During a crisis, employees public sector the most difficult, because in order to save the budget, they are cut in the first place. Indeed, in some state organizations in the pre-crisis years, the state was previously bloated, and now the government is getting rid of the excess personnel. We will figure out what news to expect about the Pension Fund in 2019, whether there will be cuts, and how the work of this state organization will change.
Fund reorganization
It became known at the end of 2014 that the reduction of PFR employees was coming. In 2015, according to the then adopted project, 10% of workers in the Pension Fund were fired. This was the very beginning of the process of reorganization of this state structure. The fact is that the PFR has had a deficit budget for many years, and in such a situation it is difficult and unjustified to maintain a large staff of employees. In this regard, a plan was created to reorganize the fund over the coming years.
No major layoffs are expected in 2019. A relatively small number of positions will be removed from the state. Ordinary employees of district offices will be the last to be affected by the layoffs, the bulk of the staff will be removed from the departments. Many FIU clients are worried that there will be more queues, but in reality this is not the case. Specialists working with citizens are not going to be fired in the coming years.
The Fund will start working mostly with individuals, businessmen will report to the tax authorities. The plans for the coming year include the disbandment of one of the largest departments and the reduction of more than sixteen thousand specialists. The division responsible for the administration of the payment of contributions to off-budget funds will be disbanded. From the beginning of next year, the tax inspectorate, and not the FIU, will work on this. Relevant legislative acts already signed.
What changes have been made to the current codes
At the beginning of July 2016, several federal laws:
- No. 243 - on amendments to the Tax Code regarding the administration of insurance premiums;
- No. 250 - on changing the provisions of legislative acts (parts one and two of the Tax Code);
- No. 346 - on amendments to the Budget Code (Article 46 and part two of Article 47 will be corrected).
The law came into force at the beginning of 2017, as the transfer of powers takes a lot of time. Previously, almost 16,000 people were involved in keeping records of insurance premiums. All of them will be laid off, but qualified employees will have the opportunity to get a new job:
- in the Pension Fund in another position;
- in tax office(in a similar department established).
A sharp increase in the number of unemployed in the country due to the new initiative is not expected. However, it will be possible to get a new place in most regions only after certification. Unqualified employees will not be accepted for similar workplace. The knowledge testing procedure is necessary in order to increase the effectiveness of the fund. According to recent inspections, some employees do not fulfill their duties in full.
Why it is necessary to cut employees
The government, making a reduction in the FIU, pursues several goals at once:
- reduces the cost of the fund for wages;
- strengthens the payment discipline of entrepreneurs;
- optimizes the work of the organization;
- makes reporting easier for entrepreneurs.
Among them, the primary goal is to change the order of reports for entrepreneurs and tighten control over the contribution of funds to extra-budgetary funds. It is known that every fifth owner of a limited liability company does not pay contributions even by a court decision. In this regard, the filling of the PFR cannot be called effective. The fact is that at present, contributions to off-budget funds are not assigned the status of tax and the responsibility for non-payment of them is less.
By liquidating the administration department and transferring its powers to the tax department, the government transfers the status of payments to another branch of legislative law. Responsibility for failure to fulfill their obligations under it will be more serious.
A positive aspect will also be the reduction in the cost of wages for fund specialists. Now only qualified employees will work, and the reduction in their number will not only reduce the burden on the budget, but will also allow salaries to be indexed in a timely manner. According to the results of two years (2016 and 2017), about 20% of the fund's employees will be laid off.
Where will businessmen submit reports?
One of the advantages of the updated Tax Code is that the burden on entrepreneurs in terms of the number of inspectors will be reduced. They will not need to withstand regular inspections by the FIU, but will only report to the tax authorities.
On the one hand, the solution of issues on contributions on the basis of a one-stop shop in the Federal Tax Service - positive moment. On the other hand, business representatives fear that the terms of inspections will henceforth be significantly increased. Previously, representatives of the FIU carried out a desk audit within ten days, while the tax authorities worked with documents for a month. This significantly hampered the work of Russian companies.
