When will the wages of pension fund employees be increased. How much do they earn in the RF Pension Fund? The procedure and amount of contributions to the pension fund from salaries

The salary of employees of the pension fund in 2019 will grow by 15% - this became obvious back in 2018, when the state budget was announced. It should be borne in mind that the pledged amount in this amount implies a significant excess of the average wages in Russia by 2 times.

Almost every Russian knows the fact of the budget deficit, which is annually reported by the press services from the bureaucratic offices.

To reduce the deficit, budget funds are being optimized, which concerns every second citizen. Here's what the optimization is about:

• the fact that some part of Russian pensioners do not index pensions;
• in the "freezing" of wages and the temporary impossibility of raising it;
• in the reduction of staff, which means layoffs.

In the process of the notorious optimization, budget funds are distributed unevenly: public funding often passes by those who needed it most. There is no need to talk about fairness in resolving such issues: there will always be dissatisfied with the decision made.

Table: wages in the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation by different regions in 2018-2019.

The salary of employees of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation, according to their own words, does not exceed 27 thousand rubles a month on average.

This information is at variance with that announced by representatives of financial departments involved in planning the state budget. You need to understand the following issues:

• what is the salary of the PFR employees;
• how much does the maintenance of Pension Fund specialists actually cost the state (in numbers);
• how costs grow.

Increase in expenses for PFR employees

The announced plans of the Pension Fund include an increase in the costs of maintaining its specialists. In numbers, it looks like this: from 78.7 billion rubles in 2018 to 83 billion in 2019. The increase in spending on the Pension Fund office looks strange, especially against the background of the fact that the state is sorely lacking funds to index pensions.

1. If we assume that 12 thousand rubles is an average pension, then the increase in wages for employees of the pension department will cost 358 (!) Thousand pensions.
2. The calculated amount could allow supporting more than 30 thousand pensioners. And this amount does not take into account the fact that many receive a pension much less than the average.
3. Full indexation of pensions by increasing funding for PF employees is impossible, but fairness towards those more in need would be more likely.

Trends in salary increases for PF employees look like this:

1. The average salary increase should be close to 5.5%.
2. The real increase in income is much higher, since the PF staff is threatened with numerous reductions: about 10% of employees will be laid off.
3. The cost of maintaining an ordinary PF employee should amount to about 57 thousand rubles (before staff reductions). In 2016, the expense was slightly lower - 54 thousand rubles per month. Where did the difference go if ordinary specialists claim that their salary is 27 thousand rubles? Unanswered question.
4. In the event of a one-time reduction in staff, the content of 1 PF specialist will reach almost 63 thousand rubles.

Average salary in the Pension Fund and a comparison of the number of staff of the Pension Fund of Russia with other countries

What else is included in the maintenance of employees of the Pension Fund

Such large expenses imply not only the salary (in total, it is about 40 billion rubles), which employees receive, but also the following points:

1. Formation of insurance premiums, which the PF deducts for its subordinates to insurance funds. It follows from this that the state not only provides income to employees, but also their future pensions, which the Pension Fund itself will then pay to its employees of retirement age. The size of these insurance contributions is 30% of the salary, which is about 8 thousand rubles (based on the average salary of 27 thousand rubles). Thus, the formation of pensions for Pension Fund employees additionally takes 11.5 billion rubles from the state.
2. The remaining 30 billion demanded from the state budget by the department disappear in an unknown direction, since the specific necessary expenses have not been presented. Perhaps the point is in high bonuses or expensive business trips, which the heads of the department do not disdain. Analysis by Life.ru journalists of the travel lists of PF employees showed that even middle managers consider it normal to buy tickets worth 100-200 thousand rubles at the expense of the fund.
3. Some more expenses of the Pension Fund in numbers:

• outreach activities - RUB 185 million;
• construction purchases, acquisition and lease of real estate - more than 14 billion rubles, in many cases (50%) the amounts were greatly exaggerated.

Number of Pension Fund employees per 1 million retirees in Russia, USA and Sweden

The management staff of the Russian Pension Fund for 2017 declared income of 506 million rubles. This is 32 million more than in 2016.

