Salaries of university teachers per year. Teachers' salaries in Russia and their increase

Let us remind you: Vladimir Putin signed a series of 11 decrees after the start of his third term, in May 2012. According to these documents, by 2018, the salaries of doctors, university teachers and researchers should have been 200% of the regional average.

According to the Moscow State University teacher, since the beginning of the year, employees have received 2.5–3 times more than usual, the total amounts amounted to 100–120 thousand rubles. Professors and employees of the Moscow Aviation Institute also reported a sudden increase in salaries.

Salaries at the Moscow City Clinical Hospital have doubled. S.P. Botkin. “Suddenly, out of nowhere, a “stimulus payment” appeared in an unusually large amount, as well as congratulations on March 8 in the form of a bonus of 6 thousand rubles. Well, and promises of salary increases to cosmic proportions in the near future,” one of the hospital doctors told RBC.

A source in the capital’s health department told the publication that in early March, the heads of Moscow hospitals received instructions to equalize salaries in accordance with the May decrees.

Salaries for employees of Moscow institutions have been increased regularly since 2013, explain the press service of the Moscow Department of Economic Policy. “Based on the results of 2017 and the first months of 2018, city institutions achieved the level of wages provided for by the [May] decrees. All payments were carried out as planned and are not one-time in nature,” the department reported.

Federal healthcare institutions are also talking about increasing salaries. Several employees of the Federal Research Institute of Eye Diseases named after. Helmholtz.

Reports of salary increases are also coming from the regions. Thus, according to the co-chairman of the interregional trade union of healthcare workers “Action” Andrei Konoval, the union received messages about a sharp increase in wages in the Novgorod region and Izhevsk.

An employee of the Valdai Regional Psychoneurological Hospital in the Novgorod Region confirmed that the doctors and nurses of this institution were paid bonuses to their salaries for December-February. “For the first time, nurses were paid 15 thousand rubles, doctors - 10 thousand rubles, nurses - nothing. They explained to us that this was being done to implement the “road map”, I don’t know which one. In January, doctors were paid 10 thousand rubles, nurses 5.8 thousand rubles, nurses again nothing. For February they also gave the nurses 2 thousand.”

The regions were tasked with reporting on the implementation of the May decrees on increasing wages before the Russian presidential elections. Rosstat data shows a significant differentiation of salaries by region: for example, doctors (according to January data) receive from 40.5 thousand rubles. in Kabardino-Balkaria up to 174 thousand rubles. in Chukotka, school teachers - from 19.9 thousand rubles. (Dagestan) up to 80.6 thousand rubles. (Moscow) and 91.7 thousand rubles. (Chukotka). Salaries for scientific employees range from 36 thousand rubles. in the Leningrad region up to 172 thousand rubles. in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug.

The sharp increase in wages for the “May” categories of workers was included in the federal budget adopted in the fall - the authorities planned to achieve target indicators starting in 2018. In 2018, 194.8 billion rubles were allocated to bring the salaries of “May” state employees to the required level. - by 108 billion rubles. more than in 2017, as follows from the explanatory note to the draft budget.

In 2019–2020, it is also necessary to spend 200 billion rubles for these purposes, because the government has decided to maintain the achieved target levels for the salaries of doctors, teachers, teachers and researchers, social workers and cultural workers after 2018.

Rosstat was instructed to conduct official monitoring of salaries of “certain categories of workers” to monitor the implementation of the May decrees in order to increase the average salaries of the “May” categories of workers to 100 or 200% (depending on the category) of the average labor income in the relevant regions by 2018. Average labor income is a broader indicator than salaries in organizations; it also includes earnings in the informal sector.

Rosstat does not yet have an estimate of average labor income for the whole of 2017 and for January 2018, but based on the indicator for January-September last year (33.8 thousand rubles in the country as a whole) and the growth rate of nominal wages, target levels for wages “May” categories were achieved or even exceeded in January.

The Ministry of Education and Science claimed in February that the average teacher salary reached target values ​​in all regions back in 2017. Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets said on March 2 that the targets for increasing salaries of public sector employees have been met.

However, not all state employees are lucky.

Scientists of the Novosibirsk Akademgorodok are forced to write applications for transfer to part-time while maintaining their existing salaries, reports the website “Sibir. Realities." This is done so that the management of scientific institutes can report on the implementation of Vladimir Putin’s “May decrees”, which provided for an increase in the income of scientific workers.

“Since elections are just around the corner, and the May decrees regarding wages have not been implemented, they issued an order to us. There are 17 research workers in the laboratory, and a research worker should receive 62,500 rubles. But the money was not given in full. Therefore, we are being transferred to 0.5 rates from March 1, so that according to statistics there will be an increase in salaries,” said an employee of one of the institutes of Akademgorodok, who wished to remain anonymous.

