Azerbaijan ups salaries of over 0.6 million state employees

Salary increases will cover 667,900 employees of public organizations according to the latest decrees of Azerbaijani President of Ilham Aliyev, the Finance Ministry reported.

"Additional funds worth 12.9 million manat will be sent to pay a 10-percent wage increase in 2011. An additional 154.7 million manat will be allocated from the state budget to fund salary increases in 2012," the ministry said.

President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev signed a number of orders to increase the wages of workers in social security institutions, agriculture, land reclamation and water management, environment, fishery and hydrometeorology, academic and research institutions (excluding subordinated to the Azerbaijani National Academy of Sciences), healthcare and educational institutions (except universities), institutions of culture, youth and sports in December. Monthly official (tariff) salaries of these institutions financed from the state budget increased by 10 percent under the decree, from Dec.1, 2011.


/Trend/