New minimum wage in the Moscow region from April 1, 2021

Table of changes in the minimum wage value in the region

Minimum wage is the minimum wage in the Russian Federation.
It is established by the Government in order to regulate issues of wages and determine the amount of social benefits for pregnancy and childbirth, illness and other cases of state insurance. No employer has the right to pay employees less than the minimum wage. The minimum wage is closely linked to the subsistence level (LS). The PM is approved quarterly and is an expression of the cost of living, a set of prices for the most important elements of human life for a month. Therefore, you must definitely receive as much money as a month of life costs without excess.

Prices for goods and services vary from region to region. Therefore, both the PM and the minimum wage should be different. But the minimum wage is a federal figure. At the regional level, the minimum wage is approved separately, broken down by industry. The discussion takes place at a meeting of the Commission, which works in accordance with the state social partnership program. Decisions are made only by unanimous three “yes”.

It should also be separately noted that the value of the minimum wage in Moscow is individual and in no way relates to the minimum wage in the region.

In the Moscow region, the Commission's activities are based on the regional Law of December 3, 1999 N 82/99-OZ. According to it, its members are 45 people, no more than 15 from each side. The votes of the parties are equal, so no decision can be made if one of the parties is against it.

The agreement on the new minimum wage in accordance with the Charter of the Moscow Region is published within 7 days after signing in the newspaper “Daily News. Moscow region." The agreement is mandatory for all regional employers.

To establish your own level of minimum wage in a subject, an appropriate regional agreement must be in force. Most regions of the country did not take the opportunity to set their own indicator. But, for example, in Moscow, the Moscow region and some other entities there is a regional agreement.

It uses the cost of living in the region as a “reference point”. After drawing up this document, employers can join in its action or write a reasoned refusal. 30 days are allocated for this from the date of official publication of the document. After this time, those employers who have not provided a waiver are automatically considered parties to the agreement.

Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed to equalize the minimum wage with the subsistence level from May 1, 2021. He stated this during a meeting with workers of the Tver Carriage Plant.

Previously, Putin signed law No. 421-FZ dated December 28, 2017 on increasing the minimum wage to the subsistence level from January 1, 2021.

From May 1, 2021, the federal minimum wage in Russia will be set at the level of the subsistence level of the working-age population in Russia as a whole for the second quarter of the previous year. This was announced by the Minister of Labor and Social Protection of Russia Maxim Topilin.

The cost of living for the working population in the 2nd quarter of 2021 is 11,163 rubles. (Resolution of the Government of the Russian Federation dated September 19, 2017 No. 1119). Accordingly, the minimum wage will increase by 1,674 rubles from May 1, 2021. From January 1, 2021, the minimum wage is 9,489 rubles. See the figure to see how the minimum wage has changed over the past five years.

The minimum wage from May 1, 2021 and previous years

In addition to the federal minimum wage, which is mandatory for everyone, many constituent entities have their own regional minimum wage (Article 133.1 of the Labor Code of the Russian Federation). This is necessary because the economic situation throughout Russia is not the same.

The minimum wage at the regional level is established by agreement of three parties: the government of the constituent entity of the Russian Federation, the association of trade unions and the association of employers (the union of industrialists and entrepreneurs). All employers in the region automatically become parties to such an agreement if they do not send a written reasoned refusal within 30 days from the date of its official publication in the regional media.

If an increased minimum wage is established in the region, you need to pay a salary no less than this value, and not the federal “minimum wage”. You can find out the specific minimum wage in the state labor inspectorate for the region or in our table.

In the table you will find the minimum wage from May 1, 2021 in Russia for 85 regions. For convenience, we divided the subjects by federal districts:

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Central Federal District: Moscow city, Belgorod region, Bryansk region, Vladimir region, Voronezh region, Ivanovo region, Kaluga region, Kostroma region, Kursk region, Lipetsk region, Moscow region, Oryol region, Ryazan region, Smolensk region, Tambov region, Tver region, Tula region, Yaroslavl region;

Southern Federal District: the city of Sevastopol, the Republic of Adygea, the Astrakhan region, the Volgograd region, the Republic of Kalmykia, the Krasnodar region, the Republic of Crimea, the Rostov region;

Northwestern Federal District: the city of St. Petersburg, Arkhangelsk region, Vologda region, Kaliningrad region, Republic of Karelia, Komi Republic, Leningrad region, Murmansk region, Nenets Autonomous District, Novgorod region, Pskov region;

Far Eastern Federal District: Amur Region, Jewish Autonomous Region, Kamchatka Territory, Magadan Region, Primorsky Territory, Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Sakhalin Region, Khabarovsk Territory, Chukotka Autonomous District;

Siberian Federal District: Republic of Altai, Altai Territory, Republic of Buryatia, Trans-Baikal Territory, Irkutsk Region, Kemerovo Region, Krasnoyarsk Region, Novosibirsk Region, Omsk Region, Tomsk Region, Republic of Tyva, Republic of Khakassia;