​The order signed by the leadership of the Institute of Cytology and Genetics of the Sibri Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences “On the implementation of the May decrees” states: “Financing of the increase in wages should be planned on the basis of all available sources.” Similar orders have been made in other institutes of Akademgorodok. The alternative in this case is this: either halve the number of rates or fire half of the employees. Otherwise, the leadership of the institutes will part with their positions.

Voronezh journalists recently conducted a study regarding the salaries of doctors and nurses, and the result literally shocked the public. The facts literally speak of mockery of representatives of the most humane profession in the Voronezh region. So, a physiotherapist can count on a salary of 5 thousand 400 rubles. At the same time, a laboratory assistant in an X-ray room is offered 7 thousand 800 rubles, and a cleaning lady in a maternity hospital will receive 8 thousand 500 rubles.Users reacted quite painfully to this data. In their opinion, with such salaries there will soon be no doctors left in the region. So residents will switch to self-medication with herbs, roots and toad decoctions.

The government allocated for teachers’ salaries:

• 42 billion rubles in 2016;
• 60 billion rubles in 2017;
• 76 billion rubles in 2018;
• 79 billion rubles in 2019.

According to the relevant department, in 2016 the average salary of teaching staff reached 54 thousand rubles and continues to grow.

The given data exceeds the average salary in the country as a whole, but reality shows that many teachers are dissatisfied with working conditions, in particular with the amount of wages. Every fifth teacher wants to quit and find a higher-paying job.

Despite the outflow of personnel, the workload on teachers has not increased, but decreased. If in 2013 there were 11 students per teacher, then in 2015 there were 9.5, and this figure continues to decline.

It was said above that the average salary of teachers in state universities is 54 thousand rubles. In reality, there is a wide variation, because salaries vary greatly depending on the region, specific higher education institution, position and scientific degree of the teacher. A young teacher earns much less than a professor.

For example, if the average salary of deans is 100-120 thousand rubles, then the junior teaching staff is 40-45 thousand.

A teacher’s salary consists of the following components:

• salary;
• compensation allowances;
• incentive bonuses;
• regional coefficient.

For example, a young teacher’s salary will be based on the base rate. He shouldn’t really count on additional payments and allowances. For senior teaching staff, the size of the bonus depends on length of service and scientific credentials. An associate professor will have one additional payment, a professor will have another, a candidate of sciences will receive one allowance, and a doctor will receive another. The region influences the increase in income. If in Chelyabinsk the regional coefficient multiplies wages by 1.15, then in the regions of the Far North - by 2.

Amount of surcharge

1. Associate Professor – 40% of the official salary.
2. Processor – 60% of the official salary.
3. Candidate of Sciences – 3,000 rubles.
4. Doctor of Science – 7,000 rubles.

For military and police officers:

• 10% – for a candidate of sciences;
• 25% – for Doctor of Science;
• 10% – for an assistant professor;
• 25% - for the professor.

A selection of average salaries by Russian regions

In Moscow, the average salary of teachers in higher educational institutions is 80 thousand rubles, but depending on the position and regalia, it ranges from 20 to 150 thousand. Some deans and rectors earn even more.

The most modest salary in the Russian capital is paid to the Moscow State Administration of Veterinary Medicine and Biotechnology - 22,000. This is quite a bit higher than the regional minimum wage. Even the famous Moscow State University is not the leader in salaries - 56,000. Moscow State Law Academy pays much more - 82,000. The leader is the Russian State University of Innovation and Entrepreneurship - 97,000.

There is also a wide range of salaries in St. Petersburg:

• Teachers at the State Agrarian University are paid the least – 20,000;
• the salary in the GHPA is slightly higher - 23,000;
• at the Academy of Russian Ballet (Vaganovka) they pay 60,000.
• salary of LETI teachers – 68,000;
• at St. Petersburg Mining University - 75,000.

An assistant professor is a teaching position in higher education. To work in this position, you must obtain the academic title of candidate or doctor of science.

Let's consider how much an assistant professor earns in Russia and other countries.

Country income statistics

The average salary of an assistant professor in Russia in 2018 is 25,000 rubles.

Report on how much assistant professors earn in different regions of the country (RUB):

1. Voronezh region - 29,000;
2. Krasnodar region - 22,200;
3. Kemerovo region. - 22,000;
4. Irkutsk region - 21,300;
5. Krasnoyarsk Territory - 20,300;
6. Kaliningrad region - 15,500;
7. Vladimirskaya - 15,200;
8. Altai Territory - 11,000;
9. Republic of Bashkortostan - 10,600.

