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).
