In Ukraine, there are plans to increase the salaries of prosecutors and judges. No salary increases are planned for teachers and doctors

Next year, the Ukrainian budget plans to allocate an additional 2.7 billion hryvnias (€60.8 million) for increasing prosecutors’ salaries and 1.3 billion hryvnias (€29.3 million) for raising judges’ salaries. However, there is no provision for salary increases for teachers or medical workers.

This was reported by Member of Parliament Nina Yuzhanina, who attended a working group of the budget committee in the Verkhovna Rada. According to her, the average salary of a teacher is 12,000 hryvnias (€270), while that of a prosecutor is 68,000 hryvnias (€1,530).

Prosecutors are justifying their pay raise by citing the increase in the minimum living wage, which has not been adjusted since 2021, while judges argue for the need to introduce bonuses of up to 40% of the base salary for judges of first-instance courts, claiming that “no one wants to work in local courts due to low pay.”

At the same time, no salary increase is planned for medical workers and teachers, as ministers “failed to defend their positions.” Yuzhanina mentioned that Minister of Education Oksen Lisovyi, for example, acknowledges the lack of state funds and promises to review teacher salaries as soon as resources become available.

Earlier, Minister Lisovyi had stated that there were no funds available to raise teachers’ salaries, noting that an additional 270 billion hryvnias (€6.076 billion) would be required to increase pay for all education workers.