Indebtedness of Enterprises and Organisations for Wages

Indebtedness of enterprises and organisations for wages

Number of enterprises indebted and size of debt, 1 January each year. Sectors and total of those sectors. Note that data and totals relate only to the enumerated sectors.

1993 / 1994 / 1995 / 1996 / 20.01.1996 / 23.12.1996
Trud i Zanyatost’ 1996 / Sotsial’no-ekonomicheskoe polozhenie Rossii, 12, 1996
Includes social sphere
Total, thousands / 11 / 24 / 31 / 40 / 71.6 / 103.1
Industry / 3 / 5 / 6 / 9 / 10.5 / 13.5
Agriculture / 5 / 15 / 20 / 21 / 22.4 / 25.3
Construction / 3 / 4 / 5 / 7 / 7.8 / 9.2
Transport / ... / ... / ... / 3 / 2.9 / 3.6
Total, billion roubles / 29 / 766 / 4200 / 13380 / 20804 / 47151
Industry / 15 / 364 / 2170 / 7734 / 10769 / 22149
Agriculture / 6 / 287 / 1301 / 2571 / 3064 / 5913
Construction / 8 / 115 / 729 / 1941 / 2934 / 6467
Transport / ... / ... / ... / 1134 / 1661 / 4025
Health / 823 / 2567
Education / 1398 / 4467
Culture / 155 / 482
Science / 1081
Percentage of the monthly wage fund of those enterprises in debt
Total / 58 / 81 / 143 / 141 / 153 / 272
Industry / 51 / 68 / 119 / 131 / 163 / 268
Agriculture / 65 / 114 / 214 / 200 / 173 / 327
Construction / 73 / 75 / 143 / 152 / 166 / 343
Transport / ... / ... / ... / 112 / 131 / 240
Health / 107 / 223
Education / 111 / 220
Culture / 106 / 234
Science / 377

Total debt, billion roubles at December 1995 prices, end period

1992 / 1993 / 1994 / 1995 / 1996
Industry / 1034 / 2653 / 5019 / 7734 / 18185
Agriculture / 397 / 2092 / 3009 / 2571 / 4855
Construction / 541 / 840 / 1686 / 1941 / 5310
Transport / 1134 / 3305
Health / 2108
Education / 3667
Culture / 396
Science / 888

