Europeans earn Belarusian monthly salary in 12 hours
15.06.2008 | Publications
In his spring address to
the Parliament, the President Aleksandr Lukashenko calculated that in three
years the average salary in
The Government, which
planned the average salary to reach 500 US dollars by 2010 adjusted the figure immediately.
However Lukashenko went further in his promises, recalls “KP in
“A salary, equivalent of
500 US Dollars is not satisfying any more, in the course of the following five
years we should reach 700 and perhaps, closer to 1000”, said the President
Lukashenko on 10 June while appointing the heads of local governments.
Government officials haven’t yet corrected their plans
“We are working on trying
to bring the average salary in the country to 700 US dollars a month before the
end of 2010. It is realistic. Regarding 1000 US dollars we haven’t received an
order yet. If it comes through we shall review our plan”, admitted one of the
government officials.
Today the average salary in
Experts of “Komsomolka”
mentioned before that there is nothing impossible about such rapid growth of
salaries, another issue however is how much we would have to pay for food,
clothes and utilities.
In the meantime
An average European is
making 14 times more per hour compared with a Belarusian.
The EU Commission
statistics provides that inhabitant of the European Union makes 20.35 Euro per
working hour. In
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03.01
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07.10
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22.09
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17.08
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12.08
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30.09
