“The head of the parliamentary committee on finance, tax and customs policy Danylo Hetmantsev said that the real living wage in Ukraine should be about 10-12 thousand hryvnias. In an interview with the Glavkom publication, he called the current figure of 2,500-3,200 hryvnias unrealistic for life, calling for an honest calculation of the consumer basket in accordance with modern prices. The People’s Deputy proposes to approve the schedule for gradual achievement of this”, — write on: ua.news
The head of the parliamentary committee on finance, tax and customs policy Danylo Hetmantsev said that the real living wage in Ukraine should be about 10-12 thousand hryvnias.
In an interview with the Glavkom publication, he called the current figure of 2,500-3,200 hryvnias unrealistic for life, calling for an honest calculation of the consumer basket in accordance with modern prices. The People’s Deputy proposes to approve the schedule for the gradual achievement of this standard over the next three to five years in order to avoid a sharp burden on the state budget.
According to the adopted law on the state budget for 2026, the total subsistence minimum increased to 3,209 hryvnias from January 1, and to 3,328 hryvnias for the able-bodied. Hetmantsev stressed that such figures are purely formal and have no connection with the actual needs of citizens. In order to finance social standards, he proposes to intensify the detinization of the economy, due to which the country does not receive more than 1 trillion hryvnias in taxes annually. One of the key steps should be the reform of the fiscal authorities and the introduction of KPIs for the officials of the State Security Service and the tax service.
In order to prevent an automatic increase in expenses for the maintenance of the state apparatus, the deputy advocated “unlinking” the salaries of judges and prosecutors from the living wage. This will make it possible to increase social payments to the most vulnerable sections of the population, without increasing the salaries of high-ranking officials. Despite the fact that from January 1, 2026, the minimum wage has increased to 8,647 hryvnias, Hetmantsev insists on its further revision to 12,000 hryvnias within the framework of the strategy of gradually increasing the welfare of Ukrainians.
Officially acquired in Ukraine validity the law “On the State Budget for 2026”, according to which the minimum wage increased from 8,000 to 8,647 hryvnias per month.
In 2026, more than half of Ukrainian employers plan to increase salaries by 10-20%. The business also maintains staff, continues to hire and actively employs veterans and internally displaced persons.
In Ukraine, the highest salaries among officials are paid by employees of collegial authorities, where the staff is smaller and the number of managers is greater.
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