Rosstat “clarified” the data – and the real salaries of Russians increased by 13%

In an hour, real incomes of Russians grew by 5%, salaries – by 13.3%, pensions – by 2.5%. This follows from Rosstat’s data after he “specified” them.

According to the department’s statistics, in the second quarter of 2023, the average salary of a Russian was almost 72.9 thousand rubles, the pension – 19.5 thousand.

On average, a Russian citizen had 47.8 thousand rubles of income, Rosstat calculated. Their structure, in addition to salaries and social security payments, includes income from entrepreneurial activity, from property and “other cash receipts”. The latter accounted for 11.5% of the total amount of money received by citizens.

Rosstat presented such figures after “refining” data for 2022 and the first quarter of 2023 due to “correction of banking statistics” and “according to the results of the calculation of the balance of income and expenditure of the population”. After the “refinement”, the level of well-being of Russians on paper has improved significantly.

At the same time, according to the “Levada-Center” poll on the results of the first half of 2023, the respondents on average estimated the income per family member at 24 thousand rubles. The majority said that their material situation did not change during the hour, and about a quarter – that it worsened.