Minimum wage to increase in Kazakhstan

The minimum wage will be increased from 70 to 85 thousand tenge in Kazakhstan. Thanks to this, the cash incomes of about 1.8 million employees working in all industries at enterprises of various forms of ownership, including about 350 thousand state employees, will grow, El.kz reports with reference to the Central Communications Service.

"The Ministry, together with experts from the World Bank, has developed a Methodology for determining the minimum wage, according to which the size of the minimum wage will be determined based on the average wage and labor productivity," Minister of Labor and Social Protection of the Population of the Republic of Kazakhstan Svetlana Zhakupova said during a press conference in the CCS.