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ARMENIAN CIVIL SERVANTS DEMANDS MEDIAN SALARY RISE
/ARKA/
OCTOBER 27, 2011
YEREVAN
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).
/ARKA/
OCTOBER 27, 2011
YEREVAN
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).