The deputies respond to the fears of businessmen that the reduction of employees of the Pension Fund and the delegation of their duties to the tax service will be carried out as quietly as possible for business. There will be more specialists in the Federal Tax Service, so no increase in data processing time is expected. Additionally, over the next three years, new reporting forms (more simple) and data processing programs will be introduced.
Businessmen should be wary of the introduction of more severe measures for late payment of contributions. The Ministry of Justice has already prepared a package of amendments to the Criminal Code, which are developed similarly to the points on non-payment of taxes.
How did the FIU react to this news?
Representatives of the Ministry of Labor and the leadership of the Pension Fund oppose the initiative of the authorities. They see no reason to transfer authority to the tax service. The main arguments of the opponents of the initiative:
- All reports are subject to quick desk review;
- most payers submit documents in in electronic format, which is very convenient for both specialists and businessmen;
- high collection rates (this claim has been refuted by recent data);
- debugged system.
None of these arguments in the government was considered weighty. The ability to submit reports remotely exists in the Federal Tax Service. Contributions to the budget and funds are interconnected. If they are administered in one place, any errors and underpayments will be found faster.
A few years ago, the Federal Tax Service was already involved in pension contributions. Then the department could not cope with the load, and its efficiency was not great. Now it is planned to create a new department on the basis of the tax service, which will be responsible for insurance contributions. This should optimize the work on collections to all off-budget funds.
The Pension Fund of Russia is the largest non-budgetary organization in terms of the size of the mobilized resources.
Financial management of pension funds includes:
Target collection and accumulation of insurance premiums;
Control with the participation of the fund's tax authorities;
Financial payments of pensions.
Pension Fund Russian Federation also has a number of its own expenses and income, like other organizations. Income comes primarily from:
Insurance premiums of citizens;
Employer payments;
Voluntary contributions.
As for expenses, they are entirely directed towards the payment of care allowances, logistical and financial security activities of the organization, payment of state pensions.
Program to increase the salary of employees of the Pension Fund
For the first time they started talking about a salary increase in 2013. A program was created in which it was said about increasing the salary of the leaders of the Pension Fund by 3 times. In 2014, a decree was issued to increase the salaries of employees.
The first bonus to the basic salary was accrued almost immediately. Do not forget that qualified employees of the Pension Fund received significant bonuses every month even without an increase, and the head also received bonuses in the amount of 2.7% of cash incentives.
From 2015 to 2016 there was a significant economic crisis. Therefore, the increase in wages for employees of the fund was frozen and the salary growth stopped. Employers did everything to reduce the amount of costs, so they even fired employees. The authorities decided to reduce spending from the state treasury for the current year in the amount of 600 billion rubles.
The most main reason This is due to the imposed sanctions and a decrease in the level of oil prices on the world market. It was decided not to index the salaries of civil servants and the military in order to reduce spending from the state budget. Employees of the Pension Fund still hope for stabilization and wage increases in the near future.
How has salary changed in recent years?
The salaries of public sector employees have been slowly but gradually increasing in recent years. Compared to the 2000s, in the period up to 2015, salaries increased 15 times, from 2,223 rubles to 34,030 rubles. Although revenues increased rather slowly in 2014 due to low oil prices, at the beginning of 2016 the average wage per month for employees of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation amounted to 36,525 rubles. This amount is 7.8% higher than in 2015.
Real numbers and payroll
Since the beginning of the year, the average salary of pension fund employees has increased by 15%. In other words, the income of workers in this area will be significantly higher than the average for the whole country. But in real life salary does not exceed 27,000 rubles.
To date, the most highly paid position in the entire Pension Fund - this is the head of the customer service department. His salary is 28,300 rubles. Salary in the amount of 25,000 is provided for such positions as deputy head of department, specialist - expert economic department, lawyer, Chief Specialist- expert and head of department.
There is a small difference between their salaries, which does not exceed 200 - 300 rubles. Within the limits of 16,000 rubles, a leading specialist is received - an expert, an inspector and a programmer. A salary of 19,000 rubles is provided for a senior specialist and a specialist - an expert.
