Armenian civil servants demands median salary rise
28.10.2011,
03:21
Armenian civil servants placed an open letter to the president and prime minister of the country in Facebook demanding a basic salary rate of 11,000 drams from 2012 January. To date the letter has been supported by 1,027 civil servants.
YEREVAN, October 27. / ARKA /. Armenian civil servants placed an open letter to the president and prime minister of the country in Facebook demanding a basic salary rate of 11,000 drams from 2012 January. To date the letter has been supported by 1,027 civil servants.
It says under the Sustainable Development Strategy, approved by the government in 2008, the monthly salary of civil servants in 2011 was supposed to rise up to 184,000 drams and to 207,8000 drams in 2012. However, the minimum salary of civil servants is about 90,600 drams now and the maximum is 371,600 drams with maximum salary being 4 times higher than the minimum.
"According to the National Statistical Service of Armenia, the subsistence level in the first quarter of 2011 totalled 62,600 AMD, which is almost twice the official base rate of civil servants salary," says the letter.
During a parliament session today a lawmaker from the opposition Armenian Revolutionary Federation, Artsvik Minasian, asked social and labor minister Arthur Grigorian to comment on the letter. The minister said the current budget does not allow to raise salaries of civic servants. He said
the draft budget for 2012 earmarks an 18 billion drams worth benefits package for civic servants.
The median monthly nominal wage in Armenia in September this year amounted to 114,463 drams, having increased by 7.1% from a year earlier. Public sector salaries amounted to 93,028 drams, a 9.6% year-on-year rise and private sector median salary was 138,750 drams, which was 4.5% higher than in September last year. ($1 - 378.01 AMD). -0-
It says under the Sustainable Development Strategy, approved by the government in 2008, the monthly salary of civil servants in 2011 was supposed to rise up to 184,000 drams and to 207,8000 drams in 2012. However, the minimum salary of civil servants is about 90,600 drams now and the maximum is 371,600 drams with maximum salary being 4 times higher than the minimum.
"According to the National Statistical Service of Armenia, the subsistence level in the first quarter of 2011 totalled 62,600 AMD, which is almost twice the official base rate of civil servants salary," says the letter.
During a parliament session today a lawmaker from the opposition Armenian Revolutionary Federation, Artsvik Minasian, asked social and labor minister Arthur Grigorian to comment on the letter. The minister said the current budget does not allow to raise salaries of civic servants. He said
the draft budget for 2012 earmarks an 18 billion drams worth benefits package for civic servants.
The median monthly nominal wage in Armenia in September this year amounted to 114,463 drams, having increased by 7.1% from a year earlier. Public sector salaries amounted to 93,028 drams, a 9.6% year-on-year rise and private sector median salary was 138,750 drams, which was 4.5% higher than in September last year. ($1 - 378.01 AMD). -0-
