The Higher School of Economics decided to compare the level of real wages in Russia and foreign countries. The results are published in the report, which concerns the monitoring of "cross-country comparisons of wages". A comparison of salaries with the salaries of Russian post-Soviet space, as well as in Europe, China, Brazil and other countries and continents was conducted at purchasing power parity (PPS) in US Dollars. When the HSE report based on World Bank data.
Data from the School of Economics of the real wage in US dollars at PPP exchange rate at the end 2017 year for Russia as follows: 1550 u.e. And the nominal currency exchange rate, it is about 671 u.e.
On the first specified parameter bypasses Russia such countries as Azerbaijan (1364), Kazakhstan (1252,5), Bulgaria (1406), Brazil (927,6), Ukraine (1073). At the same time it gives the Czech Republic, Croatia, Poland and Belarus. So, It estimated the HSE level of nominal wages at PPP exchange rate in US dollars in Belarus exceeds 1,6 thousand. u.e.
In this way, researchers from the School of Economics say, that last year, the purchasing power of Russians in dollar terms was comparable to more than 1,5 thousand. dollars per month on average in the country. Quite possible, especially if measured by millions of Russians buying conventional food basket and one Russian citizen villas in Switzerland, another - a super-yacht or a stake in several large companies. Only in this case “medium” It amounts to more than a half thousand US dollars. per month it looks plausible. As is the case with “stuffed cabbage to average”, when for some cabbage, for others – meat.
And that, whether real wages are higher in Belarus, than in Russia, better to ask the ordinary Belarusians themselves.
Or all of the data in the report should not be viewed as high creativity of the HSE?
