The Pension Fund of Russia is the largest non-budgetary organization, considering the size of the resources mobilized.

Financial management of pension funds includes:

Targeted collection and accumulation of insurance premiums;

Control with the participation of the tax authorities of the fund;

Financial payments of pensions.

The Pension Fund of the Russian Federation also has a number of its own expenses and income, like other organizations. Revenue comes mainly from:

Citizens' insurance contributions;

Employer payments;

Voluntary contributions.

As for expenses, they are entirely aimed at paying care benefits, logistical and financial support for the organization’s activities, and paying state pensions.

Pension Fund employee salary increase program

They first started talking about increasing wages in 2013. A program was created that talked about increasing the salaries of the heads of the Pension Fund by 3 times. A decree was issued to increase employee salaries in 2014.

The first increase to the basic salary was accrued almost immediately. Do not forget that qualified employees of the Pension Fund received significant bonuses every month even without a raise, and the manager also received bonuses in the amount of 2.7% of cash incentives.

From 2015 to 2016 there was a significant economic crisis. Therefore, the increase in wages for fund employees was frozen and salaries stopped growing. Employers did everything to reduce costs, so they even fired employees. The authorities decided to reduce expenditures from the state treasury for the current year in the amount of 600 billion rubles.

The main reason for this is the imposed sanctions and the decline in oil prices on the world market. It was decided not to index wages for civil servants and the military in order to reduce spending from the state budget. Employees of the Pension Fund still hope for stabilization and increase in wages in the near future.

How have salaries changed in recent years?

The wages of public sector employees have been slowly but gradually increasing in recent years. If we compare with the 2000s, then in the period until 2015, salaries increased 15 times, from 2,223 rubles to 34,030 rubles. Although incomes increased rather slowly in 2014 due to low oil prices, at the beginning of 2016 the average monthly salary for employees of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation was 36,525 rubles. This amount is 7.8% higher than in 2015.

Real numbers and salary calculations

Since the beginning of the year, the average salary of pension fund employees has increased by 15%. In other words, the income of workers in this area will be significantly higher than the average throughout the country. But in real life, the salary does not exceed 27,000 rubles.

Today, the highest paid position in the entire Pension Fund is the head of the customer service department. His salary is 28,300 rubles. A salary of 25,000 is provided for such positions as deputy head of the department, specialist - expert of the economic department, lawyer, chief specialist - expert and head of the department.

There is a small difference between their salaries, which does not exceed 200 - 300 rubles. A leading specialist - an expert, an inspector and a programmer - receives up to 16,000 rubles. A salary of 19,000 rubles is provided for a senior specialist and an expert specialist.

A specialist and a leading specialist receive the minimum wage. At this time it is only 14,000 rubles. But the system does not intend to stop at such income. The Pension Fund of the Russian Federation has immediate plans to increase benefits for its employees.

The amount of allocated funds should be about 83 billion rubles. To calculate the average income of an employee in this field of activity, you need to add the amount of income for the previous and previous years, then divide the total by 731 days (calendar days for both years).

When calculating, days that are not included in the calendar are excluded. We are talking about:

Parental leave;

Sick leave;

Exemption from work according to the legislation of the Russian Federation; maternity leave.

All wages are subject to taxes. This is a contribution to extra-budgetary funds, personal income tax and payment of contributions for injuries. For individuals, the tax payment amount ranges from 13 to 30%.

As for contributions, pension contributions amount to 22%, health insurance - 5.1%, social insurance - 2.9%, injuries - from 0.2 to 8.5%.

What should Pension Fund employees expect in 2018?

In 2018, the Russian Pension Fund will undergo significant reductions. The number of employees will be reduced by approximately 12,000 people, which is about 10% of the total. It follows from this that the salary of one specialist will increase to 63,000 rubles, that is, 10,000 more than before.

Formally, all employees of the Pension Fund are not government employees. Therefore, it is quite possible that wage indexation may not be carried out at all. Although remuneration for its employees must be made from its own funds, still more than 40% of all expenses come from the federal budget.

The salaries of pension fund workers in 2019 will increase by 15% - this became obvious back in 2018, when the amount of the state budget was announced. It must be taken into account that a pledged amount of such a value implies a significant excess of the average wages in Russia by 2 times.

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

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

• the fact that some part of Russian pensioners do not have their pensions indexed;
• in the “freezing” of salaries and the temporary impossibility of increasing them;
• in staff reductions, and therefore layoffs.

In the process of the notorious optimization, budgetary funds are distributed unevenly: government 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 those dissatisfied with the decision made.

Table: wages in the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation by various 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 per month on average.

This information differs from that announced by representatives of financial departments involved in planning the state budget. It is necessary to understand the following questions:

• what is the salary of Pension Fund employees;
• how much does it actually cost the state to maintain Pension Fund specialists (in numbers);
• how costs are rising.

Increase in expenses for Pension Fund employees

The stated plans of the Pension Fund include increasing 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 expenses for the Pension Fund apparatus looks strange, especially against the background that the state is acutely short of funds for indexation of pensions.