The minimum wage is received by a specialist and a leading specialist. At this time, it is only 14,000 rubles. But the system does not intend to stop at such incomes. The nearest plans of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation are to increase the allowance for their employees.
The amount of allocated funds should be about 83 billion rubles. To calculate the average income of a worker in this field of activity, you need to add the sum of income for the previous and previous years, then divide the total by 731 days ( calendar days for both years).
When calculating, exclude days that are not included in the calendar. We are talking about:
Child care leave;
sick leave;
Exemption from work under the legislation of the Russian Federation; maternity leave.
All wages are taxed. This is a contribution to off-budget funds, income tax individuals and payment of contributions for injuries. For individuals, the amount of tax payment is from 13 to 30%.
In terms of contributions, pension contributions are 22%, health insurance - 5.1%, social insurance - 2.9%, injuries - from 0.2 to 8.5%.
What can employees of the Pension Fund expect in 2018?
In 2018, there will be a significant reduction in the Pension Fund of Russia. The staff will decrease by approximately 12,000 people, which is about 10% of the total. It follows from this that the salary of one specialist will increase to 63,000 rubles, that is, 10,000 more than before.
Formally, all employees of the Pension Fund are not civil servants. Therefore, it is quite possible that wage indexation may not be carried out at all. Although the remuneration of their employees should be carried out from own funds However, more than 40% of all spending falls on the federal budget.
The head of the Accounts Chamber, Tatyana Golikova, proposed to merge three social non-budgetary funds - the Pension Fund of Russia (PFR), social insurance(FSS) and compulsory medical insurance (FOMS). The merger of the funds has not yet been discussed in the government, but theoretically it could save more than a quarter of the current costs of maintaining them.
Tatyana Golikova: The United Compulsory Social Insurance Fund should not be in state, but in public ownership. A photo: Anton Novoderezhkin / TASS
This idea was expressed by the head of the Accounts Chamber as part of a report on reforming public administration spending. She presented it at the Gaidar Forum organized by the RANEPA, the Association of Innovative Regions of Russia and the Gaidar Institute.
According to Golikova, 162,800 people work in the three funds, which is only slightly less than half of the number of employees in 53 federal authorities subordinate to the government. The cost of maintaining the funds is 143.8 billion rubles a year. "They are fully provided for by the insurance premiums that are collected in the budgets of these state off-budget funds as taxes on the wage fund," Golikova stressed.
According to the head of the Accounts Chamber, it is necessary to eliminate the need to create parallel information systems all three funds: the resources they spend on informatization are quite large. "According to the experience of most similar institutions, the unified compulsory social insurance fund should be a unique management structure that is not in state ownership, but in public ownership. Why in public ownership? Because part of the budget of this fund, namely insurance premiums, administers the Federal Tax Service and it remains such an administrator. We are talking about the distribution of those resources that come as a revenue part," Golikova said.
According to the Vice-Rector of the Academy of Labor and social relations Alexander Safonov, the possible merger of social funds will not be quick. "Taking into account the revision, preparation of the draft law, a single information platform - this is a project of not one or two, but about five years," he said. In his opinion, the cost of maintaining social funds after their possible merger could be reduced by about 20-40 billion rubles.
As Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets later told reporters, the proposal to unite the three social fund was not discussed by the government (the Accounts Chamber is not part of the Cabinet of Ministers and does not have the right to initiate legislation). "Proposals must be balanced, we must understand what result we expect," she stressed. The head of the Ministry of Labor Maxim Topilin also noted that he had not yet seen official proposals for the merger of social funds.
In her speech, Tatyana Golikova also touched upon other issues of the effectiveness of spending on the public administration system. Thus, she once again questioned the expediency of the existence of federal agencies as separate departments. At the suggestion of the Accounts Chamber, agencies with a network of territorial bodies subordinate to them can be included in ministries as structural units or even become independent ministries or committees. Agencies that do not have territorial bodies can be transformed into state institutions subordinate to ministries.