Every month a courier brings Forbes, Esquire and RWAY. Real Estate Bulletin to the Russian Pension Fund. These magazines are included in the list of publications to which the Pension Fund has signed up for an annual subscription (by the way, this costs 4.3 million rubles, that is, about 300 average Russian pensions; there are several dozen different publications in total).

Forbes is a magazine about billionaires. Esquire is the magazine for "successful gentlemen". What is "RWAY. Bulletin on real estate", you can understand, for example, by the title of one of the latest texts in this magazine: "State of the elite housing market in St. Petersburg". And the employees of the FIU, as can be seen from their declarations, fit very well into the target audience of these publications.

The head of the PFR Anton Drozdov earned 3.9 million rubles in 2017, his wife - 4.9 million rubles. In 2016, their family income was slightly higher - by 4 million. The family has a seven-room apartment with an area of \u200b\u200b335 square meters, as well as 4 land plots, a country house, a Mercedes and a Lexus.

An interesting declaration from the deputy of Drozdov Nikolai Kozlov. In 2017, his family income (together with his wife) amounted to 26 million rubles. The family has 4 apartments, a land plot of 30 acres, a cottage in Russia and a summer residence in Cyprus.

As stated on the PFR website, Nikolai Kozlov took office in 2011, and before that was the chairman of the board of directors of the investment company Rikom-Trust. According to the SPARK-Interfax database, Kozlov is still a co-owner of this company.

Is this permitted by law? In this regard, there is a special government decree dedicated to the conflict of interests in the field of compulsory pension insurance. If a PFR employee has a stake in a company that participates in the pension savings investment system, then this is a pre-conflict situation that needs to be notified to the management.

Pavel Khripunov, Head of the Infrastructure Management Department of the PFR Automated Information System, earned 19 million rubles in 2017 and drives a Cadillac A1 CTS.

The head of the procurement department Alexei Stepin has a family income of only 2 million, but a civil servant drives a Porsche Cayenne.

A total of 186 members of the board, employees of the executive directorate and the audit commission declared income for 2017 in the amount of 506 million rubles. It turns out that the average income is 227 thousand rubles a month. This is 2.5 times more than the average salary in Moscow, and 6.5 times more than the average salary in Russia.

Income for 2016 (then there were 185 employees who should report) amounted to 474 million rubles.

Pensions in Russia, unlike salaries in the PFR, have always been, to put it mildly, small. It is clear that the Pension Fund should save in its expenses no less carefully than a pensioner in a store. But the FIU has more than once been convicted of unreasonable spending.

Previously, Life studied the flight registers of the FIU. It turned out that the management and even middle managers of the Pension Fund fly in business class and spend 100-200 thousand rubles for a flight, say, from Moscow to Kaliningrad, Simferopol, Sochi and even Geneva and Paris (they travel there to exchange experience with foreign colleagues).

In 2017, it was reported that the FAS became interested in business trips of the PFR employees - 27 million rubles were spent on this.

As Life said, one of the magazines subscribed to by the Pension Fund is called "Pension". The Pension Fund spends on it 500 thousand rubles a year, plus this magazine is purchased by regional branches. And the ex-partner of the Deputy Chairman of the PFR Board Sergey Afanasyev makes money on this. This publishing business has brought in half a billion rubles in revenue over the past 15 years.

The press service of the Pension Fund told Life that it would not be possible to quickly answer questions about the income of employees. But they explained why the PFR subscribes Forbes - "to monitor information on the topic of pension provision." A real estate magazine is needed for the work of the department of capital construction of the fund.

The heads of the Pension Fund and other state funds will be able to earn ten times more than their subordinates, the Ministry of Labor suggests. The authors attribute such a large income gap to the "special role" of these managers

The heads of state non-budgetary funds - the Pension Fund, as well as the social and compulsory health insurance funds (FSS and FFOMS) - will be able to receive salaries ten times higher than the average earnings of their subordinates, follows from the draft government decree published on August 30 on the portal of draft regulations. The salaries of deputy managers and chief accountants of these funds can be eight times higher than the average earnings of employees, as can be seen from the project.

This is the highest ratio between the salaries of executives and the rest of the employees of government agencies offered to date. The proposal of the Ministry of Labor is conditioned by "the special role of the state management of the finances of pension provision, provision of state guarantees in the social insurance system and the system of compulsory health insurance," the explanatory note to the project says. The adoption of the resolution will not mean an increase in the salaries of the heads of state funds, the authors of the project make a reservation, the document only “fixes the maximum allowable level” of their salaries.

