How much do they earn in the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation? How I worked in a pension fund Increasing salaries for state employees of the PFR in a year.

Back in 2013, in November, the management of the pension fund created a resolution that it was necessary to increase wages, moreover, directly for the employees themselves. And the main initiator of the proposal was Anton Drozdov, who is also the chairman of the board of the pension fund. And if you believe the decision, then the salary of all specialists, without exception, will increase by 5.5%.

In the same 2013, a project was made by decree of the President of Russia. It talked about increasing the salary of the head of the country's Pension Fund three times. In 2014, such officials should have received a five-fold increase in wages. But no one publicly disclosed these facts, because the real salaries of the heads of the Pension Fund are kept secret.

At the beginning of 2014, a decree was issued, which already indicated an increase every month for PF employees. And already in the same year, workers began to receive an increase in their salary. It is only worth noting the fact that literate and hardworking workers already received an increase in salary quarterly. But for the management of the Fund, a bonus was also created in the amount of 2.7 percent of monetary incentives.

As we saw earlier, wage increases for PF workers were suspended for 2015-2016. the salaries of Russian citizens also stopped growing. The labor market saw an increase in the conference. Employers by reducing the workforce are doing everything possible in order to reduce the amount of their costs. And if we take into account these facts, then there is a tendency to reduce and delay wages. Decreased today and the demand for labor, and 4 times. The number of unemployed is growing with every harvest. And when there is an interview, we see a huge competition.

In this way, the government wants to reduce the amount of expenditures from the state budget for 2017 in the amount of 600 billion rubles. And for the decision, the main reason was the imposition of sanctions, as well as lowering the level of oil prices on the world market. And, although the situation has long stabilized, the government is in no hurry to put everything in its place. At the moment, among the plans of the country's leadership, one can see the freezing of wages for state employees. Only now the Ministry of Finance proposed not to index the salaries of the military, civil servants, as well as certain categories of Russian citizens. And all because thanks to this, the country's budget will become easier by 2017.

If we take into account the budgets of 2015 and 2016, as well as the newly-baked budget of 2017, the spending on the Ministry of Social Policy has doubled. They also increased from 91.3 billion hryvnia to 180.5 billion. Only here it must be said that there will be a significant increase in social standards. After all, all the added funds will go to cover the deficit of the Pension Fund. Its expenses more than doubled in 2016, from UAH 80 billion to UAH 172 billion. The PF deficit will double due to a reduction in the single social contribution rate. And it is from the budget that they will take the shortage of funds.

We also take into account that many expenditure items were cut, including social protection Chernobyl victims, assistance to the temporarily displaced and so on. A number of social benefits: most of the subsidies and pensions that are not issued according to age were transferred to local budgets with the proviso that they will pay only if there is money. So no one gives guarantees.

The new budget also included a number of restrictions for pensioners. For example, the tax on large pensions above 4.5 thousand hryvnia will increase from 15 to 18 percent. Here we will add a reduction coefficient - 85% of the level of pensions for payments to working pensioners. The size maximum pension was also cut down. Now it is only 10.7 thousand hryvnia.

What is the Russian pension system in general?

For recent years, namely from 2002 to the present time, the management management was able to implement the accumulation system, which replaced the distribution system. For example, through a personal savings account, for each person who works, there are funds provided by points at the moment.

Only now for the socially protected part of the population there is a different approach to providing. Contributions to the own account of the labor unit are created precisely from each salary in the established coefficient of six percent. But the country takes care of other citizens at the expense of the general budget: those with disabilities or other reasons for receiving assistance.

Since there are many citizens, but there are not enough funds in the treasury, we have to somehow cut pensions, salaries, the budget for students, and so on. There is a division of money between the state, and suffer, as always, people. So in the next three years, you should not expect a sharp increase in wages.

Video: increase (indexation) of salaries for employees of the pension fund (PFR) in 2017

Back in November 2013, the management of the pension fund issued a decision on the one that speaks of indicating the amount of wages directly for employees. Anton Drozdov was the main initiator of such a proposal. He is also the Chairman of the Board of the organization. If you look at the resolution, you can see that the salaries of all specialists should be increased by 5.5 percent.

What is a pension fund

The Pension Fund is the largest of the funds outside the budget in terms of the amount of resources mobilized. Even of all the funds from which money is channeled for social purposes, this fund is the largest. Financial management of pension funds may include the following parameters:

• financial payments of pensions;
• targeted collection and accumulation of insurance premiums;
• control with the participation of the tax authorities of the fund and so on.