In addition, the Accounts Chamber believes that the system of remuneration of officials is actually unbalanced. According to Golikova, in recent years there has been a significant disproportion in the remuneration of civil servants. According to her, the salaries of officials of the same category can differ by two to three times. Also in 2016, the number of civil civil servants was reduced to the level of 2012, but this process affected only the lower level of management and led to an imbalance in the hierarchy of positions, the head of the Accounts Chamber noted.
“It seems to us that it is necessary to change the structure of the salary by increasing the share of guaranteed payments in its composition and establishing a clear relationship between incentive payments and indicators of the efficiency and effectiveness of civil servants,” Golikova said. In her opinion, this can increase the attractiveness of the civil civil service and encourage financially the most efficient workers. But such a mechanism will work only if the institution of attestation of civil servants is improved, the head of the Accounts Chamber specified.
The salary of pension fund employees in 2019 will increase by 15% - this became obvious back in 2018, when the amount of the state budget was made public. It should be borne in mind that the pledged amount in such a value implies a significant excess of the average statistical wages in Russia by 2 times.
Almost every Russian is aware of the fact of the budget deficit, which is reported annually by press services from bureaucratic offices.
To reduce the deficit, budgetary funds are being optimized, which concerns every second citizen. Here's what optimization is all about:
- in the fact that some part of Russian pensioners do not index their pensions;
- in the “freezing” of salaries and the temporary impossibility of raising them;
- in the reduction of staff units, which means layoffs.
Budgetary funds in the process of the notorious optimization are distributed unevenly: public funding often passes by those who need it most. There is no need to talk about justice in resolving such issues: there will always be dissatisfied with the decision made.
Table: wages in the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation for various regions in 2018-2019.
Job title | Average salary (expressed in Russian rubles) |
| Omsk region | |
| social work specialist | 12 800 – 15 000 |
| HR Specialist | 17 000 |
| Specialist | 13 000 – 15 000 |
| Kalachinsk | |
| Leading Lawyer | 18 000 |
| Specialist | 18 000 |
| Amur region | |
| Specialist | 20 000 |
| Inspector | 17 000 |
| Labor protection engineer | 18 000 – 24 000 |
| Bryansk region | |
| Leading Specialist | 13 000 |
| Programmer | 11 200 |
| Vladimir region | |
| Archivist | 12 280 |
| Specialist | 15 000 |
| Voronezh region | |
| Specialist | 11 160 – 13 000 |
| Labor protection engineer | 13 200 |
| Accountant | 18 000 – 19 000 |
| Irkutsk region | |
| HR Specialist | 17 900 |
| System Administrator | 25 000 |
| Kirov region | |
| Leading Specialist | 20 000 |
| Specialist | 14 000 – 16 000 |
| Kurgan region | |
| 17 400 | |
| Specialist | 17 000 |
| Leningrad region | |
| Leading Specialist | 18 000 |
| Chief Specialist | 14 800 – 17 000 |
| Head of the Group for Integrated Information Protection | 20 000 |
| St. Petersburg | |
| Leading Specialist | 16 000 |
| Chief Specialist | 20 000 |
| Leading specialist expert | 30 000- 35 000 |
| Moscow | |
| Chief Specialist-Expert of the Internal Financial Control Department | 28 000 |
| Leading Specialist of Methodology Department | 25 000 |
| Chief Specialist-Expert of the Department of Functional Design of Information Systems | 28 000- 30 000 |
| Chief specialist-expert of the project technical support department | 28 000 – 31 000 |
| Leading Specialist-Expert of the Human Resources Department | 22 000 – 25 000 |
| Chief specialist-expert of the production and technical department | 27 000 – 28 000 |
| Chief Specialist | 25 000 |
| Chief specialist-expert of the department of property relations | 27 000 – 28 000 |
| Chief Specialist-Expert of the Social Payments Subsystem Department | 25 000 – 28 000 |
| Chief Specialist-Expert of the Claims Review Department | 28 000 – 30 000 |
| Murmansk region | |
| Retirement Advisor | 16 000 |
| Nizhny Novgorod Region | |
| Leading Specialist | 18 000 – 20 000 |
| Specialist | 14 000 – 18 000 |
| Chief Accountant | 19 800 |
| Orenburg region | |
| Leading Specialist | 12 000 |
| Chief Specialist | 16 000 |
| Inspector | 12 800 |
| Head of Department | 16 000 |
| Lawyer | 13 000 |
| Rostov region | |
| Leading Specialist | 17 000 – 18 000 |
| Specialist | 14 000 |
| Senior Specialist | 15 000 |
| Ryazan Oblast | |
| Specialist | 16 000 |
| Inspector | 11 600 |
| Saratov region | |
| Specialist | 15 000 |
| Tomsk region | |
| Chief Specialist | 22 000 |
| Information technology specialist | 25 000 – 35 000 |
| Chief Legal Adviser | 26 000 – 33 000 |
| Yaroslavl region | |
| Leading Specialist | 17 000 |
| Specialist | 15 000 |
| Inspector | 12 000 |
| Chelyabinsk region | |
| Leading Specialist | 13 700 – 17 000 |
| Specialist | 14 000 |
The salary of employees of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation, according to them, does not exceed 27 thousand rubles a month on average.