Ural Federal District: Kurgan Region, Sverdlovsk Region, Tyumen Region, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous District - Yugra, Chelyabinsk Region, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District;

Volga Federal District: Republic of Bashkortostan, Kirov Region, Republic of Mari El, Republic of Mordovia, Nizhny Novgorod Region, Orenburg Region, Penza Region, Perm Territory, Samara Region, Saratov Region, Republic of Tatarstan, Udmurt Republic, Ulyanovsk Region, Chuvash Republic;

North Caucasus Federal District: Republic of Dagestan, Republic of Ingushetia, Kabardino-Balkarian Republic, Karachay-Cherkess Republic, Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, Stavropol Territory, Chechen Republic.

April increase in the minimum wage

The minimum wage is the minimum wage that an organization or individual entrepreneur (employer) must accrue to employees for the month they have fully worked (Article 133 of the Labor Code of the Russian Federation).

From April 1, 2021, the minimum wage has been increased in the Moscow region. From this date it is 14,200 rubles. Before that it was 13,750 rubles. Thus, the increase was 450 rubles. (RUR 14,200 – RUR 13,750). The reason for the increase is that the Government of the Moscow Region and the Moscow Regional Association of Trade Union Organizations signed an agreement on the minimum wage in the Moscow region on March 1.

Amount 14,200 rub. for the commercial sector, it is a guarantee that any employee, even without any qualifications, has the right to expect to receive a salary in this amount. In this case, it is assumed that the employee has worked for a full month and fulfilled the production plan.

State employees of the Moscow region are guided by the federal minimum wage (from January 1, 2021 - 9,489 rubles).

The new minimum wage from April 1, 2021 is applied in the cities: Aprelevka, Balashikha, Bronnitsy, Vidnoye, Volokolamsk, Voskresensk, Golitsyno, Dzerzhinsky, Dmitrov, Dolgoprudny, Domodedovo, Dubna, Yegoryevsk, Zheleznodorozhny, Zhukovsky, Ivanteevka, Istra, Kashira, Klimovsk, Klin , Kolomna, Korolev, Kotelniki, Krasnoarmeysk, Krasnogorsk, Krasnozavodsk, Lobnya, Losino-Petrovsky, Lukhovitsy, Lytkarino, Lyubertsy, Mozhaisk, Mytishchi, Naro-Fominsk, Noginsk, Odintsovo, Lakes, Orekhovo-Zuevo, Pavlovsky Posad, Podolsk, Pushkino, Pushchino, Ramenskoye, Reutov, Sergiev Posad, Serpukhov, Solnechnogorsk, Stupino, Troitsk, Fryazino, Khimki, Chernogolovka, Chekhov, Shatura, Shcherbinka, Shchelkovo, Elektrogorsk, Elektrostal, Yakhroma and other settlements of the Moscow region.

Table of changes in the minimum wage value in the region

The minimum wage is a legally established amount of monetary remuneration, below which the earnings of a person who has fully fulfilled the duties of his position cannot be lower. For failure to comply with legal requirements, the employer faces administrative punishment under Article 5.27 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation.

Depending on the source of financing, when making payments to employees, companies and organizations are required to take into account one of the types of minimum wages:

• approved by federal law. Applies to employees of enterprises financed from the federal budget;
• regional - the minimum wage in Moscow and other regions is fixed in agreements concluded by local authorities, representatives of employers and trade unions. Mandatory for the non-budgetary sector of the economy.

The indicator used for calculation is:

• the amount of taxes, fines and fees;
• child care and maternity payments;
• amount of benefits for temporarily disabled people.

Living wage in Moscow - what you need to know?

Minimum wage in the Moscow region - laws and legal regulation

Russian legislation considers minimum wage issues quite widely. Thus, at the federal level, this aspect is deeply regulated in various regulations and is assumed to be a constitutional right. Moreover, according to the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the right to receive the minimum wage extends not only to Russian citizens, but also to all persons, without exception, officially employed in Russia, including foreigners, refugees and stateless persons. Therefore, before considering the minimum wage in the Moscow region directly, you should pay attention to federal documents that prevail over any local ones. These include:

1. Constitution of the Russian Federation. Articles 6 and 37 of the Basic Document of Russia consider as an unconditional guarantee the provision of wages to citizens and other workers in the Russian Federation at a level no less than the minimum wage established by the state.
2. Labor Code. Article 2 of this document establishes the obligation of employers to provide wages not lower than the minimum level as one of the main objectives of labor legislation. Article 45 involves regulating the principle of social partnership to determine, among other things, regional indicators. Article 46 directly indicates the possibility of regulating minimum wages in the region precisely through the mechanism of agreements. And Article 133 establishes specific mechanisms for the legal regulation of the minimum wage.
3. Federal Law No. 82 of June 19, 2000. Unlike the Labor Code of the Russian Federation and the Constitution, which disclose only general principles for ensuring that wages in the country correspond to at least the minimum wage, this law assumes a much broader consideration of this concept and establishes specific mechanisms according to which the minimum wage is determined for the country as a whole.

