The Ministry of Finance plans to suspend the indexation of the salaries of officials who already receive more than the average Russian

The Ministry of Finance next year may abandon the indexation of salaries of civil servants. This follows from the methodology for calculating the marginal basic budget allocations of the federal budget for the next three years, which RBC quotes.

The document does not indicate how much money it will be possible to save next year due to the rejection of indexing the salaries of officials. This measure is indicated in the list of others to correct the basic budget allocations and sounds as "refusal in 2021 from indexing wages (with the exception of the monetary allowance of military personnel) and optimizing the schedule for the reform of federal civil servants in 2021 and 2022."

The Ministry of Finance also expects to save 150 billion rubles. Due to the refusal to pay subsidies to regional budgets for the execution of key performance indicators (KPI) by governors. The system for evaluating the work of the heads of regions involves 15 criteria, including the level of confidence in power, the natural growth of the population, the availability of housing, the level of poverty and so on. It was argued that the motivation for its implementation by the governors was to be an increase in the regional budget.

In March 2015, Putin, by his decree, reduced by 10% the salary of the president, the head of government, the Minister of Defense, the Minister of the Interior and a number of other senior officials. The same decree by 10% temporarily cut the salaries of deputies and senators, federal civil servants of the Presidential Administration, the Office of the Accounts Chamber and the Government apparatus, but since 2019, officials began to receive a salary in the same volume , which had previously received an “anti -crisis” decision. What was the return of the return of previous earnings to officials, the authorities were not specified.

According to Rosstat, in 2018, the average salary of civil servants in the federal authorities was 126.6 thousand rubles. The most highly paid at the same time were employees of the government apparatus (240.4 thousand rubles). And in 2019, the average salary of federal civil servants exceeded 130 thousand rubles . This is three times higher than the average salary of Russians in 2018.