Bonus for luck or qualifications: how much government officials of various ranks earn.

The Ministry of Finance for the first time disclosed data on the salaries of most federal ministers. According to published data, in 2016, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov had the highest salary - 1.7 million rubles per month, while the head of the Ministry of Construction, Mikhail Men, had the most modest salary - 446 thousand rubles.

According to Rosstat, the average monthly accrued wages of civil servants in federal government agencies amounted to 115.7 thousand rubles.

The average monthly salary of Russian government officials in public positions was 693 thousand rubles in 2016.

These include the Prime Minister, his deputies and federal ministers. State positions also include the chairmen of the State Duma and the Federation Council, deputies and senators, the head of the Accounts Chamber and its auditors, the chairman and deputy chairman of the Central Election Commission, federal judges and chairmen of the highest courts.

As RBC notes, citing data from the Ministry of Finance, the highest salary in 2016 was that of Finance Minister Anton Siluanov - 1.73 million rubles. per month.

The average monthly salary of the Minister of Economic Development was 1.27 million - at that time the position was held by Alexey Ulyukaev, who had recently been convicted of bribery.

The monthly salary of the Minister of Energy Alexander Novak was 1.16 million rubles, the head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations Vladimir Puchkov received 954 thousand rubles, and the Minister of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov received a little less - 921 thousand rubles.

The ministers of justice, sports, foreign affairs, health and education had monthly salaries ranging from 497 to 634 thousand rubles.

The heads of the Ministry of Construction and the Ministry of Agriculture had the smallest salaries - Mikhail Men received 443 thousand rubles in 2016, Alexander Tkachev - 451 thousand rubles.

There is no data on salaries in the Ministry of Defense, Ministry of Internal Affairs, FSB and SVR. Just as there is no information about the salary of the President of the Russian Federation in the open data of the Ministry of Finance.

In 2017, officials' salaries were not indexed. At the same time, departments were allowed to use the salary fund for vacant positions on a limited scale in order to provide additional payments to full-time employees.

The salary of the head of the Accounts Chamber (this position has been held by Tatyana Golikova since 2013), her deputy and all auditors averaged 668.8 thousand rubles.

The Chairman of the Constitutional Court, his deputies and judges received an average of 615 thousand rubles per month.

The average salary of a State Duma deputy in 2016 was 420 thousand rubles, senators of the Federation Council - 385 thousand rubles.

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According to Rosstat, the average monthly accrued wages of civil servants in federal government agencies amounted to 115.7 thousand rubles in 2016, which is 4% more than a year earlier.

The average salary in the Presidential Administration was 219 thousand rubles, in the government apparatus - 228 thousand rubles, in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs - 147 thousand rubles, in the Ministry of Emergency Situations - 137 thousand rubles, Rosstat notes.

At the same time, among federal departments, the smallest average salary was noted for employees of the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs (58 thousand rubles), the Federal Agency for Subsoil Use (57 thousand rubles), and the Federal Agency for National Affairs (53 thousand rubles).

The average salary of employees of the Prosecutor General's Office, according to Rosstat, in 2016 was about 84 thousand rubles, the Investigative Committee - 57.6 thousand rubles.

In February 2015, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree reducing the salaries of himself and some other officials by 10%. This document was valid until the end of 2015, then was extended for 2016 and 2017. Two months ago, Putin extended his decree for another year.

Thus, in 2018, the salaries of the head of state and the chairman of the government, deputy prime ministers and ministers, as well as the prosecutor general, the head of the Investigative Committee and the head of the Central Election Commission will be paid with a “discount” of 10%.

The salaries of the president and prime minister are not officially published. According to the official declaration, Putin earned 8 million 858 thousand 432 rubles in 2016. The total income of Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev at the end of 2016 amounted to 8.587 million rubles.

The Ministry of Finance also published data on travel expenses and expenses for maintaining company cars.

Business trips of employees of the central government apparatus are the most expensive: on foreign trips their daily allowance amounts to 270 thousand rubles, another 700 thousand rubles are allocated for travel and accommodation.

The expenses of Foreign Ministry employees for these purposes are much more modest - diplomats receive 147 thousand rubles on trips abroad. per day, and 52 thousand rubles are allocated for their accommodation.

In mid-December of this year, the president signed a decree on increasing the monthly salaries of persons holding positions in the federal public civil service: from January 1, 2018, their salaries will increase by 4%.

Super salaries

The highest salary in 2016 was the Minister of Finance - 1.73 million rubles. per month, follows from data from the Ministry of Finance. Based on Anton Siluanov’s anti-corruption declaration, salaries accounted for 22% of his income for 2016. In April, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev created a “super agency” that managed to take control of the budget deficit during a period of low oil prices. The press service of the Ministry of Finance declined to comment.

The Minister of Economic Development and the Minister of Energy received half a million less - 1.27 million and 1.16 million rubles. respectively. Until mid-November of the reporting year, 2016, the post of Minister of Economic Development was held by Alexey Ulyukaev, who was recently convicted of bribery.

