The minimum wage is increasing in the country. The State Duma announced the amount — 22,400 rubles — it will not be lower than the salary

CrimeaPRESS reports:

At a plenary session, the State Duma adopted a government bill in the second and third readings, according to which the minimum wage in the Russian Federation in 2025 will be 22,440 rubles.

The bill proposes to establish the minimum wage from January 1, 2025 in the amount of 22,440 rubles (an increase of 16.6%). The ratio with the median salary for the previous year will increase to 48%. The median salary for 2023, according to Rosstat, is 46,751 rubles— said in the explanatory note.

As State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin previously noted, the bill was prepared in order to implement the task set by the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin to increase the minimum wage at an accelerated pace and ensure the growth of the minimum wage by 2030 more than doubled compared to 2023, to a level not less than 35 thousand rubles. According to him, the adoption of the law will help increase wages for about 4.2 million workers.

In 2024, the minimum wage is set at 19,242 rubles per month. Thus, next year it will grow by 16.6%.

The minimum wage is the minimum wage for Russians before deduction of personal income tax. The employer does not have the right to pay less — for this he can be fined and even prosecuted. In addition to wages, the calculation of sick leave, maternity benefits and a number of other social benefits depends on the minimum wage.

The minimum wage cannot be lower than the subsistence level of the working population and is the same for the entire country. At the same time, constituent entities of the Russian Federation can set their own level of minimum wage in the region — the main thing is that it is not lower than the federal one.

Since 2000, the minimum wage in Russia has changed 26 times (including an increase from January 1, 2025).

What is known about the minimum wage and how the methodology for calculating it has changed — in infographics TASS.

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