Average salaries are calculated based on open vacancies by profession.

The salary of an assistant professor in Moscow is significantly higher than the national average - 50,000 rubles.

Earning levels in different educational institutions

• 50,000 rub. per month - the salary of an assistant professor, according to statements by the management of the educational institution at Samara Technical University. The figure for how much teachers at a university earn is more than the regional average - 33 thousand rubles.
• Teachers at Moscow State University earn good money. The salary of an assistant professor at Moscow State University is 79,500 rubles.
• The salary of the teaching staff at St. Petersburg State University is 64,500 rubles. Although the teachers themselves complain that actual salaries are significantly lower than the stated average for the educational institution. The assistant professor receives a little more than 14,000 rubles. per month .
• Also, things are going well with the salaries of teaching staff in educational institutions that have federal status. For example, in Southern Federal University the salary of a university associate professor is on average 25,000 rubles. This is the rate + federal surcharge.

The most open vacancies in the scientific profession are in the following regions of the country:

• Chelyabinsk - 13.5%;
• Leningradskaya - 13%;
• Moscow - 13%;
• Novosibirsk -12%;
• Tverskaya - 7%.

Open vacancies and possible income figures in Russia:

• 60,000 rub. — assistant professor’s salary for an open vacancy at the Academy of the Investigative Committee from the direct employer. At least 3 years of work experience in the profession is required and the applicant has an academic degree: doctor, possibly candidate of science.
• 90-210 thousand rubles. promise at the Civil Engineering Institute in St. Petersburg. Requirements for a future employee: spoken English, publication of 1-2 research articles per year, work experience - 3-6 years, respectively higher education. Opportunity for career and scientific growth.
• Assistant professor required for the Faculty of Foreign Languages ​​at St. Petersburg State University. Salary - 53-100 thousand rubles. before deduction of personal income tax. Working conditions: quarterly and annual bonuses, vacation - 56 days, etc.
• in Novotroitsk, Orenburg region. They promise a salary of 22,000 rubles. Work at the National Foundation of the Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Professional Education "NUST "MISIS".

Calculating the profit of a researcher

The monthly base salary of an assistant professor is about 10 thousand rubles.

Various additional payments influence the final monthly salary of an assistant professor:

• bonuses;
• additional payments for length of service;
• possible grants;
• performing administrative work;
• additional payments for research work.

The total is around 17,000 rubles.

Profit in different countries of the world ($/month):

1. Saudi Arabia - 6,600.
2. Canada - 6500.
3. USA - 5800.
4. Australia - 4800.
5. New Zealand - 4500.
6. UK - 4300.
7. Germany - 4300.
8. Japan - 4100.
9. South Africa - 4000.
10. France - 3900.
11. Malaysia - 3100.
12. Argentina - 3000.
13. Colombia - 2800.
14. India - 1500.
15. China - 1100.

As you can see, the average salary of a teacher in Russia, $450, is 2.5 times less than in China and 14.5 times less than in Saudi Arabia.

For example, the salary of an assistant professor at Lobachevsky Lobachevsky State University with all allowances is on average 19,000 rubles. , which is about 340 US dollars.

Income situation in neighboring countries

Belarus. Specialists in Minsk and the Minsk region receive the most - about 1,300 Belarusian rubles. rub . The national average is 600 BYN. rub .

Ukraine. The average salary in the country is UAH 6,000.

In the capital and large regional centers the situation is better - the average salary with all payments is about 10,000 UAH.

How will wages increase in the future?

According to the presidential decree, the salary of an assistant professor in 2018-2019 should increase in May. The decree was issued back in May 2017.

This increase can lead to an increase in the level of knowledge in the country.

Teachers and skeptics have concerns that due to the difficult economic situation in the country, the promised increase will not happen.

In earlier years, 2012-2013, the country’s authorities already gave teachers hope for salary increases of 130% of the regional average for their work.

But even in 2018, in some regions, the salary of candidates of science working in their profession does not reach 50% of the average salary.

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The salaries of teachers at all levels will be increased by 6% from the beginning of 2019, which will cost the budget an additional subsidy of 109,077.8 million rubles. After indexation, the salary of secondary school teachers will reach 44,760 rubles, teachers teaching at universities - 93,000 rubles, preschool teachers - 34,700 rubles. Since 2013, wages for teaching staff have increased by 40-117%. For the next 3 years, further salary increases are planned by 5.4-6.6% annually.

Will there be a teacher salary increase in 2019?