1. If we assume that 12 thousand rubles is the average pension, then the salary increase 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 number 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 pension fund workers is impossible, but fairness to those in greater need would be more likely.

Trends in salary increases for PF employees look like this:

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

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

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

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

1. Formation of insurance premiums that the Pension Fund pays 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 amount 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, requested from the state budget by the department, disappears in an unknown direction, since the specific necessary expenses have not been presented. Perhaps it’s because of high bonuses or expensive business trips, which department heads do not disdain. An analysis by Life.ru journalists of travel statements of PF employees demonstrated that even middle-level management employees consider it normal to buy tickets costing 100-200 thousand rubles at the expense of the fund.
3. Some more expenses of the Pension Fund in numbers:

• outreach activities - 185 million rubles;
• construction purchases, acquisition and rental 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 pensioners in Russia, USA and Sweden

The budget deficit, and the resulting optimization, affected every second citizen of the Russian Federation - some were deprived of indexation of their pensions, some did not receive a salary increase, and some were even laid off and were fired. But the situation with the distribution of budget funds is far from always uniform - that’s why it is optimization, to take away from some and give to others, who, according to the logic, are “more in need” of government funding. Nevertheless, the principle of fairness in the matter of drawing up the state budget and distributing funds is observed only in exceptional cases, when otherwise would seem outright impudence. And even then not always.

Thus, one of the manifestations of such injustice was the recent news about increasing salaries for employees of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation. Analysis of the budgeted amount showed that the average salary of Pension Fund employees in 2017 should increase by an average of almost 15%, despite the fact that the average salary, judging by the volume of pledged funds, significantly exceeds the average salary in the country by almost 2 times. Although in fact, the Fund’s employees do not receive such funds - employee surveys claim that the level of remuneration does not exceed 27 thousand rubles on average. Careerist.ru figured out how much it costs the state to maintain Pension Fund employees.

Instead of 30 thousand pensioners

Despite the fact that in Russia there is an acute shortage of funds for indexing pensions - instead of pensioners in January, the Pension Fund plans to significantly increase the content for its employees, at least this follows from the figures included in the draft budget for next year being discussed today. The drafters included in it an increase in costs in 2017 for the maintenance of the Fund’s specialists to 83 billion rubles, although even this year the PFR apparatus cost the state much less - 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 an increase in salaries for department employees will cost the state 358 thousand pensions - for this money it is possible to support about 30 thousand pensioners. And considering that not everyone gets the average size, even more.

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

This money, of course, would not be able to help index pensions in full, but in conditions of total savings it would certainly not be 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 based on rough calculations) it turns out that the increase will be more significant. Thus, next year the PFR apparatus will be subject to massive layoffs - since the Federal Tax Service will control the payment of insurance payments by employers, the staff appears to be 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 numbers almost 122 thousand people, the reductions will affect about 10% of the staff.

However, last year Izvestia cited information from the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation, according to which administrative control over the payment of contributions was exercised by at least 20 thousand employees. So layoffs will not affect everyone who does this work. At the same time, the Pension Fund itself claims that when this function was transferred to them, the staff increased by only more than 10 thousand people, so the Fund still does not intend to fire any extra employees. And the layoffs themselves, obviously, will not be one-time – they will obviously be “stretched out” in the hope that the situation will change.

But even if a full staff is maintained, the cost of maintaining an ordinary employee next year will be about 56.8 thousand rubles! This is despite the fact that in 2016 they already spent almost 54 thousand rubles monthly. Where these funds went, given the average salary of specialists of 27 thousand rubles, remains a mystery. One can only assume colossal disproportions between the salaries of ordinary employees and management - we are already accustomed to this, but even in this case the difference seems indecently huge. It will seem even more so if the reductions take place at once and at the beginning of the year - in this case, the average monthly salary of one Pension Fund employee will increase by more than 15%, to 62.7 thousand rubles!

Not just salaries

However, there is still a partial explanation for this volume of expenses - from the funds allocated for the maintenance of employees, not only their wages are formed, but also insurance contributions, which the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation, 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 same Pension Fund 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 the costs of 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 for its employees.

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

Where another 30 billion rubles will go is an open question. Obviously, senior executives receive high bonuses, go on expensive business trips and spend the fund's funds on other ineffective needs. Back in October, Life.ru journalists analyzed the travel statements of Pension Fund employees, and it turned out that even middle-level managers do not hesitate to purchase air tickets costing 100-200 thousand rubles at the expense of the fund. This despite the fact that the most expensive of them are flights within Russia.

The volumes of outright “squandering” of Russian pensioners’ funds are truly impressive. For example, as reported by REGNUM news agency, in 2017 the Fund plans to spend a fabulous 185 million rubles on the PFR information and explanatory campaign alone. The results of the audit of the Pension Fund's estimates for capital construction, published by the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation, deserve special attention. So, over the past 2 years, the Fund has spent over 14 billion rubles on the construction, purchase and rental 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 money was spent on the purchase than was allocated for construction. So inefficient spending of funds by the Pension Fund is not new.