Russian Economic Trends, 1997.1, p.75

Unpaid wages per head employed by region, January 1997

Wage debt per head employed January 1997, thousand roubles / wage debt as % of monthly wage bill
Kemerovo oblast / 2270 / 174
Krasnoyarsk krai / 2090 / 129
Republic of Mordoviya / 783 / 121
Republic of Sakha (Yakutiya) / 3028 / 121
Republic of Khakasiya / 1460 / 117
Karachaevo-Cherkessk Republic / 757 / 117
Republic of Buryatiya / 1340 / 115
Irkutsk oblast / 1756 / 113
Arkhangelsk oblast / 1287 / 110
Kurgan oblast / 779 / 108
Republic of Marii Yel / 620 / 104
Chitinsk oblast / 1217 / 104
Altai krai / 787 / 104
Omsk oblast / 939 / 103
Kirov oblast / 718 / 102
Republic of Bashkortostan / 880 / 101
Republic of Tyva / 899 / 100
Orenburg oblast / 956 / 99
Magadan oblast / 2728 / 99
Sakhalin oblast / 1933 / 99
Chukotsk autonomous okrug / 3275 / 96
Kursk oblast / 721 / 95
Tula oblast / 711 / 95
Kamchatka oblast / 2381 / 95
Chelyabinsk oblast / 949 / 94
Tambov oblast / 599 / 94
Republic of Tatarstan / 918 / 93
Komi Republic / 1664 / 91
Ulyanovsk oblast / 626 / 90
Saratov oblast / 632 / 90
Udmurt Republic / 732 / 90
Rostov oblast / 613 / 87
Penza oblast / 548 / 84
Volgograd oblast / 728 / 84
Ivanovo oblast / 500 / 83
Chuvash Republic / 519 / 82
Voronezh oblast / 547 / 82
Republic of Altai / 734 / 80
Jewish autonomous oblast / 832 / 80
Vologoda oblast / 844 / 79
Amur oblast / 1171 / 77
Yaroslav oblast / 645 / 76
Sverdlovsk oblast / 836 / 76
Kostroma oblast / 563 / 75
Bryansk oblast / 478 / 74
Khabarovski krai / 1067 / 72
Tver oblast / 478 / 72
Republic of South Osetiya-Alaniya / 447 / 71
Republic of Kalmykiya / 530 / 70
Ryazan oblast / 509 / 70
Russian Federation / 732 / 69
Novosibirsk oblast / 652 / 68
Tyumen oblast / 2179 / 68
Lipetsk oblast / 582 / 66
Republic of Kareliya / 747 / 64
Primorski krai / 896 / 64
Smolensk oblast / 409 / 60
Republic of Adygeya / 385 / 60
Kaluga oblast / 457 / 60
Astrakhan oblast / 490 / 58
Murmansk oblast / 1010 / 58
Belgorod oblast / 468 / 57
Republic of Ingushetiya / 345 / 57
Pskov oblast / 376 / 54
Tomsk oblast / 662 / 54
Perm oblast / 536 / 51
Vladimir oblast / 366 / 51
Republic of Dagestan / 218 / 50
Nizhnii Novgorod oblast / 384 / 49
Orlov oblast / 321 / 42
Leningrad oblast / 332 / 38
Kabardino-Balkarsk Republic / 239 / 36
Stavropol krai / 254 / 33
Krasnodar krai / 270 / 32
Novgorod oblast / 231 / 30
Moscow oblast / 259 / 28
Kaliningrad oblast / 229 / 28
Samara oblast / 288 / 24
Saint-Petersburg City / 229 / 22
Moscow City / 166 / 12

Note: These figures are calculated from:

1995 employed population by region, published in Trud i Zanyatost’ v Rossii, 1996, Goskomstat, Moscow 1997.

Average Wages (including social payments) by region, December 1996, and total wage indebtedness of enterprises and organisations by region, January 1997, published in Sotsial’no-ekonomicheskoe polozhenie Rossii, 1, 1997, Goskomstat, Moscow.

Note that the unpaid wage is expressed as a percentage of the wages actually due, not wages paid; including social payments, which add about a third to the net wage; and December wages are always about 20% higher than November and January. Thus the figure quoted gives a ranking and should be approximately doubled to give an indication of the average number of months for which wages have not been paid.

Estimated distribution of non-payment by industry, January 1997

Average wage delay in months:

Coal / 3.0
Gas / 2.6
Non-ferrous metals / 2.0
Agriculture / 1.8
Electricity generation / 1.8
Wood, pulp and paper / 1.8
Machine building and metal fabrication / 1.6
Construction materials / 1.5
Ferrous metals / 1.4
Total Industry / 1.3
Education and Culture / 1.3
Chemicals and petrochemicals / 1.2
Light Industry / 1.2
Total / 1.1
Construction / 1.0
Health / 1.0
Science / 0.9
Transport / 0.8
Oil extraction / 0.8
Oil Refining / 0.7
Food / 0.6

Author's estimates

Note: The estimates for industrial branches are approximate because it is not certain that the coverage of the data for wages, employment and wage delays is always exactly the same.

Share of budget arrears in total, %

1996.1 / 1996.2 / 1996.3 / 1996.4
Industry / 5.3 / 4.0 / 4.2 / 4.3
Construction / 6.1 / 4.8 / 6.0 / 4.4
Agriculture / 1.7 / 1.2 / 1.5 / 1.6
Transport / 12.1 / 12.6 / 11.8 / 14.0
Health / 81.5 / 81.7 / 83.0 / 80.7
Education / 97.4 / 95.4 / 97.4 / 98.7
Culture / 96.3 / 95.1 / 96.5 / 97.5
Science / 46.0 / 37.2 / 43.2 / 40.2
Total / 16.5 / 14.6 / 17.4 / 19.7