People's deputies "rise": why in the budget project for 2025 raise the salary to the deputies, not the military
28 million for the activity of one deputy - by UAH 650 thousand more than it was in 2024. It turns out that the monthly work of the People's Deputy costs 190 thousand hryvnias. From the annual amount of expenses for the activity of deputies, 90 thousand hryvnias will go to compensation for the fare of Ukraine, another 240 thousand hryvnias will be spent on compensation for the cost of renting a home or hotel room. The payroll fund will be about UAH 1. 6 million.
According to the law, each MP can hire up to four assistants under an employment contract. Separately 1. 36 billion hryvnias will be spent on service, organizational, information-analytical and logistical support of the activities of the Council of Parliament. Parliament is covered by the means of television and radio broadcasting and financial support of the Voice of Ukraine newspaper another UAH 78. 29 million.
It is important to understand that 190 thousand hryvnias are not a net income of the People's Deputy, notes in conversation with focus a People's Deputy from "European Solidarity", a member of the Committee of the Council on Budget Alexei Goncharenko. "A total of UAH 2. 28 million a year does not go to one deputy's pocket. The funds are intended for salaries of their assistants and other expenses for activities. A net deputy salary is about 50,000 hryvnias.
The heads of committees, their deputies receive a little more," - explains the politician. Employees of the Accounting Chamber receive up to 400,000 hryvnias a month, so the deputies are not the highest official income, Goncharenko continued. It should be noted that on October 30, 2024, the Verkhovna Rada adopted a bill on the reform of the Accounting Chamber, which allows to increase the salaries of its members.
The document is European integration, it was adopted to obtain a loan from the IMF and the US in the amount of more than $ 2 billion. It is noteworthy that the draft budget for the next year does not envisage raising social payments and increasing salaries to the Ukrainian military. People's Deputy Olga Vasilevskaya-Smaglyuk said that money for the military could be found by redistributing them from other programs.
The liquidation of the Road Fund by UAH 43 billion is one of the examples of sources of funds. Another article is the cancellation of the salaries of judges of liquidated courts. Tens of millions of hryvnias go to non -working people. According to Alexei Goncharenko, it is quite obvious that in the fourth year of a full -scale war it is not necessary to increase expenditures on the bureaucracy, including people's deputies.
Goncharenko recalled that he submitted to the Council a bill on reducing the salaries of people's deputies to the average level in the country at the level of 15 thousand hryvnias. "It is not correct that raising the salaries of the Armed Forces did not put in the budget for 2025. Frozen social payments, but at the same time the tax, bebb and prosecutor's office again went to promotion. The prosecutor General's Office, of course, will be less expenditures than first discussed.
The activities of the department will cost more, respectively, the salaries of prosecutors will increase, "he says. Not all experts agree with the thesis to save on the state sector in the conditions of war. The head of the Eidos Center, political scientist Victor Taran is convinced of the need to increase salaries to deputies, as well as officials of local and central authorities, three times. Cheap managers, according to him, are expensive to the state.
The consequence of salaries on salaries will be poor management decisions and lack of specialists. "The salaries of deputies and officials in Europe and the United States are twice or three times higher than the country's average. In the event of a decrease in salaries, representatives of the authorities will have to look for illegal sources Political scientist in conversation with focus. Business managers earn more times and are unlikely to agree to work for 20,000 hryvnias per state.
As for the additional costs of deputies' travel, apartments and public transportation, all this is in European countries, he notes in conversation with focus. Analysis of the Data of the Ministry of Finance on the number of employees about 50 central authorities and their average salaries in 2024 of the publication of "Economic Truth" showed that the low salaries of Ukrainian officials are a myth. In July, the average salary of central authorities exceeded 50 thousand hryvnias, which is 2.
5 times higher than the official average in Ukraine. At the expert level, the average salary increased to 40 thousand hryvnias in six months. It is leading the amount of salaries of the Ministry of Economy: taking into account the management composition the average amounted to 103 thousand hryvnias. The level of salary of experts of the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Defense has exceeded 50 thousand hryvnias.
The conclusion from the analysis is as follows: the bureaucratic sector, like business, still feels a shortage of personnel. At a meeting with students on November 17, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky emphasized that the Great War increased the personnel problem in state institutions. The head of state believes that the personnel famine in the State Institutions is solved by the maximum opening of the sector and increasing wages in it.