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

This is the highest ratio between the salaries of managers and other employees of state institutions proposed today. The proposal of the Ministry of Labor is due to the “special role government controlled finances for pensions, provision of state guarantees in the social insurance system and the compulsory medical insurance system," the statement said. explanatory note to the project. 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 has been no established maximum difference between the salaries of managers and employees of state funds, RBC was told in the press service of the Ministry of Labor. 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 in July of this year of amendments to Labor Code. As a rule, ministries propose to introduce an eightfold 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 published earlier on the portal of draft regulations. Such a difference, in particular, was proposed to be introduced by the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Industry and Trade. In 2008, the government of Russia has already established an eight-fold marginal ratio between the salaries of managers and employees of state institutions (and only for them) in 2008.

Pension Fund I agree 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, follows from the explanations of the interlocutor of RBC. The average salary under the PFR system in 2016 is about 32 thousand rubles. per month, said the representative of the fund. The monthly salary of the head of the PFR, according to the presidential decree issued in 2014, is 301.6 thousand rubles, and another 326 thousand rubles. a year he receives in the form of quarterly incentives, calculated RBC. The total income of the head of the FIU in 2015 amounted to about 3.8 million rubles, follows from the report presented on the website of the organization.

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

The head of the Accounts Chamber, Tatyana Golikova, proposed merging three social non-budgetary funds - the Pension Fund of Russia (PFR), social insurance (FSS) and compulsory medical insurance (FOMS). The merger of the funds has not yet been discussed in the government, but theoretically it could save more than a quarter of the current costs of maintaining them.

Tatyana Golikova: The United Compulsory Social Insurance Fund should not be in state, but in public ownership. A photo: Anton Novoderezhkin / TASS

This idea was expressed by the head of the Accounts Chamber as part of a report on reforming public administration spending. She presented it at the Gaidar Forum organized by the RANEPA, the Association of Innovative Regions of Russia and the Gaidar Institute.

According to Golikova, 162.8 thousand people work in the three funds, which is only slightly less than half of the number of employees 53 federal bodies authorities subordinate to the government. The cost of maintaining the funds is 143.8 billion rubles a year. "They are fully provided for by the insurance premiums that are collected in the budgets of these state off-budget funds as taxes on the wage fund," Golikova stressed.

According to the head of the Accounts Chamber, it is necessary to eliminate the need to create parallel information systems all three funds: the resources they spend on informatization are quite large. "According to the experience of most similar institutions, the unified compulsory social insurance fund should be a unique management structure that is not in state ownership, but in public ownership. Why in public ownership? Because part of the budget of this fund, namely insurance premiums, administers the Federal Tax Service and it remains such an administrator. We are talking about the distribution of those resources that come as a revenue part," Golikova said.

According to the Vice-Rector of the Academy of Labor and social relations Alexander Safonov, the possible merger of social funds will not be quick. "Taking into account the audit, the preparation of the bill, the unified information platform- this is a project of not one or two, but somewhere around five years," he believes. In his opinion, the costs of maintaining social funds after their possible merger could be reduced by about 20-40 billion rubles.

As Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets later told reporters, the proposal to merge the three social funds was not discussed by the government (the Accounts Chamber is not part of the Cabinet of Ministers and does not have the right to initiate legislation). "Proposals must be balanced, we must understand what result we expect," she stressed. The head of the Ministry of Labor Maxim Topilin also noted that he had not yet seen official proposals for the merger of social funds.

In her speech, Tatyana Golikova also touched upon other issues of the effectiveness of spending on the public administration system. Thus, she once again questioned the expediency of the existence of federal agencies as separate departments. At the suggestion of the Accounts Chamber, agencies with a network of territorial bodies subordinate to them can be included in ministries as structural units or even become independent ministries or committees. Agencies that do not have territorial bodies can be transformed into state institutions subordinate to ministries.