Like all other organizations, the pension fund has its own income and expenses. For example, income comes from the insurance premiums of citizens, employers and other citizens. There are also voluntary contributions. And if he talks about the expenses of the organization, then they are aimed at paying care benefits, paying state pensions and logistical and financial support for the activities of the organization. But the main source of income generation are insurance payments.

How is the increase?

It is worth paying attention to the fact that in the same 2013, a draft decree of the President of Russia was created, which implied an increase in the salary of the leaders of the country's Pension Fund by as much as three times. Such officials should have received a fivefold increase in wages in 2014. Only now, no one has announced these facts, since the real salaries of the heads of the Pension Fund are a secret.

The decree, which referred to the monthly increase for PF employees, was issued at the beginning of 2014. Employees already in September of this year began to receive an increase in their salary. It should also be said that literate and hardworking workers already had quarterly increases to their salaries. And as for the management of the fund, they also received a bonus of 2.7 percent of cash incentives.

In 2015-2016, the expected salary increase for the fund's employees was frozen. Salaries for citizens of Russia have ceased to grow. One could even see the rise of the conference in the labor market. Employers, by reducing the working staff, did everything possible in order to reduce the amount of their costs.

And, if we proceed from such tasks, then we can see a tendency to reduce or delay wages. The demand for labor has also quadrupled, and the number of unemployed has also increased. And there is a lot of competition during job interviews.

What will happen in 2017

Therefore, the authorities proposed to reduce the amount of expenditures from the state budget for 2017 in the amount of 600 billion rubles. And the main reason was the decision to impose sanctions, as well as lowering the level of oil prices on the world market. The plans of the Russian leadership so far do not include freezing the salaries of state employees.

However, the Ministry of Finance proposed not to create indexation of salaries for the military, civil servants and other certain categories of Russian citizens. This is because these plans will help lighten the budget for 2017. To date, people still continue to hope that by the middle of 2017 the situation will become stable and the increase in salaries of the soldiers of the Pension Fund will still happen.

The salary of pension fund employees in 2019 will increase by 15% - this became obvious back in 2018, when the amount of the state budget was made public. It should be borne in mind that the pledged amount in such a value implies a significant excess of the average statistical wages in Russia by 2 times.

Almost every Russian is aware of the fact of the budget deficit, which is reported annually by press services from bureaucratic offices.

To reduce the deficit, budgetary funds are being optimized, which concerns every second citizen. Here's what optimization is all about:

• in the fact that some part of Russian pensioners do not index their pensions;
• in the “freezing” of salaries and the temporary impossibility of raising them;
• in the reduction of staff units, which means layoffs.

Budgetary funds in the process of the notorious optimization are distributed unevenly: public funding often passes by those who need it most. There is no need to talk about justice in resolving such issues: there will always be dissatisfied with the decision made.

Table: wages in the Pension Fund Russian Federation across regions in 2018-2019.

The salary of employees of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation, according to them, does not exceed 27 thousand rubles a month on average.

This information differs from that announced by representatives of financial departments involved in planning the state budget. The following issues need to be addressed:

• what is the salary of the PFR employees;
• how much does it actually cost the state to maintain Pension Fund specialists (in numbers);
• how costs rise.

Growth of expenses for PFR employees

The stated plans of the Pension Fund include an increase in the cost of maintaining their specialists. In numbers, it looks like this: from 78.7 billion rubles in 2018 to 83 billion in 2019. The increase in spending on the PF apparatus looks strange, especially against the background that the state is acutely short of finances for indexing pensions.

1. If we assume that 12 thousand rubles is an average pension, then the salary increase for employees of the pension department will cost 358 (!) thousand pensions.
2. The calculated amount could allow supporting more than 30,000 pensioners. And this number does not take into account the fact that many receive a pension much less than the average.
3. Full indexation of pensions by increasing the financing of PF workers is impossible, but justice towards those who are more in need would be more likely.

Trends in wage increases for PF employees look like this:

1. The average salary increase should be close to 5.5%.
2. The real increase in income is much higher, since the PF apparatus is threatened with numerous cuts: about 10% of employees will be laid off.
3. The cost of maintaining an ordinary employee of the Pension Fund should be about 57 thousand rubles (before the staff reduction). In 2016, the expense was slightly lower - 54 thousand rubles per month. Where did the difference go if ordinary specialists claim that their salary is 27 thousand rubles? A question without an answer.
4. In the event of a one-time staff reduction, the content of 1 PF specialist will reach almost 63 thousand rubles.