Last year, the head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations (954 thousand rubles) and the Minister of Industry and Trade (921 thousand rubles) received just under a million. The top ten federal ministers with the highest salaries also included the ministers of justice, sports, foreign affairs, health care and education (range - from 497 to 634 thousand rubles).

The least of all federal ministers in 2016 were received by the head of the Ministry of Construction (443 thousand rubles per month) Mikhail Men and the head of the Ministry of Agriculture Alexander Tkachev (451 thousand rubles).

In the open data of the Ministry of Finance there is no information on salaries in the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, as well as in the secret services of the FSB and the SVR. There is also no information about the salary of the Russian President.

The average salary figures disclosed by the Ministry of Finance include payments “not included in salary.” The salaries of most ministers (as well as deputy prime ministers) consist of a fixed monetary remuneration and monthly and quarterly monetary incentives, which are established by the President of Russia (for each official individually), follows from the 2013 presidential decree.

Government, judges, deputies

The average monthly salary of Russian government officials in government positions was 693 thousand rubles in 2016. These include the Prime Minister, his deputies and federal ministers (32 people in total).

The average salary of the head of the Accounts Chamber, her deputy and all auditors was 668.8 thousand rubles. (14 people). The Constitutional Court can also boast of high salaries (615 thousand rubles) (the chairman, his deputy and judges are 16 people in total). The salaries of State Duma deputies last year amounted to 420 thousand rubles, and senators - 385 thousand rubles.

The average salary among all federal officials was 116 thousand rubles in 2016, as follows from Rosstat data. Civil servant salaries have not been indexed for four years due to the economic situation in the country. But from January 1, 2018, the salaries of officials, including those holding government positions, increased by 4% for the first time in several years.

The Ministry of Finance also published data on travel expenses of federal agencies and the cost of maintaining company cars. Thus, business trips of employees of the central government apparatus are the most expensive: for foreign trips, their daily allowance in 2016 amounted to 270 million rubles, and a total of about 700 million rubles were allocated for travel and accommodation. About 148 million rubles were spent on daily allowances for Foreign Ministry employees on trips abroad last year, and 52 million rubles were spent on their accommodation.

The original version of the note misinterpreted the Ministry of Finance data. This was not about travel expenses per day (as indicated in the original version), but about the entire amount of daily travel allowances spent by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2016.

The salaries of the president and prime minister have not been published in recent years. But in 2002, the monetary remuneration of the president was set at 63 thousand rubles, the head of government - 50.4 thousand rubles, and after that it was increased nine times - a total of 11.3 times, follows from information from the Garant system ", - up to 713 thousand and 570 thousand rubles, respectively. True, from March 2015 to the end of 2018, monetary remuneration was paid to the president and prime minister with a decrease of 10% (this was the case), that is, now it is 641.7 thousand and 513 thousand rubles. per month

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Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation
(Ministry of Finance of Russia)
general information
A country	Russia Russia
date of creation	May 16, 1992
Predecessor departments	Ministry of Finance of the Russian Empire (1802 - 1917) Ministry of Finance of the USSR (until 1991) Ministry of Finance of the RSFSR (until 1992)
The activity is managed by	Government of the Russian Federation
Higher department	Government of the Russian Federation
Headquarters	Moscow , Ilyinka street, building 9
Number of employees	1278 (as of 2012)
Minister	Siluanov Anton Germanovich
First Deputy Minister	Nesterenko Tatyana Gennadievna
State Secretary - Deputy Minister	Zubarev Yuri Ivanovich
Subordinate bodies	Treasury of Russia The Federal Tax Service Federal Customs Service Rosalkogolregulirovanie
Key document	Regulations on the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation
Website	www.minfin.ru

History of the Ministry of Finance

In 1512, during the reign of Grand Duke Vasily III, the State Order was mentioned for the first time. His management included the production and storage of valuables from the royal treasury, trade operations for royal needs, and the financing of nationally important projects. Since 1649, financial law and treasury affairs were regulated by the Council Code.

In November 1991, the Ministry of Finance of the RSFSR was merged with the Ministry of Economy of the RSFSR into one Ministry of Economy and Finance of the RSFSR. And already in November 1991, the USSR Ministry of Finance was liquidated, and its enterprises and organizations were transferred to the subordination of the Ministry of Economy and Finance of the RSFSR.

By Presidential Decree No. 156 of February 19, 1992, the Ministry of Economy and Finance of the RSFSR was again divided into two ministries - the Ministry of Economy of the RSFSR and the Ministry of Finance of the RSFSR. In addition, on December 25, 1991, the RSFSR was renamed the Russian Federation.

