Real wages in Ukraine in October increased by 9.2 percent compared with October 2018, while compared with September 2019 they decreased by 0.3 percent, the State Statistics Service has said.
According to the agency, the average nominal wage of full time employees in October compared with September increased by 0.4 percent, in annual terms (from October 2018) it also rose by 16.4 percent, amounting to Hr 10,727, which is 2.6 times more than the minimum wage (Hr 4,173).
The service says that in September it amounted to Hr 10,687, in August some Hr 10,573, in July some Hr 10,971, and in June to Hr 10,783.
According to the statistics agency, the largest increase in the average wage of full time employees in October compared with October 2018 was observed in Luhansk (by 22.5 percent), Kyiv (by 20.8 percent), Mykolaiv (by 20.6 percent), Donetsk (by 19.5 percent), Dnipropetrovsk (by 18.6 percent), Zaporizhia (by 17.9 percent), Cherkasy (by 17.7 percent), Ternopil (by 17.5 percent), Ivano-Frankivsk and Vinnytsia (by 16.6 percent), Chernihiv (by 16.2 percent), Sumy (by 15.9 percent), Chernivtsi and Khmelnytsky (by 15.2 percent), Rivne (by 15.1 percent), Odesa and Volyn (15 percent), Kharkiv (14.8 percent), Poltava (14.6 percent), Kherson (13.8 percent), Zhytomyr (13.2 percent), Lviv (by 13.1 percent), Kirovohrad (by 12.2 percent) regions and in Kyiv (by 14.5 percent).
The highest level of wages in October was recorded in Kyiv at Hr 15,862, the lowest in Chernivtsi region at Hr 8,211.
At the same time, average wages in Donetsk region amounted to Hr 11,952, Luhansk region some Hr 9,095 (except for the temporarily occupied territories).