Until now, there was no established maximum difference between the salaries of managers and employees of state funds, the press service of the Ministry of Labor told RBC. The ministries - the founders of these organizations - became obliged to determine it both for state funds and for state institutions and federal state unitary enterprises after the adoption of amendments to the Labor Code in July this year. As a rule, ministries propose to introduce an eight-fold marginal difference between the salaries of chief executives and employees of state institutions and enterprises entrusted to them, as can be seen from the projects that were previously published on the portal of draft regulations. This difference, in particular, was proposed by the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Industry and Trade. The eight-fold maximum ratio between the salaries of managers and employees of state institutions (and only for them) in 2008 was already established by the Russian government.

The Pension Fund agrees with the proposal of the Ministry of Labor to establish a tenfold difference between the salaries of its management and employees, a representative of the fund told RBC. In this case, the government decree will just fix the salary ratio that exists in the PFR today - about ten times, it follows from the explanations of the interlocutor of RBC. The average salary in the PFR system in 2016 is about 32 thousand rubles. a month, said the representative of the fund. According to the presidential decree issued in 2014, the monthly salary of the head of the Pension Fund of Russia is 301.6 thousand rubles, and another 326 thousand rubles. he receives a year in the form of quarterly incentives, RBC calculated. The total income of the head of the PFR in 2015 amounted to about 3.8 million rubles, follows from the report presented on the organization's website.

The salaries of the heads of the FSS and FFOMS are determined by the same presidential decree, their amounts are similar to the salary of the chairman of the PFR board.

Despite the lack of a budget for the indexation of pensions, the Pension Fund will increase the salaries of its employees, follows from the draft budget of the Pension Fund of Russia. The document provides for an increase in expenses for payments to its specialists in 2017 - 83 billion rubles were allocated for the maintenance of personnel. This year, less has been allocated for the same purposes - 78.7 billion rubles. In total, 4.3 billion rubles will be allocated to increase pensions. Taking into account that the average pension in Russia amounted to just over 12 thousand rubles this year, more than 358 thousand average pensions will be allocated to increase the income of PFR employees - or the annual maintenance of about 30 thousand pensioners.

The indexation of pensions in full was not carried out this year. FROM February. At the same time, the salaries of PFR employees will grow by at least 5.5%, and most likely by a large amount.

The fact is that next year it is planned to reduce the PFR staff, since from next year the function of the fund for administering insurance premiums will be transferred to the tax authorities.

As Life was told in the press service of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation, "next year the staff is expected to be cut by about 11.8 thousand people." Considering that now 121.7 thousand specialists work in the Pension Fund, their number will decrease by 10%.

Interesting: earlier The Accounts Chamber noted that a much larger number of specialists are involved in the administration of contributions to the PFR - about 20 thousand people. So it is obvious that the reduction will not affect all those involved in the administration of contributions.

Moreover, the process layoffs, obviously, will stretch for a year, but even with the current number of staff, on average, about 56.8 thousand rubles will be released for the maintenance of one specialist in 2017. This is 5.4% more than this year - 53.9 thousand rubles. And if we assume that the PFR will reduce all unnecessary employees at the beginning of the year, then the content of one remaining employee will grow by almost 17% to 62.7 thousand rubles.

However, there are other benefits that FIU employees like to use. For example, d even middle managerslinks of the Pension Fund of Russia allow themselves to spend 100-200 thousand rubles for air travel, say, from Moscow to Kaliningrad, Simferopol, Sochi and even Geneva and Paris.

Salaries in the PRF have been growing for several years. So, in 2016, an average of 3.7% more was allocated for the maintenance of one specialist than a year earlier. In 2015 - the content increased by 9.9%.

At the same time, a moratorium on the indexation of their salaries to the level of inflation is currently in effect for civil servants. The financial support of officials has already been frozen in 2015 and in 2016, now this moratorium, according to the draft federal budget, they want to extend for another three years. The Ministry of Finance even spoke in favor of the abolition of such a provision of the law on the indexation of officials' salaries. Moreover, the pay of federal officials was even cut by 10%, including in the presidential administration and in the government apparatus.