The average salary in the Pension Fund and a comparison of the number of staff of the Pension Fund of Russia with other countries

What else is included in the content of employees of the Pension Fund

Such large expenses imply not only the salary (in total, it is about 40 billion rubles) that employees receive, but also the following points:

1. Formation of insurance premiums that the Pension Fund pays for its subordinates to insurance funds. It follows from this that the state not only provides income to employees, but also their future pensions, which the Pension Fund itself will then pay to its employees retirement age. The amount of these insurance premiums is 30% of the salary, which is about 8 thousand rubles (based on an average salary of 27 thousand rubles). Thus, the formation of pensions for Pension Fund employees additionally takes 11.5 billion rubles from the state.
2. The remaining 30 billion, requested from the state budget by the department, disappear in an unknown direction, since specific necessary expenses have not been presented. Perhaps the point is high bonuses or expensive business trips, which the heads of the department do not disdain. An analysis by Life.ru journalists of the travel records of PF employees showed that even middle-level managers consider it normal to buy tickets worth 100-200 thousand rubles at the expense of the fund.
3. Some more expenses of the Pension Fund in numbers:

• information and explanatory activities - 185 million rubles;
• construction purchases, acquisition and rental of real estate - more than 14 billion rubles, in many cases (50%) the amounts were greatly exaggerated.

Number of Pension Fund employees per 1 million pensioners in Russia, USA and Sweden

The salary of pension fund employees in 2018 will increase by 15% - this became obvious back in 2017, when the amount of the state budget was made public. It should be borne in mind that the pledged amount in such a value implies a significant excess of the average statistical wages in Russia by 2 times.

Almost every Russian is aware of the fact of the budget deficit, which is reported annually by press services from bureaucratic offices.

To reduce the deficit, budgetary funds are being optimized, which concerns every second citizen. Here's what optimization is all about:

• in the fact that some part of Russian pensioners do not index their pensions;
• in the “freezing” of salaries and the temporary impossibility of raising them;
• in the reduction of staff units, which means layoffs.

Budgetary funds in the process of the notorious optimization are distributed unevenly: public funding often passes by those who need it most. There is no need to talk about justice in resolving such issues: there will always be dissatisfied with the decision made.

Average salary in Russia

The salary of employees of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation, according to them, does not exceed 27 thousand rubles a month on average.

This information differs from that announced by representatives of financial departments involved in planning the state budget. The following issues need to be addressed:

• what is the salary of the PFR employees;
• how much does it actually cost the state to maintain Pension Fund specialists (in numbers);
• how costs rise.

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Growth of expenses for PFR employees

The stated plans of the Pension Fund include a significant increase in the cost of maintaining their specialists. In numbers, it looks like this: from 78.7 billion rubles in 2016 to 83 billion in 2017. The increase in spending on the PF apparatus looks strange, especially against the background that the state is acutely short of finances for indexing pensions.

Journalists of well-known media calculated:

1. If we assume that 12 thousand rubles is an average pension, then the increase in wages for employees of the pension department will cost 358 (!) thousand pensions.
2. The calculated amount could allow supporting more than 30,000 pensioners. And this number does not take into account the fact that many receive a pension much less than the average.
3. Full indexation of pensions by increasing the financing of PF workers is impossible, but justice towards those who are more in need would be more likely.

Trends in wage increases for PF employees look like this:

1. The average salary increase should be close to 5.5%.
2. The real increase in income is much higher, since the PF apparatus is threatened with numerous cuts: about 10% of employees will be laid off.
3. The cost of maintaining an ordinary employee of the Pension Fund should be about 57 thousand rubles (before the staff reduction). In 2016, the expense was slightly lower - 54 thousand rubles per month. Where did the difference go if ordinary specialists claim that their salary is 27 thousand rubles? A question without an answer.
4. In the event of a one-time staff reduction, the content of 1 PF specialist will reach almost 63 thousand rubles.