Teachers, regardless of their field of activity, belong to the category of “May state employees,” that is, their salaries are regulated and controlled at the government level. This is due to the catastrophically low incomes of teachers, especially young professionals, the outflow of professional workers from the industry, and the decline in the prestige of the profession itself.

The order to systematically increase teachers' incomes was first given by the country's President V.V. Putin. in May 2012, according to which, by 2018, salaries should increase to 100% of the average regional income for:

• school teachers;
• teachers and masters of vocational educational institutions;
• teachers working with orphans.

In addition, wages should not be lower than 100% of the average salary in the field of education in the region, and for teachers of additional education - 100% of teachers’ income.

For 6 years, teaching staff salaries were indexed at the federal and regional levels, which made it possible to achieve high indicators across the country. But if we consider nominal wages at the level of regions and municipal entities, the picture is not so rosy.

Table 1. Salary level of teachers based on the results of the first quarter of 2018.

Speciality		Planned indicators	Actual salary
			Around the country	At the federal level	At the regional level	In municipal institutions
	%	100	88,5	113	120,9	86,2
	rub.	36 974	32 718	41 773	44 716	31 876
	%	100	112,4	197	161	100,8
	rub.	37 564	42 226	73 990	60 466	37 876
	%	100	95,2	115,7	121,3	90,8
	rub.	41 698	39697	48245	50580	37862
	%	100	109,5	109,4	109,6	69,8
	rub.	37 564	41 146	41 080	41 171	26 210
	%	100	101,7	–	98,8	122,5
	rub.	37 564	38 201	–	37 101	46 004
University teachers	%	200	230	230	270	137,6
	rub.	75 128	87 695	87 347	101 225	51 688

Source: Rosstat

The most striking examples of the dispersion of earnings in federal and municipal educational institutions are:

1. Income from the work of school teachers. Thus, in the Nenets Autonomous Okrug of the Arkhangelsk Region. salary in the region - 101,681 rubles. and even in a rural school in the Yamalo-Nenets District - 113,826 rubles. Whereas in Dagestan a teacher receives 21,389 rubles, and in rural schools in the Kostroma region. ‒ 24,051 rub.
2. Remuneration of university teachers. In relative terms, income levels range from 137 to 270%. Considering the regional coefficients, the spread in physical terms is even more striking: for example, in Ugra, top-level teachers are paid 162,932 rubles, and in the Ivanovo region at a municipal-level university - 45,419 rubles.

This discrepancy in indicators is explained not only by the regional level of income of the population, but also by the inability of some entities to provide high salaries to public sector employees.

To maintain the achieved indicators, the government is forced to subsidize the regions. Therefore, the proposal of the Ministry of Education and Science in March 2018 to increase the salaries of all teachers or school teachers, in particular, by up to 150%, remained without support.

However, in May, the president made a recommendation to keep teachers’ incomes at the achieved level and not allow them to decline against the backdrop of an increase in the minimum wage and an increase in the well-being of Russians. Presidential decrees are reflected in the draft budget for 2019, which clearly reflects whether there will be an increase in teachers' salaries.

The bill provides for a systematic plan for the period from 2019 to 2021, including the salaries of educators, teachers and teachers of universities and colleges.

How much will the salary increase?

According to the explanatory note to the draft budget, teachers' salaries in 2019 should increase by 6%. For these purposes, appropriations in the amount of 109 billion rubles will be required. To keep incomes at the same level and raise salaries, subsidies will be increased by 16.1% compared to last year. Such calculations were provided by the Accounts Chamber to the State Duma for the adoption of the federal budget.

In addition, further growth in wages for educators, teachers, middle and senior teachers is also planned:

• by 5.4% in 2020, which will require 120 billion rubles;
• by 6.6% in 2021, which will require additional allocations of about RUB 134 billion.

First of all, the increase will affect teachers of federal educational institutions. Similar steps must be taken in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation. Moreover, the salary increase may be more than the recommended 6%.

By the end of October 2018, most regions should consider projects or approve local budgets, after which it will be clear how much teachers’ salaries in regional and municipal schools and other educational institutions will be increased.

When will there be a promotion?

Many traditionally link the recalculation of teachers' salaries to September 1. Indeed, promotions are often carried out at the local level from the start of the school year. So, in, and in St. Petersburg, wages were increased by 4,000 rubles.

However, the target increase for 2019 is planned from the beginning of the calendar year, that is, teachers should receive salaries in a new way based on the results of work in January. But this does not exclude repeated recalculations throughout the year, for example, by September 1 or Teacher’s Day. But teachers usually receive such “gifts” from local authorities.

What will be the average teacher salary?

