News
25.07.2016
23% growth of wages in agriculture
Due to the State Statistics Service of Ukraine, in first five months of 2015 average salary in agriculture has reached 3445 UAH which is 23% extra comparing to preceding years. At the same time, level of wages in agriculture is 26% less than average wage in Ukraine being one of the lowest within all the industries. Lowest level of wages was noted within medicine, culture and education industries.
Weak pace of wage growth comparing to inflation and lack of social infrastructure narrows rural population. Thus, during 2015 Ukraine has lost 76 thousands of citizens.
Despite low wages in agriculture, number of employed citizens remain at notable level of 17,5% comparing to the overall amount of employed workforce in Ukraine.
