The international rating agency Fitch compared the levels of salaries in Russia and Europe, the "BBC". According to experts, in the last four years, Russians' incomes have fallen by 11 percent. "If you talk about the structure of the population by income, you can see positive changes: the share of the population that lives with incomes close to the subsistence level has decreased," said the director of the rating department of the consumer sector companies in the EMEA region (Europe, Middle East and Africa). Fitch Tatyana Bobrovskaya. But the calculation of welfare in dollars opens another picture. In 2013-2016, the share of Russians with incomes less than 220 dollars increased almost threefold: from 10 to 29 percent, calculated in Fitch. At the same time, the share of citizens with incomes of more than $ 900 fell by about the same amount - from 28 to 11 percent. According to the agency, in 2013-2016 the average salary of citizens taking into account purchasing power parity (PPP), which takes into account the difference in prices in Russia and abroad, decreased by 6.5 percent, to 1451 dollars. In this indicator, Russia lags behind not only Western countries but also Eastern Europe. In Lithuania, the average salary, taking into account the PPP, is 1.9 thousand dollars, Poland - more than 2.

1 thousand dollars, Spain - 3111 dollars, Germany - more than 3.8 thousands of dollars. According to the head of the Ministry of Economic Development Maxim Oreshkin, to restore the loss of real incomes of citizens that occurred in 2014-2015, it will take several years. In three years, the growth of real wages in Russia will be about 10 percent, he believes. According to Rosstat, the average monthly salary in Russia in September was 37,520 rubles.

Original article: Salaries of Russians compared with European.