The salary of the President of Russia: official data and estimates

2024 Author: Henry Conors | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-12 02:45

What is the salary of the President of Russia? A seemingly simple question. By the way, according to the weekly "Business Life", the salary of the President of Russia at the beginning of this year was 128.3 thousand rubles a month. Or, if you count in dollar terms, $4300. But this is without additional payments, contributions, taxes, etc.

At the same time, the Internet portal "My salary" claims that the salary of the President of Russia reaches nearly $179,233 a year. On average, this is $14,936 per month. Or - in the Russian equivalent - about 450,000 rubles. But this is 3 times more! It turns out an obvious inconsistency, which, I think, needs to be clarified.

Firstly, the indicative figure of $179,233 per year is the amount of income that Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to the official declaration, received in 2012. Approximately the same amount of income is “planned” for 2013. Although, in principle, everything can change. It is known, after all, that Putin earned 3.662 million rubles the year before last, while in 2010 - 5.042 million.2013, while it is impossible to accurately predict.

Secondly, speaking from a formal legal point of view, Vladimir Putin has no salary as such. There is a so-called cash content, the size of which is determined every year by the State Duma of the Russian Federation and prescribed as a separate line in the federal budget. If we assume that such a monetary allowance is the official salary of the President of Russia, then it comes out to 1,064,019 rubles a year. Or somewhere around $35400 for 12 months. At the same time, in the law on the state budget, the “functioning of the President of the Russian Federation” is prescribed in a separate line, which is estimated at 8,019,207 rubles. As a result, it turns out that more than 9 million rubles will be spent on the head of state in 2013.

Thirdly, neither financially nor logically, it is not entirely clear how the "monetary support" of the President differs from his "functioning". The fact is that there is no clear definition of both the first and second terms, just as there is no concept of “the salary of the President of Russia”. The question is not even whether contributions to the Pension Fund are paid or not. The problem is different - who calculates the salary-content and determines its size? For example, the size of the salary of the President of the United States is determined by a separate law, which is constitutional in nature and therefore cannot be changed either by the owner of the White House or by Congress. True, the President personally can make individual decisions about how to spend the funds paid from the federal budget. But this is his, as they say, a private matter,political position.

Or another example - the size of the monetary allowance of the President of France is also determined by a separate legislative act, but the level of the salary itself can be changed - during the crisis, Mr. Hollande significantly reduced his appetites.

However, judging by the official statements of the presidential administration, the salary of the President of Russia does not exceed 120 thousand dollars. USA per year. In any case, this follows from the vague statements of the press secretary of the head of state, Dmitry Peskov. Although this version seems the most plausible.