Real incomes of the country's population continued to decline. This is stated in the report of the Higher School of Economics "Population of Russia in 2017: incomes, expenses and social well-being".

According to experts, since October 2014 the incomes of the citizens of the country have decreased by 19.2%. In May 2017 g. This indicator has stopped. And yet does not move to either side.

"In fact, in May 2017 was the thirty-first month of reducing real incomes of Russians, and compared with October 2014," - quotes excerpts from the document "The tape. RU".

At the same time, as the economists of the institute have found out, it is surprising that all this is happening against the general background, albeit not a significant one, but an increase in salaries.

Following the results of the first five months of 2017. The increase was 2.9% against last year's level.

"The general fall in monetary incomes testifies with the increase in salaries that indicates that such sources of money receipts as income from property and entrepreneurial income are declining at a rapid pace," explains HSE experts.

As for the pension component, in general, since October 2014. Until April 2017. Real pensions decreased by 6.9%.