However, these restrictions do not formally apply to the FIU, experts say.

Employees of the PFR are not legally civil servants, since the PFR, although formally a state, but off-budget fund, says Natalya Milchakova, deputy director of Alpari's analytical department. - In theory, the FIU should pay salaries to its employees from its own funds, without resorting to government assistance.

In fact, more than 40% of all PFR expenses, which this year amount to 7.7 trillion rubles, are covered by funds from the federal budget, that is, the PFR lacks 3.2 trillion rubles for these purposes. At the same time, along with the obligation to pay pensions to the population, the composition of expenses also includes the planned costs of remuneration of the specialists of the Pension Fund.

It is with the aim of optimizing the expenses of the PFR this year, for the first time in recent years, the principle of indexing citizens' pensions was violated.

True, in the form of compensation, pensioners in January 2017 will additionally receive a one-time payment of 5 thousand rubles. But this payment is still much less than the required indexation. Considering that, according to Rosstat, the average pension in Russia was 12 thousand rubles, in 2016 pensioners will receive less than 12.8 thousand rubles less.

According to the Accounts Chamber, in January-August this year, the real size of the assigned pensions decreased by 3.7%.

The PFR reported that "the salaries of employees of the Pension Fund of Russia are set and increased according to standards at the level of salaries of employees of other federal departments (agencies)."

23.11.2016 05:21

One of the manifestations of this injustice was the recent news of a salary increase for employees of the Russian Pension Fund. An analysis of the amount budgeted showed that the average salary of PFR employees in 2017 should grow by an average of almost 15%, moreover, that the size of the average salary, judging by the amount of pledged funds, significantly exceeds the average salary in the country by almost 2 times. Although, in fact, the employees of the Fund do not receive such funds - surveys of employees claim that the level of wages does not exceed 27 thousand rubles on average. Careerist.ru figured out how much the state costs the maintenance of employees of the Pension Fund.

Instead of 30 thousand pensioners

Despite the fact that in Russia there is an acute shortage of funds for indexing pensions - instead of this, pensioners were promised to pay 5 thousand rubles in January, the PFR plans to significantly increase the content for its employees, at least this follows from the figures that are included in the discussed today draft budget for next year. In it, the compilers included an increase in costs in 2017 for maintaining the Fund's specialists to 83 billion rubles, although even this year the PFR apparatus cost the state much cheaper - 78.7 billion rubles. Thus, the maintenance of employees requires an increase of 4.3 billion rubles. Life.ru calculated that if the average pension in the Russian Federation is at the level of 12 thousand rubles, then the increase in salary for employees of the department will cost the state 358 thousand pensions - for this money, you can support about 30 thousand pensioners. And given that not everyone gets the average size, even more.

In Russia, there is an acute shortage of funds for indexing pensions, but the PFR plans to significantly increase the content for its employees

Of course, this money could not have helped to index pensions in full, but in the conditions of total savings, it would certainly not have been superfluous.

Taking into account the staff of the Pension Fund, they should increase the salaries of specialists by an average of 5.4%. But in reality (at least with a rough calculation) it turns out that the increase will be more significant. So, next year, the PFR apparatus will be subject to massive reductions - since the Federal Tax Service will control the payment of insurance payments by employers, the state seems bloated. Life.ru reports that the layoffs will affect about 12 thousand employees of the Fund. Despite the fact that today the number of specialists totals almost 122 thousand people, reductions will affect about 10% of the state.

However, even last year, Izvestia cited information from the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation, according to which at least 20 thousand employees exercised administrative control over the payment of contributions. So the layoffs will not affect everyone who is engaged in this work. At the same time, the FIU itself claims that when this function was transferred to them, the staff increased by only more than 10 thousand people, so the Fund is not going to dismiss the extra employees. And the layoffs themselves, obviously, will not be one-time - they are clearly "stretched" in the hope that the situation will change.