This information differs from that announced by representatives of financial departments involved in planning the state budget. The following issues need to be addressed:
- what is the salary of the PFR employees;
- how much does it actually cost the state to maintain Pension Fund specialists (in numbers);
- how costs rise.
Growth of expenses for PFR employees
The stated plans of the Pension Fund include an increase in the cost of maintaining their specialists. In numbers, it looks like this: from 78.7 billion rubles in 2018 to 83 billion in 2019. The increase in spending on the PF apparatus looks strange, especially against the background that the state is acutely short of finances for indexing pensions.
Journalists of well-known media calculated:
- If we assume that 12 thousand rubles is an average pension, then the salary increase for employees of the pension department will cost 358 (!) thousand pensions.
- The calculated amount could allow supporting more than 30,000 pensioners. And this number does not take into account the fact that many receive a pension much less than the average.
- Full indexation of pensions by increasing the financing of PF workers is impossible, but justice towards those who are more in need would be more likely.
Trends in wage increases for PF employees look like this:
- The average salary increase should be close to 5.5%.
- The real increase in income is much higher, since the PF apparatus is threatened with numerous cuts: about 10% of employees will be laid off.
- The cost of maintaining an ordinary employee of the Pension Fund should be about 57 thousand rubles (before the staff reduction). In 2016, the expense was slightly lower - 54 thousand rubles a month. Where did the difference go if ordinary specialists claim that their salary is 27 thousand rubles? A question without an answer.
- In the event of a one-time staff reduction, the content of 1 PF specialist will reach almost 63 thousand rubles.
The average salary in the Pension Fund and a comparison of the number of staff of the Pension Fund of Russia with other countries
What else is included in the content of employees of the Pension Fund
Such large expenses imply not only the salary (in total, it is about 40 billion rubles) that employees receive, but also the following points:
- Formation of insurance premiums that the Pension Fund pays for its subordinates to insurance funds. It follows from this that the state not only provides income to employees, but also their future pensions, which the Pension Fund itself will then pay to its employees of retirement age. The amount of these insurance premiums is 30% of the salary, which is about 8 thousand rubles (based on an average salary of 27 thousand rubles). Thus, the formation of pensions for Pension Fund employees additionally takes 11.5 billion rubles from the state.
- The remaining 30 billion, requested from the state budget by the department, disappear in an unknown direction, since specific necessary expenses have not been presented. Perhaps the point is high bonuses or expensive business trips, which the heads of the department do not disdain. An analysis by Life.ru journalists of the travel records of PF employees showed that even middle-level managers consider it normal to buy tickets worth 100-200 thousand rubles at the expense of the fund.
- Some more expenses of the Pension Fund in numbers:
- information and explanatory activities - 185 million rubles;
- construction purchases, acquisition and rental of real estate - more than 14 billion rubles, in many cases (50%) the amounts were greatly exaggerated.
