{"id":520626,"date":"2026-02-25T11:41:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T08:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=520626"},"modified":"2026-02-25T12:04:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T09:04:23","slug":"average-public-sector-salary-falls-by-167-7-roubles-in-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/average-public-sector-salary-falls-by-167-7-roubles-in-january","title":{"rendered":"Average Public Sector Salary Falls by 167.7 Roubles in January"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The average nominal accrued salary of public sector employees in January amounted to 2,172.6 roubles before taxes. It decreased by 7.2 percent compared with December, or by 167.7 roubles, but remained higher than in November. From January 1, the base rate to which public sector wages are tied was increased nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>In real terms, the average salary in the public sector grew by 9.8 percent in January. These data were published by Belstat.<\/p>\n<p>In January, the ratio of wages in public sector organisations to the nationwide average stood at 78.8 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Average January salaries in the public sector were as follows:<br \/>\nin public administration \u2014 3,109.1 roubles (down 828.9 roubles month on month),<br \/>\nteachers \u2014 2,695.4 roubles (up 45.4 roubles),<br \/>\npreschool educators \u2014 1,846.3 roubles (down 37.9 roubles),<br \/>\nacademic teaching staff \u2014 3,232.8 roubles (down 403.3 roubles),<br \/>\ndoctors \u2014 4,210.3 roubles (down 261.8 roubles),<br \/>\nmid-level medical staff \u2014 2,298 roubles (down 145.8 roubles).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The average nominal accrued salary of public sector employees in January amounted to 2,172.6 roubles before taxes. It decreased by 7.2 percent compared with December, or by 167.7 roubles, but remained higher than in November. From January 1, the base rate to which public sector wages are tied was increased nationwide. In real terms, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":496488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/699ebb1c29928.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Average Public Sector Salary Falls by 167.7 Roubles in January"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-520626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}