Competence of the Ministry of Finance

The Ministry of Finance develops public policy and carries out legal regulation in the following areas:

• budgetary, tax, insurance, foreign exchange and banking activities;
• organization of the preparation and execution of the federal budget;
• credit cooperation;
• accounting and financial reporting;
• production, processing and circulation of precious metals and precious stones;
• customs payments and determination of the customs value of goods;
• formation and investment of pension savings, including those included in the payment reserve;
• organization and conduct of lotteries and gambling;
• production and circulation of security printed products;
• financial support of the civil service;
• investing savings for housing provision for military personnel - participants in the savings-mortgage system;
• state regulation of the activities of non-state pension funds, management companies, specialized depositories and actuaries for non-state pension provision, compulsory pension insurance and professional pension insurance (with the exception of state regulation of legal relations between the non-state pension fund and participants of the non-state pension fund, insured persons and their legal successors, as well as in terms of legal relations, the subject of which is the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation);
• state regulation in the field of shared construction of apartment buildings and (or) other real estate, credit history bureaus.

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The Ministry of Finance revealed the salaries of ministers in 2016

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The Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation, as part of its open data, for the first time published average monthly salaries in federal government agencies for 2016.

The highest salary in 2016 was that of the head of the Ministry of Finance Anton Siluanov - 1.73 million rubles per month. The Minister of Economic Development and the Minister of Energy received 1.27 million and 1.16 million rubles, respectively. Until mid-November of the reporting year, 2016, the position of Minister of Economic Development was held by Alexey Ulyukaev.

The head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations earned 954 thousand rubles last year, the Minister of Industry and Trade earned 921 thousand rubles.

The average monthly salary of Russian government officials in public positions was 693 thousand rubles in 2016. These include the Prime Minister, his deputies and federal ministers (32 people in total).

The average salary of the head of the Accounts Chamber, her deputy and all auditors was 668.8 thousand rubles (14 people). 615 thousand rubles were received by the Constitutional Court (chairman, his deputy and judges - 16 people in total). The salaries of State Duma deputies last year amounted to 420 thousand rubles, and senators - 385 thousand rubles.

From January 1, 2018, the salaries of officials, including those holding government positions, will be indexed by 4% for the first time in several years. In 2015, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree to reduce salaries for himself, the prime minister, parliamentarians, government staff and the presidential administration, as well as the leadership of the special services.

For the first time, the Russian Ministry of Finance disclosed data on the salaries of employees of federal government departments, including information on the salaries of ministers, albeit for 2016.

Ministerial salaries

The top ten highest salaries of Cabinet employees in 2016 include the following ministers:

• Finance Minister Anton Siluanov - 1.73 million rubles per month. Judging by the minister's anti-corruption declaration, the salary amounted to 22% of his annual income;
• Minister of Economic Development - 1.27 million rubles (until mid-November, this position was held by Alexey Ulyukaev, convicted of bribery, and now - Maxim Oreshkin);
• Energy Minister Alexander Novak - 1.16 million rubles;
• head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations Vladimir Puchkov - 954 thousand rubles;
• Minister of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov - 921 thousand rubles;
• Minister of Justice Alexander Konovalov - 633,800 rubles;
• Minister of Sports Pavel Kolobkov - 612,600 rubles;
• Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov - 507 thousand rubles;
• Minister of Health Veronika Skvortsova - 506,900 rubles;
• Minister of Education and Science Olga Vasilyeva - 496,600 rubles;

The list of federal ministers with the highest salaries also includes Minister of Justice Alexander Konovalov and Minister of Sports Pavel Kolobkov. They received monthly salaries ranging from 497,000 to 634,000 rubles.

The salaries of most ministers consist of a fixed monetary remuneration and monthly and quarterly monetary incentives, which are established by the President of Russia (for each official individually).

Ministers' incomes

Ministers also annually declare their income (the amount of their salaries is not indicated):

• Finance Minister Anton Siluanov - income in 2016 amounted to 95.4 million rubles;
• Minister of Economic Development Alexey Ulyukaev (until November 2016) - 59.9 million rubles;
• Energy Minister Alexander Novak - 17.2 million rubles;
• head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations Vladimir Puchkov - 12.2 million rubles;
• Minister of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov - 129.4 million rubles;
• Minister of Justice Alexander Konovalov - 7.2 million rubles;
• Minister of Sports Pavel Kolobkov - 5.7 million rubles
• Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov - 6.8 million rubles;
• Minister of Health Veronika Skvortsova - 6.6 million rubles;
• Minister of Education and Science Olga Vasilyeva - 6 million rubles.

RBC also writes about the declaration of Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev - 8.6 million rubles, and his salary in 2016 amounted to 513 thousand rubles per month.

Officially, the salaries of the prime minister and president, as well as the ministers of defense and internal affairs, heads of the FSB and the Foreign Intelligence Service are not published by the Ministry of Finance.

Other employees:

• the average salary of managers and auditors of the Accounts Chamber is 668,800 rubles;
• salary of the chairman and judges of the Constitutional Court - 615 thousand rubles;
• State Duma deputies receive 420 thousand rubles;
• members of the Federation Council - 385 thousand rubles;

The average salary among all federal officials in 2016 was 116 thousand rubles, as follows from Rosstat data.

In October, Vladimir Putin extended a 10% pay cut for top government officials, including himself.