But even with the preservation of the full staff, the cost of maintaining an ordinary employee next year will amount to about 56.8 thousand rubles! This is despite the fact that in 2016 they already spent almost 54 thousand rubles a month. Where these funds went, taking into account the average salary of specialists of 27 thousand rubles, remains a mystery. One can only assume the colossal disparities between the salaries of ordinary employees and the management - we are already used to this, but even then the difference seems indecently huge. It will seem even more so if reductions are made at the same time and at the beginning of the year - in this case, the average monthly salary of one PFR employee will increase by more than 15%, to 62.7 thousand rubles!

Not just salaries

However, there is still a partial explanation for such a volume of expenses - from the funds allocated for the maintenance of employees, not only their salaries are formed, but also insurance premiums, which the FIU, as an employer, is obliged to pay to insurance funds. Thus, the state allocates funds not only to ensure income, but also to ensure future pensions, which this very PFR will pay to its employees who have received pensioner status. But this only partially justifies such figures - the amount of deductions is 30%, given the average salary of 27 thousand rubles, the average amount of deductions is about 8 thousand rubles. Thus, in addition to expenses on salaries, which, based on the average monthly indicator, amount to no more than 39 billion rubles, the fund spends an additional 11.5 billion rubles on the formation of pensions of its employees.

But this, again, justifies only 50 billion rubles of expenses.

Where about 30 billion rubles more goes is an open question. Obviously, senior executives receive high bonuses, travel on expensive business trips, and spend funds on other ineffective needs. Back in October, Life.ru journalists analyzed the travel records of PFR employees, and it turned out that even middle managers do not hesitate to purchase air tickets at the expense of the fund, worth 100-200 thousand rubles. Moreover, the most expensive of them are flights within Russia.

The amount of open “squandering” of funds of Russian pensioners is really impressive. For example, according to IA REGNUM, the Fund plans to spend a fabulous 185 million rubles on the PFR information and outreach company alone in 2017. Special attention should be paid to the results of the inspection of the Pension Fund's estimates for capital construction, promulgated by the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation. So, over the past 2 years the Fund has spent over 14 billion rubles on the construction, purchase and lease of real estate... The result of the audit showed that in 50% of cases the amounts spent were overestimated, and in 5 regions and in general, more funds were spent on the purchase than was budgeted for construction. So ineffective spending by the Pension Fund is nothing new.

How costs are rising

Interestingly, the amount of funds allocated for the maintenance of PFR employees is growing every year.

For example, in the crisis year of 2014, an average of 47.3 thousand rubles was spent on one specialist. Despite the crisis, in 2015 the content increased by almost 10% - to 52 thousand rubles, in 2016 by 3.7% - to almost 54 thousand rubles. In 2017, if we take into account the massive reduction, the increase in maintenance costs to 63 thousand rubles will be the largest in the entire history of the PFR. This looks rather strange against the background of a ban on raising the salaries of officials in Russia, which, apparently, will be extended for another 3 years.

But, obviously, the employees of the FIU were “lucky” in this matter - since the Fund has an off-budget status, its employees are not formally officials, therefore their salaries are not limited by the imposed moratorium. Another question is that the same fact obliges the Fund to be self-sufficient and to support its employees at its own expense. However, the 3.5 trillion rubles he generates is not enough even to pay pensions, so 40% of all expenses of the department, which is 3.2 trillion rubles, is borne by the state. Perhaps, if the Fund spent the money allocated to it more efficiently, government transfers would be much smaller, and pensioners would not have to be deprived of the indexation required by the law.

The amount of funds allocated for the maintenance of PFR employees is growing every year.

But all would be fine if the allocated extra 4.3 billion rubles were really spent on raising the salaries of PFR employees - this decision is supported by many. For example, Senator Valery Ryazansky in an interview with IA REGNUM said that the increase in their salaries is justified by the high burden, because despite the deprivation of their obligation to control social contributions, they continue to administer a lot of other payments in addition to pensions. With this, as reported by FBA "Economics Today", the Union of Pensioners of Russia also agree, because the workload on employees is constantly growing.

But in fact, one should not expect any serious increase - the salaries of PFR employees, as they say in the Fund itself, are determined and increased according to established standards, according to the level of salaries of specialists from other federal structures. The moratorium on raising the salaries of civil servants applies to them, and therefore, an increase in salaries, despite the allocation of additional funds, is not expected. Apparently, the money will again be spent on the needs of the top.

Based on materials from the portal careerist.ru