Blog rusanalit: “Over 5 years, 75% of Russians’ real wages have practically not increased”
“As we already know, according to the data provided by the head of Rosstat, the real pension in 2013 compared to 1999 did not increase “manifold”, but only by 81%. You and I also know that real wages over the same period of time increased by 2.5 times. But what is noteworthy: according to official data from Rosstat, based on the cost of a fixed set of goods and services (FST), over the past 5 years, real wages have increased by only 12.5%.