Minimum wage (minimum wage). All sizes of minimum wages Minimum wages established by federal law

The minimum wage is the minimum wage per month established by the Federal Law “On the Minimum Wage” dated June 19, 2000 N 82-FZ. Every year, the Federal Law “On Amendments to Article 1 of the Federal Law “On the Minimum Wage” appears and sets the minimum wage for the coming year.

  • The minimum wage for 2014 was 5,554 rubles (Federal Law No. 336-FZ dated December 2, 2013);
  • The minimum wage in 2015 was 5,965 rubles (Federal Law dated December 1, 2014 No. 408-FZ);
  • The minimum wage for 2016 was 6,204 rubles (Federal Law dated December 14, 2015 No. 376-FZ), and from July 1, 2016 it will increase to 7,500 rubles;
  • The minimum wage in 2017 remained equal to 7,500 rubles, but from July 1, 2017, the minimum wage increased to 7,800 rubles (Federal Law No. 460-FZ dated December 19, 2016);
  • The minimum wage at the beginning of 2018 was 9,489 rubles, and was later increased to 11,163 rubles (Federal Law No. 41-FZ dated 03/07/2018);
  • The minimum wage in 2019 was 11,280 rubles (Federal Law No. 481-FZ dated December 25, 2018).

Application of the minimum wage

The minimum wage applies to:

  • Regulation of wages. In accordance with the Labor Code of the Russian Federation, the salary of an employee of any organization for a fully worked month cannot be less than the minimum wage.
  • Determination of the minimum amount of benefits for temporary disability, pregnancy and childbirth.
  • government of a constituent entity of the Russian Federation;
  • union associations;
  • associations of employers.

Once the agreement is concluded, all employers are invited to join it: the proposal to join the agreement is officially published in the media. If the employer does not submit a reasoned written refusal within 30 calendar days from the date of official publication of the proposal, it is considered that the employer has acceded to the agreement and is obliged to apply it.

Regional minimum wage must be applied commercial organizations and entrepreneurs of the constituent entity of the Russian Federation, separate units, located in the subject, government agencies financed from the budgets of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, and municipal institutions. Federal government, budgetary and autonomous institutions are not required to apply the regional minimum wage.

In addition to the regional minimum wage, bonuses and coefficients established in the region are applied. For example, in the Altai Territory, the agreement for 2019-2021 established a minimum wage of 13,000 rubles. At the same time, the regional coefficient of 15% applies in the region. So employers Altai Territory do not have the right to set a salary below 14,950 rubles (13,000 × 1.15).

New minimum wage from January 1, 2019

From January 1, 2019, the minimum wage in the Russian Federation has changed. The new minimum wage increased to 11,280 rubles. This fact will affect the amount of the minimum benefit for a child under 1.5 years of age.

Minimum wage (minimum wage) - the most important indicator, on which employee payments depend, it directly affects the calculation of salaries and benefits to employees.

The article will help you learn how to take into account additional payments and allowances to an employee’s salary when checking whether his salary corresponds to an increase in the minimum wage.

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Minimum wages for 2019 by region: table

In addition to the federal minimum wage, regions set their own indicator. Make sure that the organization's salaries are not lower than the regional minimum wage. For violation labor inspectors organization and leader.

The regional minimum wage values ​​are given for the Northwestern, Southern, North Caucasus, Ural, Siberian, Far Eastern, and Central Federal Districts


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  • as of 05/01/2018

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Minimum wage Moscow 2019

The minimum wage in Moscow is revised quarterly and depends on the size. If it decreases, then the minimum size wages remains at the same level. If it increases, then from the first day of the month following the month of entry into force of the Moscow government’s decree establishing a living wage for the working population, the minimum wage also increases. This is stated in paragraphs 3.1.1 and 3.1.2 of the Moscow Government Decree dated December 15, 2015 No. 858-PP “On the draft Moscow tripartite agreement for 2016-2018 between the Moscow Government, Moscow trade union associations and Moscow employers’ associations.”

  • From January 1, 2011 minimum wage = 10 400 rubles
  • From July 1, 2011 minimum wage = 11 100 rubles
  • From January 1, 2012 - 11300 rubles,
  • from July 1, 2012 - 11700 rubles
  • from July 1, 2013 - 12,200 rubles.
  • from January 1, 2014 - 12,600 rubles.
    from July 1, 2014 - 12850 rub..
  • from June 1, 2014 - 14,000 rubles.
  • from January 1, 2015 - 14,500 rubles.
  • from April 1, 2015 - 15,000 rubles.
  • from June 1, 2015 - 16,500 rubles.
  • from November 1, 2015 - 17,300 rubles.
  • from October 1, 2016 - 17,561 rubles.
  • from July 1, 2017 - 17,642 rubles.
    According to the decree of the Moscow government dated June 13, 2017 No. 355-PP and the tripartite agreement between the Moscow government, the Moscow Association of Trade Unions and the Moscow Association of Employers dated December 15, 2015 No. 858-PP,
  • from October 1, 2017 - 18,742 rubles.
    By Decree of the Moscow Government of September 12, 2017

The minimum wage for 2019 has been increased again. Let's look at how this value changed over a number of years preceding 2019 and how it relates to living wage.

Federal minimum wage in 2019

Magnitude minimum size wages (minimum wage) at state level approved by the relevant federal law. The minimum wage is valid throughout Russia and cannot be less than the subsistence level of able-bodied citizens for the 2nd quarter of the previous year for the purpose of calculating wages (Article 1 of the Law “On Minimum Wages” dated June 19, 2000 No. 82-FZ). In other words, an employee who has actually worked the established labor agreement standard time, cannot receive a salary less than the established minimum wage. If an employer pays a salary less than the minimum wage, he faces a fine under clause 6 of Art. 5.27 Code of Administrative Offenses:

  • from 10,000 to 20,000 rub. on officials;
  • from 30,000 to 50,000 rub. for legal entities;
  • from 1,000 to 5,000 rubles. for individual entrepreneurs operating without forming a legal entity.

If previously neither the social nor financial departments of the Russian Federation, nor parliamentarians could establish compliance of the minimum wage with the subsistence level, then in March 2018 the President of the Russian Federation signed Law No. 41-FZ dated 03/07/2018, the norms of which determined that from 05/01/2018 the minimum wage will be equal to the subsistence level of the working-age population for the 2nd quarter of last year.

Results

The minimum wage for 2019 was increased to 11,280 rubles. Since May 2018, the minimum wage has become equal to the subsistence level of the working-age population for the 2nd quarter of 2017 and amounted to 11,163 rubles. Regions also have the right to set the minimum wage, but it cannot be lower than the federal figure.