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24% of Ukrainian workers said they would like to stay in Ukraine permanently, 14% for three years or more, and 23% for one year or less.
4.4.2​ Nominal wages dynamics
Real wages in Ukraine increased 5.1% y/y in July​, accelerating slightly from 4.8% y/y growth in June, the State Statistics Service reported on August 27.
The average monthly nominal wage rose to UAH11,804 a month ($432) from UAH11,579 in June, or 2.6% m/m in real terms.
The leading regions for average monthly wages were the city of Kyiv (UAH17,053), Ukrainian-controlled Donetsk (UAH13,071) and Dnipropetrovsk region (UAH12,099). The largest nominal average wage increase was in “other services” (33.5%), medicine and social services (17.9% y/y), and information and telecommunications (14.4% y/y).
Within the industrial sector, the highest growth of nominal wages was in electricity and gas supply (20.4% y/y), water supply (16.5% y/y), and coke and oil production (12.1% y/y).
“Apparently, the ​0.6% m/m deflation in July​ contributed to some reinforcement of real wages growth in July. In the meantime, the growth of wages amid the recessing economy​ implies that the crisis has not had a deeply negative effect on the labor market and that the demand for labor stays high,” Evgeniya Akhtyrko of Concorde Capital said in a note.
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy is preparing to submit to parliament a bill to implement a planned hike of the monthly minimum wage to UAH5,000 ($180) ​starting on September 1, President's Office deputy head Yulia Kovaliv told a press briefing on August 6. Parliament might approve
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