In addition, the Accounts Chamber believes that the system of remuneration of officials is actually unbalanced. According to Golikova, in recent years there has been a significant disproportion in the remuneration of civil servants. According to her, the salaries of officials of the same category can differ by two to three times. Also in 2016, the number of civil civil servants was reduced to the level of 2012, but this process affected only the lower level of management and led to an imbalance in the hierarchy of positions, the head of the Accounts Chamber noted.

“It seems to us that it is necessary to change the structure of the salary by increasing the share of guaranteed payments in its composition and establishing a clear relationship between incentive payments and indicators of the efficiency and effectiveness of civil servants,” Golikova said. In her opinion, this can increase the attractiveness of the civil civil service and encourage financially the most efficient workers. But such a mechanism will work only if the institution of attestation of civil servants is improved, the head of the Accounts Chamber specified.

The salary of pension fund employees in 2019 will increase by 15% - this became obvious back in 2018, when the amount of the state budget was made public. It should be borne in mind that the pledged amount in such a value implies a significant excess of the average statistical 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, optimization is carried out budget funds which concerns every second citizen. Here's what optimization is all about:

• in the fact that some part of Russian pensioners do not index their pensions;
• in the “freezing” of salaries and the temporary impossibility of raising them;
• in the reduction of staff units, which means layoffs.

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

Table: wages in the Pension Fund Russian Federation across regions in 2018-2019.

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

This information differs from that announced by representatives of financial departments involved in planning the state budget. The following issues need to be addressed:

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

Growth of expenses for PFR employees

The stated plans of the Pension Fund include an increase in the cost of maintaining their 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 PF apparatus looks strange, especially against the background that the state is acutely short of finances for indexing pensions.

1. If we assume that 12 thousand rubles is an 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 30,000 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 the financing of PF workers is impossible, but justice towards those who are more in need would be more likely.

Trends in wage 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 apparatus is threatened with numerous cuts: about 10% of employees will be laid off.
3. The cost of maintaining an ordinary employee of the Pension Fund should be about 57 thousand rubles (before the staff reduction). In 2016, the expense was slightly lower - 54 thousand rubles a month. Where did the difference go if ordinary specialists claim that their salary is 27 thousand rubles? A question without an answer.
4. In the event of a one-time staff reduction, the content of 1 PF specialist will reach almost 63 thousand rubles.

The 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 content of employees of the Pension Fund

Such heavy 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 retirement age. The amount of these insurance premiums is 30% of the salary, which is about 8 thousand rubles (based on an 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, disappear in an unknown direction, since specific necessary expenses have not been presented. Perhaps the point is high bonuses or expensive business trips, which the heads of the department do not disdain. An analysis by Life.ru journalists of the travel records of PF employees showed that even middle-level 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:

• information and explanatory 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

During a crisis, employees public sector the most difficult, because in order to save the budget, they are cut in the first place. Indeed, in some government organizations in the pre-crisis years, the staff was previously bloated, and now the government is getting rid of the excess personnel. We will figure out what news to expect about the Pension Fund in 2019, whether there will be cuts, and how the work of this state organization will change.

Fund reorganization

It became known at the end of 2014 that the reduction of PFR employees was coming. In 2015, according to the then adopted project, 10% of workers in the Pension Fund were fired. This was the very beginning of the process of reorganization of this state structure. The fact is that the PFR has had a deficit budget for many years, and in such a situation it is difficult and unjustified to maintain a large staff of employees. In this regard, a plan was created to reorganize the fund over the coming years.

No major layoffs are expected in 2019. Relatively few will be removed from the state a large number of posts. Ordinary employees of the district offices will be the last to be affected by the layoffs, the bulk of the staff will be removed from the departments. Many FIU clients are worried that there will be more queues, but in reality this is not the case. Specialists working with citizens are not going to be fired in the coming years.

The fund will start working for the most part from individuals, businessmen will report to the tax. The plans for the coming year include the disbandment of one of the largest departments and the reduction of more than sixteen thousand specialists. The division responsible for the administration of the payment of contributions to off-budget funds. From the beginning of next year, the tax inspectorate, and not the FIU, will work on this. Relevant legislative acts already signed.

