REUTERS
Real wages in Ukraine grew by 6.8% in March 2017 compared to the previous month, according to the State Statistics Service of Ukraine.
At the same time, real wages grew by 19.3% in January-March 2017 year-over-year (y-o-y), the report said.
The average nominal salary of a full-time employee in Ukraine was UAH 6,752 in March 2017, which was 8.7% up from February 2017 and 37.2% higher y-o-y.
Read alsoUkraine sees 2.3% rise in real wagesThis value is 2.1 times higher than the minimum wage in Ukraine estimated at UAH 3,200. The data does not include information from the temporarily occupied territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, as well as the Anti-Terrorist Operation zone.
As UNIAN reported earlier, real wages in Ukraine in 2016 exceeded by 11.6% the indicator of 2015. The average nominal salary of a full-time employee in December 2016 increased by 19.8% against November, amounting to UAH 6,475.