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).