What changes have been made to the current codes

At the beginning of July 2016, several federal laws:

• No. 243 - on amendments to the Tax Code regarding the administration of insurance premiums;
• No. 250 - on changing the provisions of legislative acts (parts one and two of the Tax Code);
• No. 346 - on amendments to Budget Code(Clause 46 and part two of Article 47 will be corrected).

The law came into force at the beginning of 2017, as the transfer of powers takes a lot of time. Previously, almost 16,000 people were involved in keeping records of insurance premiums. All of them will be laid off, but qualified employees will have the opportunity to get a new job:

• in the Pension Fund in another position;
• in tax office(in a similar department established).

A sharp increase in the number of unemployed in the country due to the new initiative is not expected. However, it will be possible to get a new place in most regions only after certification. Unqualified employees will not be accepted for similar workplace. The knowledge testing procedure is necessary in order to increase the effectiveness of the fund. According to recent inspections, some employees do not fulfill their duties in full.

Why it is necessary to cut employees

The government, making a reduction in the FIU, pursues several goals at once:

• reduces fund spending wages;
• strengthens the payment discipline of entrepreneurs;
• optimizes the work of the organization;
• makes reporting easier for entrepreneurs.

Among them, the primary goal is to change the order of reports for entrepreneurs and tighten control over the contribution of funds to extra-budgetary funds. It is known that every fifth owner of a society with limited liability does not pay dues even by court order. In this regard, the filling of the PFR cannot be called effective. The fact is that at present, contributions to off-budget funds are not assigned the status of tax and the responsibility for non-payment of them is less.

By liquidating the administration department and transferring its powers to the tax department, the government transfers the status of payments to another branch of legislative law. Responsibility for failure to fulfill their obligations under it will be more serious.

A positive aspect will also be the reduction in the cost of wages for fund specialists. Now only qualified employees will work, and the reduction in their number will not only reduce the burden on the budget, but will also allow salaries to be indexed in a timely manner. According to the results of two years (2016 and 2017), about 20% of the fund's employees will be laid off.

Where will businessmen submit reports?

One of the advantages of the updated Tax Code is that the burden on entrepreneurs in terms of the number of inspectors will be reduced. They will not need to withstand regular inspections by the FIU, but will only report to the tax authorities.

On the one hand, the solution of issues on contributions on the basis of the one-stop shop principle in the Federal Tax Service is a positive development. On the other hand, business representatives fear that the terms of inspections will henceforth be significantly increased. Previously, representatives of the FIU conducted desk audit within ten days, while the tax authorities worked with documents for a month. This significantly hampered the work of Russian companies.

The deputies respond to the fears of businessmen that the reduction of employees of the Pension Fund and the delegation of their duties to the tax service will be carried out as quietly as possible for business. There will be more specialists in the Federal Tax Service, so no increase in data processing time is expected. Additionally, over the next three years, new reporting forms (more simple) and data processing programs will be introduced.

Businessmen should be wary of the introduction of more severe measures for late payment of contributions. The Ministry of Justice has already prepared a package of amendments to the Criminal Code, which are developed similarly to the points on non-payment of taxes.

How did the FIU react to this news?

Representatives of the Ministry of Labor and the leadership of the Pension Fund oppose the initiative of the authorities. They see no reason to transfer authority to the tax service. The main arguments of the opponents of the initiative:

• All reports are subject to quick desk review;
• most payers submit documents in in electronic format, which is very convenient for both specialists and businessmen;
• high collection rates (this claim has been refuted by recent data);
• debugged system.

None of these arguments in the government was considered weighty. The ability to submit reports remotely exists in the Federal Tax Service. Contributions to the budget and funds are interconnected. If they are administered in one place, any errors and underpayments will be found faster.

A few years ago, the Federal Tax Service was already involved in pension contributions. Then the department could not cope with the load, and its efficiency was not great. Now it is planned to create a new department on the basis of the tax service, which will be responsible for insurance contributions. This should optimize the work on collections to all off-budget funds.