Swindle by Lukashenka. Salaries drop 13% 164 23.02.2011, 17:17

The promised average salary of $500, which was the main trick of Lukashenka’s electoral campaign, has remained stable for just a month.

In January, the nominal payable average monthly salary fell by 186,200 rubles reaching only 1,409,600 Belarusian rubles, the National Statistics Committee of Belarus reports.

In January 2011, the real salary (calculated with account of the growth of consumer prices for goods and services) decreased by 12.9% if compared with that of December 2010. The payable average salary of workers and clerks was 1,424,874 rubles (1,619,942 rubles in December 2010).

The highest average monthly salary was recorded in Minsk – 1,843,400 rubles, the lowest one was recorded in the Brest region – 1,248,600 rubles. The average monthly salary in the Vitsebsk region was 1,284,000 rubles, in Homal region – 1,365,700 rubles, in the Hrodna region – 1,253,800 rubles, in the Minsk region – 1,358,800 rubles, the Mahilou region – 1,279,500 rubles.