twice (to UAH 1.85 million), IT and telecom – by 50.7% (to UAH 5.92 million), health care – by 21% (up to UAH 13.62 million); education – by 18.2% (to UAH 7.61 million); in the mining and quarrying industry – by 14.7% (to UAH 526.129 million); professional, scientific and technical activities – by 12.9% (to UAH 128.76 million); textile production – by 10.7% (to UAH 6.027 million); agriculture – by 9.5% (to UAH 21.85 million); in the sphere of residential services – by 8.9% (up to 113.69 million UAH); in engineering – by 5% (to UAH 943.93 million); the production of rubber and plastic products – by 4.9% (to UAH 30.326 million); in the sphere of wholesale and retail trade – by 4.3% (to UAH 43.96 million); real estate operations – by 2.8% (to UAH 57.98 million); financial and insurance activities – by 2.3% (to UAH 18.34 million); transport – by 1.7% (to UAH 177.51 million); state administration and defense, compulsory social insurance – by 1.2% (to UAH 3.79 million).
The total amount of wage arrears in Ukraine in May 2018 increased by 3.5%, and as of June 1, 2018 amounted to UAH 2.561 billion, the State Statistics Service has said. According to its data, in May 2018 wage arrears at economically active enterprises increased by 6.5% and on June 1 this year amounted to UAH 1.411 billion.
Wage arrears in May 2018 increased in Ternopil (17.5%), Zakarpattia (13.6%), Ivano-Frankivsk (11.8%), Kherson (9.2%), Sumy (7.9%), Zaporizhia (7.2%), Mykolaiv (6.2%), Kharkiv (5.6%) and Luhansk (5.4%) regions.
At the same time, the decline of wage arrears was recorded in Volyn (34.2%), Chernivtsi (8.3%), Zhytomyr (3.6%), Poltava (2.9%), Odesa (1.4%), Rivne (0.8%) regions and Kyiv city (1.7%).
According to the statistics service, in May 2018 arrears in payment of wages increased in the sphere of healthcare – by 12.1%, to UAH 23.9 million, industry – by 3.9%, to UAH 2.036 billion, construction – by 2.2%, to UAH 82.3 million and agriculture – by 7.7%, to UAH 17.4 million.
The wage arrears fell by 0.2% in the professional, scientific and technical activity, to UAH 113.4 million, in financial and insurance activity – by 0.5%, to UAH 17 million and in the sphere of arts, sports, entertainment and recreation – by 10.4%, to UAH 1.4 million.