How expenses are rising

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

For example, in the crisis year of 2014, an average of 47.3 thousand rubles were 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 Pension Fund. This looks quite strange against the backdrop of the fact that Russia continues to operate, which, apparently, will be extended for another 3 years.

But, obviously, PFR employees were “lucky” in this matter - since the Fund has an extra-budgetary status, its employees are not formally officials, so their salaries are not limited by the imposed moratorium. Another question is that this same fact obliges the Foundation to be self-sufficient and support its employees at its own expense. However, the 3.5 trillion rubles it generates is not even enough to pay pensions, so 40% of all department expenses, which is 3.2 trillion rubles, are 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 they are entitled to by law.

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

But everything would be fine if the extra 4.3 billion rubles allocated actually went to increase the salaries of Pension Fund employees - this decision is supported by many. For example, Senator Valery Ryazansky in an interview with REGNUM said that the increase in their salaries is justified by the high workload, because despite the deprivation of their responsibility to control social contributions, they continue to administer a lot of other payments in addition to pensions. As reported by FBA Economy Today, the Union of Pensioners of Russia agrees with this, because the workload on employees is constantly growing.

But in fact, you shouldn’t expect any serious increase - the salaries of Pension Fund 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 increasing 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 elite.

Back in November 2013, the management of the pension fund issued a resolution indicating the amount of salaries directly for employees. The main initiator of this proposal was Anton Drozdov. He is also the chairman of the board of the organization. If you read the resolution, it states that the salary of all specialists must be increased by 5.5 percent.

What is a pension fund? How have salaries changed in recent years?

The pension fund should be called the largest of the funds outside the budget in terms of the amount of mobilized resources. And even of all the funds from which funds are allocated for social purposes, this fund is considered the largest. Financial management of pension funds may include the following parameters:

• Target collection and accumulation of insurance premiums.
• Financial payments of pensions.
• Control with the participation of the tax authorities of the fund and the like.

Like all other organizations, the pension fund has its own expenses and income. For example, income comes from insurance premiums from residents, as well as from employers. There are also voluntary contributions. And if we take into account the organization’s expenses, they are aimed at paying care benefits, paying state pensions and logistical and financial support for activities. Insurance payments are the main source of income.

Pension fund employee salary increase program

We must also pay attention to the fact that in the same 2013 a draft decree of the country’s president was made. It implied an increase in salaries for the heads of the Russian Pension Fund by as much as three times. These officials should have had their salaries increased fivefold back in 2014. However, no one announced these facts, since the real salaries of the heads of the Pension Fund are kept secret.

The decree also discussed monthly increases for PF workers. This was published in early 2014. but already in September of that year, employees began to receive an increase in their salary. It should also be recalled that competent and hardworking employees already received quarterly increases in their salaries. But the management team was also given a bonus in the amount of 2.7 percent of cash incentives.

The expected increase in wages for fund employees was frozen in 2015-2016. Salaries for Russian citizens have stopped growing. One could observe an increase in the conference on the labor market. By reducing staff, employees did everything possible to reduce their expenses.

If we proceed from such assignments, we can see a tendency for salaries to decrease or be delayed. The demand for labor also decreased by 4 times, and the number of unemployed immediately increased. And when people are interviewed for a job, there is huge competition.

What to expect in 2018?

The state has proposed reducing expenditures from its 2018 budget in the amount of 600 billion rubles. and the main reason was the decision to impose sanctions, as well as a decrease in oil prices on the world market. Freezing public sector wages has not yet been included in the plans of the country's leadership. Only the Ministry of Finance proposed not to index the salaries of military personnel, civil servants and other certain categories of Russian citizens. And all because such plans can lighten the budget for 2018. People nowadays still continue to hope that by mid-2018 the situation will become stable and the salary increase for pension fund employees will still take place.

Real numbers and salary calculations

Despite the fact that the country does not have enough budget for indexing pensions, the Pension Fund is ready to increase payments to its employees. The document provided for an increase in expenses for payments to its specialists back in 2017 - 83 billion rubles were allocated for the maintenance of personnel. Currently, less is allocated for such purposes, namely 78.7 billion rubles. and to allocate an additional 4.3 billion rubles to increase pensions. If we take into account that the average pension in the country was just under 12 thousand rubles, then more than 358 thousand average pensions will be allocated to increase the income of Pension Fund employees - or the annual maintenance of about 30 thousand pensioners.

In 2017, full indexation of pensions was also not carried out. Since February, they have been indexed by only 4 percent, while consumer price growth for 2016 was 12.9 percent. But the salaries of pension fund workers will increase by at least 5.5 percent.

Also, a reduction in the staff of the Pension Fund was planned for 2018, because next year the pension fund’s function of administering insurance contributions will be transferred to the tax authorities. As the PFR press center said, next year they expect a staff reduction of approximately 11.8 thousand people. If we take into account that today the organization employs 121.7 thousand specialists, then their number will decrease by 10 percent.

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