As he pointed out to RIA Novosti, the increase in the salary of the head of the Irkutsk region is associated with the need to index the salaries of civil servants from October 1, 2019 in accordance with the decree of the president.
“For now, we can say that the increase in the salary of the governor is due to the implementation of the presidential decree on indexing the salaries of civil servants from October 1, 2019,” said Dobrodeev.
Along with this, he added that information about a change in salary of approximately 44% is untrue.
Earlier it was reported that Levchenko suggested raising his salary from 18,800 rubles to 27,167 rubles.
On October 7, Russian leader Vladimir Putin signed a decree on a 4.3% increase in salaries to the president and chairman of the Russian government.