The average nominal salary accrued for January-October 2021 in the Lipetsk region amounted to 39,128 rubles. Compared to the same period last year, its size turned out to be 8.1% higher. Real wages, calculated taking into account the consumer price index, increased by 0.5% over the year. In October 2021, it amounted to 99.5% of the level of 2020, Lipetskstat reports.
The highest salaries are for metallurgists, financiers and insurers, power engineers, food workers, communications workers, manufacturers of tobacco products and computers, electronics, chemicals, paper products, medicines and medical materials. The gap between their salaries and the regional average is 1.8 – 1.1 times.
The lowest salaries are for furniture and textile manufacturers, fishing, hotels, public catering, woodworking, tanners, printers, and real estate specialists.
But the salary of agricultural workers since the beginning of the year amounted to 104% of the average for the region. The average monthly nominal gross wages of workers in education, as well as health and social services amounted to 78% and 88%, respectively, of the regional average, writes GOROD48.