The average salary in the Pension Fund and a comparison of the number of staff of the Pension Fund of Russia with other countries

What else is included in the content of employees of the Pension Fund

Such large expenses imply not only the salary (in total, it is about 40 billion rubles) that employees receive, but also the following points:

1. Formation of insurance premiums that the Pension Fund pays for its subordinates to insurance funds. It follows from this that the state not only provides income to employees, but also their future pensions, which the Pension Fund itself will later pay to its employees of retirement age. The amount of these insurance premiums is 30% of the salary, which is about 8 thousand rubles (based on an average salary of 27 thousand rubles). Thus, the formation of pensions for Pension Fund employees additionally takes 11.5 billion rubles from the state.
2. The remaining 30 billion, requested from the state budget by the department, disappear in an unknown direction, since specific necessary expenses have not been presented. Perhaps the point is high bonuses or expensive business trips, which the heads of the department do not disdain. Analysis by journalists L that even middle-level managers consider it normal to buy tickets worth a thousand. rubles at the expense of the fund.
3. Some more expenses of the Pension Fund in numbers:

• information and explanatory activities - 185 million rubles;
• construction purchases, acquisition and rental of real estate - more than 14 billion rubles, in many cases (50%) the amounts were greatly exaggerated.

Number of Pension Fund employees per 1 million pensioners in Russia, USA and Sweden

How are PF costs growing?

We can say that the amount of funds allocated for the maintenance of the Fund's employees is growing steadily every year:

• in 2014, when the country was shaking from the crisis, 47.3 thousand rubles were allocated on average for 1 specialist;
• in 2015, the content not only did not decrease, but increased by 10% - up to 52 thousand rubles;
• in 2016, the content continued to grow, albeit not by much (by 3.7%) - up to 54 thousand rubles;
• 2017 was a record year in the growth of employee costs - up to 63 thousand rubles.

It is important to note that Russia has not yet canceled and even extended the ban on raising the salaries of officials. How does this fit in with the above? The question is rhetorical.

A few more interesting facts about the Pension Fund: the Pension Fund has the status of an extra-budgetary institution, and therefore its employees are not formally officials, which means that the moratorium on salary increases has nothing to do with their salaries.

Pay attention to the video: the salary of PFR officials.

The agency must be self-sufficient and autonomous, as well as support its employees at its own expense.

1. The money that the Pension Fund generates on its own, which is about 3.5 trillion rubles, is not even enough to pay the necessary pensions.
2. Due to the fact that the Fund is not able to ensure its own self-sufficiency, 40% of all expenses of the pension department in the amount of 3.2 trillion are covered by the state. The mistake is in the inefficient use of the funds that he can generate on his own. And pensioners who are deprived of indexation are paying for these mistakes.
3. The wages of ordinary employees of the pension department are set, and, accordingly, increase at the level of all federal structures to which the ban on wage increases applies. Therefore, the salaries of employees in the Pension Fund will remain the same as in the previous year 2017, despite the fact that more than enough additional funds have been allocated. Here is such a paradox in Russian.

The Pension Fund, in the face of a shortage of funds in the budget, decided not to refuse to increase the salaries of its employees. 4.3 billion rubles will be allocated for these purposes.

The draft budget of the Pension Fund of Russia provides for an increase in expenses for payments to its specialists in 2017. 83 billion rubles have been allocated for the maintenance of personnel. This year, 78.7 billion rubles were allocated for the same purposes. In total, an additional 4.3 billion rubles will be allocated to increase the salaries of employees, which, according to the calculations of the Life portal, is equal to the annual maintenance of 30,000 pensioners.

Recall that the authorities decided once again not to index payments to pensioners under the pretext of a lack of funds in the budget. Indexation for pensioners was replaced lump sum payment 5 thousand rubles.

At the same time, the PFR reported that in 2017 it is planned to reduce the staff by almost 12 thousand people (10%). Thus, taking into account future layoffs, the content of one specialist will increase from the current 53,000 rubles (on average) to 63,000 rubles.

It is worth noting that salaries in the Pension Fund have been growing for several years. For example, in 2016, the maintenance of one specialist was on average 3.7% more than in 2015. In 2015, the content grew by 9.9%. At the same time, there is a moratorium on the indexation of their salaries to inflation for civil servants. The salaries of officials were already frozen in 2015 and 2016. The moratorium is planned to be extended for another three years.

Experts note that formally PFR employees are not civil servants, so they can bypass the ban on indexation. In this regard, the PFR must pay salaries to its employees from its own funds, but in reality, more than 40% of all expenses of the organization are covered by funds from the federal budget.