Number of Pension Fund employees per 1 million pensioners in Russia, USA and Sweden
Despite the shortage of the budget for the indexation of pensions, the Pension Fund will increase the salaries of its employees, follows from the draft budget of the Pension Fund of Russia. The document provides for an increase in expenses for payments to its specialists in 2017 - 83 billion rubles are allocated for the maintenance of personnel. This year, less was allocated for the same purposes - 78.7 billion rubles. In total, an additional 4.3 billion rubles will be allocated to increase pensions. Taking into account the fact that the average pension in Russia this year amounted to just over 12 thousand rubles, more than 358 thousand average pensions will be allocated to increase the income of PFR employees - or the annual maintenance of about 30 thousand pensioners.
The indexation of pensions in full this year was not carried out. FROM February . At the same time, the salaries of PFR employees will increase by at least 5.5%, and most likely by a large amount.
The point is that on next year it is planned to reduce the staff of the FIU, since from next year the function of the fund for the administration of insurance premiums will be transferred to the tax authorities.
As Life was told in the press service of the FIU, "in next year the staff is expected to be reduced by approximately 11.8 thousand people. Considering that 121.7 thousand specialists are currently working in the Pension Fund, there will be a decrease of 10%.
Interesting: earlier The Accounts Chamber noted that a much larger number of specialists are involved in the administration of contributions to the PFR - about 20 thousand people. So it is obvious that the reduction will not affect all those involved in the administration of contributions.
In addition, the process layoffs, obviously, will last for a year, but even with the current number of staff, on average, about 56.8 thousand rubles will come out to maintain one specialist in 2017. This is 5.4% more than this year - 53.9 thousand rubles. And if we assume that the PFR will cut all the extra employees at the beginning of the year, then the content of one remaining employee will increase by almost 17% to 62.7 thousand rubles.
However, there are other benefits that FIU employees like to use. For example, d even middle managersmembers of the Pension Fund of Russia allow themselves to spend 100-200 thousand rubles on air travel, say, from Moscow to Kaliningrad, Simferopol, Sochi and even Geneva and Paris,.
Salaries in the PRF have been growing for several years. Thus, in 2016, the maintenance of one specialist was on average 3.7% more than a year earlier. In 2015 - content grew by 9.9%.
At the same time, civil servants are now subject to a moratorium on indexing their salaries to inflation. The salaries of officials were already frozen in 2015 and 2016, and now, according to the draft federal budget, they want to extend this moratorium for another three years. The Ministry of Finance even called for the abolition of such a norm of the law on the indexation of salaries of officials. Moreover, the salaries of federal officials were even reduced by 10%, including in the presidential administration and in the government apparatus.
However, these restrictions do not formally apply to the FIU, experts say.
Employees of the PFR are not legally civil servants, since the PFR, although formally a state fund, is an extra-budgetary fund, says Natalia Milchakova, deputy director of the analytical department of Alpari. - Theoretically, the FIU should pay salaries to its employees from its own funds, without resorting to state assistance.
In fact, more than 40% of all PFR expenses, which this year amount to 7.7 trillion rubles, are covered by funds from the federal budget, that is, the PFR lacks 3.2 trillion rubles for these purposes. At the same time, the composition of expenses, along with the obligation to pay pensions to the population, also includes the planned costs of remuneration for the labor of specialists of the Pension Fund.
This year, for the first time in recent years, the principle of indexation of citizens' pensions was violated with the aim of optimizing the expenses of the PFR.
True, in the form of compensation, pensioners in January 2017 will additionally receive a one-time payment in the amount of 5 thousand rubles. But such a payment is still much less than the required indexation. Given that, according to Rosstat, the average pension in Russia amounted to 12 thousand rubles, in 2016 pensioners will receive less than 12.8 thousand rubles.
According to the Accounts Chamber, in January-August of this year, the real size of assigned pensions decreased by 3.7%.
The PFR reported that "the salaries of employees of the Pension Fund of Russia are set and increased in accordance with the standards at the level of salaries of employees of other federal departments (agencies)."
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