Presidential executive order No 597 of 12 May 2012 envisaged ‘the approximation, in 2012, of the average education worker salary level in general education establishments to the average salary level in a given region'. Since then, this goal has never been taken off the government agenda

In 2013, the principle focus in the Russian education system was placed upon raising teaching personnel wages, because these wages are linked to wages of the nursery-school teacher and teaching personnel of the extended education system. During the same year, the Center for Continuing Education...

Since 2012, the average salary of school teachers has been increasing. In accordance with Presidential Executive Order No. 597 of 7 May 2012, by the end of that year it was to be raised so as to match the average wage level in each given region. However, 5 years later this still has not actually...

Average wages of higher-education teaching personnel (HETP) in 2015 must account for 130% of the average wages in a given region. The Russian average HETP wages in January-September 2015 accounted for 140.2% of the average wages in economy, showing high differentiation by constituent territory...