You can find out more about what the minimum wage is in a separate article. Next, the legal mechanisms for ensuring it in the Moscow region will be considered directly, taking into account all the nuances of regional legislation. Thus, minimum wage standards in the Moscow region are regulated primarily by the following legal documents:

• 
  Law of the Moscow Region No. 15/99-OZ dated March 31, 1999. This law considers the practical application of the institution of social partnership in the region. Including in matters of concluding various tripartite regional agreements between employers, local authorities and representatives of workers represented by trade union organizations. It is on the basis of these agreements that regional minimum wage standards are established.

• Agreement on the minimum wage No. 41 dated 03/01/2018 in the Moscow region. This tripartite agreement, adopted with the participation of the Regional Government, the regional association of trade unions and Moscow region employers' associations, established specific minimum wage indicators from April 1, 2021.

It must be remembered that Moscow and the Moscow region, according to the principles of the territorial and administrative division of the Russian Federation, are different entities. Accordingly, the regulatory documents in force in the Moscow region do not apply directly to Moscow and vice versa. You can find out about the minimum wage in Moscow in 2021 in a separate article.

What does it include?

The amount prescribed in regulations is the lower limit of remuneration. Moreover, after all deductions (income tax, mandatory contributions, alimony), the actually paid earnings may be lower than the established amount - the law requires compliance with the minimum wage of the accrued salary (before deduction of personal income tax).

What components are included in remuneration are explained in Article 129 of the Labor Code of the Russian Federation:

• salary;
• surcharges and allowances;
• awards.

In some regions, when calculating the minimum wage, only the employee’s salary is taken into account. The minimum wage in Moscow, like the basic federal one, includes additional payments.

According to Article 133 of the Labor Code of the Russian Federation, payment for work performed cannot be lower than the approved amount if the employee:

• worked for a full month;
• fulfilled relevant qualifications and position responsibilities.

Part-time workers and part-time workers receive payment in proportion to the time they work: for example, the minimum wage for a part-time employee is 50% of the minimum wage.

Minimum wage and living wage

Labor legislation prescribes, when approving the minimum wage, to rely on the subsistence minimum - the consumer basket converted into monetary equivalent (products, non-food goods and services necessary to maintain human life and health).

The cost of living is calculated separately:

• for children;
• for pensioners;
• for able-bodied citizens.

In this case, the age-related needs of the body and the socio-economic activity of each group are taken into account. The highest value is set for workers, and it is the guideline for determining the minimum wage.

The planned revision of the federal minimum wage is from January 1 of the next year. The legislation stipulates the conditions for making adjustments - an increase in the cost of living of an adult for April-June. The minimum wage will not be reduced.

On March 28, 2021, a group of communist deputies proposed raising the minimum wage to 25,000 rubles from January 1, 2021 (registration number of the bill is No. 427393-7). According to the authors of the initiative, the measures taken to increase the minimum wage (to the subsistence level for the second quarter of the previous year) are not enough to improve the quality of life of employed citizens.

Refusal of the new minimum wage for the Moscow region

Employers in the Moscow region (organizations and individual entrepreneurs) from April 1, 2018 must set a salary no less than the Moscow region minimum wage (RUB 14,200) only if they have joined the Moscow regional agreement. Those employers who, within 30 calendar days after the publication of the agreement, have not sent a written reasoned refusal to join to the labor authority of a constituent entity of the Russian Federation, will automatically join it. If such a refusal was sent, then the salary in the Moscow region from April 1, 2018 can be compared with the federal minimum wage (9489 rubles). If there was no refusal, then from April 1, 2021, rely on the minimum wage of the Moscow region - 14,200 rubles.

What will the minimum wage affect from May 1, 2021?

Companies that adhere to the federal minimum wage are required to pay employees a salary of at least 11,163 rubles from May 1, 2018. If you pay less, there will be a fine of up to 50,000 rubles (Article 5.27 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation).

Also, the new minimum wage from May 1, 2021 in Russia must be taken into account when calculating employee benefits. Pay sick leave and maternity benefits based on the minimum wage in four cases:

• the employee has no earnings in the pay period;
• average earnings are less than the minimum wage;
• the employee's insurance period is less than six months;
• the employee violated sick leave without a valid reason.

In addition, if employees go on vacation or go on a business trip after May 1, the average monthly salary must be no lower than the minimum wage - 11,163 rubles. (Clause 18 of the Regulations approved by Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation dated December 24, 2007 No. 922).