The remuneration system for teachers provides for the use, in addition to salaries, incentive payments and other allowances. Moreover, some increases are distributed by decision of the management of the educational institution. Often, teachers, in order to earn a decent salary, work at 1.5-2 times the rate. Even for two specialists with the same education and specialty, the actual salary may differ significantly. Teachers have already adapted to new working conditions and a complex payroll system.

But information on average earnings does not reflect the real picture. In addition, the increase will directly affect salaries and bonuses tied to tariffs. Therefore, actual wages after recalculation may increase by different amounts.

The size of average salaries will approach the values ​​​​indicated in the table.

Table 2. Average salaries of teachers in 2019

	Around the country	At the federal level	At the regional level	In municipal institutions
Preschool educators and teachers	34 681	44 279	47 399	33 789
Secondary school teachers	44 760	78 429	64 094	40 149
Additional education teachers	42 079	51 140	53 615	40 134
Masters and teachers of vocational education	43 615	43 545	43 641	27 783
Teachers working with orphans	40 493	–	39 327	48 764
University teachers	92 957	92 588	107 299	54 789

The results of a study conducted by the interregional trade union “University Solidarity” show how the May presidential decrees to increase the salaries of their employees are actually implemented in many universities. According to the 2012 presidential decree, starting from 2018, teachers’ salaries should be twice the average income in the region. The union conducted a survey of teachers who pointed out a significant lag in salary increases and the tricks that the administrations of many universities use to formally implement the decree. The Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation says that it regularly monitors the implementation of the May decrees.

The average salary of university teachers in 2017 “falls far short of the bar set by the May decrees, amounting to approximately 113% of the national average.” This is stated in a statement by the interregional trade union “University Solidarity” (available from Kommersant) based on the results of its own study of the real level of income of teachers, conducted in February-March 2018. In 2012, President Vladimir Putin demanded that by 2018 the salary level of university teachers should be increased to 200% of the regional average.

According to the results obtained, after deducting income tax in September-November 2017, teachers in the country received an average of 32.9 thousand rubles. “According to Rosstat, the average monthly salary in the national economy in 2017 was 39.1 thousand rubles,” the trade union points out. “The salary picture looks somewhat better in December 2017, when many teachers received various additional payments.” As a result, the December salary, according to University Solidarity, amounted to 57.6 thousand rubles. The authors of the study note that not all respondents received additional payments at the end of the year, “but the increased December average salary is far from reaching the bar set by the May decrees, amounting to approximately 113%, which is 87% less than the minimum established by the presidential decree.”

Study participants answered questions about their salary levels in an online survey, confirming their answers with photographs and scans of payslips for the last few months. The information came from 29 regions (including Moscow, St. Petersburg, Ivanovo, Smolensk, Crimea, Chelyabinsk, Buryatia, Tomsk), representing all federal districts. The majority of the study participants are associate professors (54.4%), the second largest group is senior teachers (16.5%), the trade union notes, “the predominance of associate professors and senior teachers in the sample makes it possible to draw conclusions that are close to representative, since the workers these positions actually receive salaries close to the average for the university’s teaching staff.”

“The study confirms that only a few leading universities have actually implemented the decrees, the overwhelming majority are just pretending,” says Andronik Arutyunov, co-chairman of the University Solidarity trade union. The administration of higher educational institutions often resorts to various kinds of “tricks to fulfill the formal requirements of the decree,” notes Mr. Arutyunov. “For example, a teacher is transferred from full-time to part-time or the vice-rector’s higher salary is considered as a regular teaching salary,” he says. According to him, almost all study participants indicate a significant increase in workload. “As a result, we are seeing an outflow of the best personnel from higher education: they either go to leading universities or completely leave the profession,” says Andronik Arutyunov.

The Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation told Kommersant that they regularly monitor the implementation of May decrees, “in general, in the Russian Federation, the average monthly salary of teaching staff implementing higher education programs has increased from 55 thousand rubles. (for January-December 2016) up to 63.7 thousand rubles. (for January-December 2017) and at the end of 2017 amounted to 182% of the average monthly salary in the Russian Federation.”

At the same time, at the beginning of 2018, teachers at several universities told trade unionists that they received unusually high salaries. In particular, this was stated by teachers of Lomonosov Moscow State University. “In the last two months, increased salaries have been paid in many universities,” confirms Andronik Arutyunov. According to a message on the website of the Faculty of Law of Moscow State University, additional payments to employees in the amount of one and a half official salaries were paid according to the order of the rector Viktor Sadovnichy dated February 20, 2018 “for special results in the field of educational and research activities,” as well as in order to implement the decree of the President of the Russian Federation dated May 7, 2012.