The average monthly nominal wage of a full-time employee of enterprises, institutions and organizations of the Kharkiv region, accrued in January-September 2018, amounted to UAH 7425 (23.2% more than in the corresponding period of 2017; 2 times higher than the statutory minimum minimum wage ( 3723 UAH)).

Such information is provided by the head department of statistics in the Kharkiv region..

The average salary of one full-time employee in September 2018 was 8048 UAH, which is 2.2 times higher than the minimum wage. In September 2018, there was a high level of differentiation of wages by economic activity..

The highest paid work remained in the following areas: extractive industry (19806 UAH) information and telecommunications (15410 UAH) construction (12205 UAH) public administration and defense; compulsory social insurance (12157 UAH) financial and insurance activities (11101 UAH).

At the same time, the smallest salary, which does not exceed the average for the region, was observed in the following areas: health care and social assistance (5353 UAH), real estate operations (5711 UAH), administrative and support services ( 5844 UAH), temporary accommodation and catering services (5864 UAH), wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles (6038 UAH), art, sports, entertainment and recreation (6846 UAH), water supply; sewage, waste management (6962 UAH) education (7460 UAH) agriculture, forestry and fisheries (7570 UAH).