According to the Statistics Committee of the Ministry of National Economy of Kazakhstan, in the third quarter of 2018, the nominal wage index compared to the corresponding quarter of last year was 109.3%, real - 103.1%.

The real wage index is determined by dividing the nominal wage index by the consumer price index for goods and services. Both indices refer to the same time period.

The list number of employees at enterprises and organizations (excluding small enterprises engaged in entrepreneurial activities) for the 3rd quarter of 2018 amounted to 3,755.5 thousand people, the actual number is 3,543 thousand people.

The list number of employees - the number of persons accepted under an employment contract, regardless of the term of its conclusion, as well as people employed on a voluntary basis.

The actual number of employees (accepted for calculating the average wage) is the number of employees on the payroll minus certain categories of workers who have a formal attachment to work (persons on maternity leave, child care, and others).

The average monthly nominal wage per employee in Q3 2018 was 161,783 tenge (99.4% as a percentage of the previous quarter, 109.3% as compared to the corresponding quarter of the previous year).

By region, the highest wages are paid in Atyrau region - 310,568 tenge, 273,160 tenge - in Mangystau, 240,683 tenge - in Astana.

In Almaty, the average wage was 197,736 tenge, 155,796 - in WKR, 146,324 in Karaganda, 139,015 in Pavlodar, 137,526 in Aktobe, 135,841 in East Kazakhstan, 132,829 in Kyzylorda, 125,522 in Kostanay, 121,358 in Akmola , 113 716 in Shymkent, 113 660 in Almaty, 110 988 in Zhambyl, 110 853 in North Kazakhstan, 98 834 in Turkestan region.

The average monthly nominal wage per employee is determined by dividing the amount of the accrued wage fund by the actual number of employees and the number of months in the reporting period.

The top 10 spheres of activity in which they receive the maximum wage include: sea and coastal freight transport 683,234 tenge (100.8% from the previous quarter, 99% to the corresponding quarter of last year), employment 563,449 (109.4% -113.1%), water transport 560,818 (101.4% - 97.2%), activities of parent companies; management consulting 505,020 (108.2% -95.2%), compulsory social insurance activities 499,228 (112.4% -116.2%), pipeline transportation 472,658 (121.7% - 115 , 8%), passenger air transport 417 865 (96.8% - 114.8%), air transport 414 931 (97.1% - 114.5%), insurance, reinsurance and pension funds, except compulsory social insurance 378,930 (128.9% -160%), auxiliary activities in the provision of financial services and insurance 374,188 (86.9-136%).

The top 10 areas of activity with the lowest wage include: buying and selling real estate 51,438 tenge (79.3% compared to the previous quarter, -), fishing and aquaculture 58,378 (104.6% to the previous quarter - 150% to the corresponding quarter last year), pre-school (pre-primary) education 62 373 (92.1% -101.1%), social services with the provision of accommodation 78 314 (97.6% -103.9%), primary education (first level) 80,381 (85.7% -113.2%), provision of social services without accommodation 80,899 (99.7% -101.3%), security and investigation activities 87 734 (105.2% -107.8%), education 97 482 (84.6% -107.9%), higher education 149 784 (90.6% -117.7%), veterinary activity 98 236 (108.8% -101.4%).

Most of all, in the third quarter of 2018, wages increased by the corresponding quarter of last year in such areas as: the activities of tour operators, travel agents and other organizations providing services in the field of tourism - 162,838 tenge (99.2% -138.3%), support services for the provision of financial services and insurance 374,188 (86.9% -136%), repair of computers, personal and household goods 237,840 (105.8% - 128%), warehousing and storage of goods 130 530 (102, 4% -125.2%), administrative and support services 193,234 (107.8% -123.2%), river freight transport 149,737 (115.3% - 122.8%), higher education 149,784 (90.6% -117.7%), financial and insurance activities 317,413 (94.7% -116.4%), activities in the field of compulsory social insurance, 499,228 (112.4% -116.2%), state provision of services to the society as a whole 135,898 (99.8% - 115.9%).

Most of all, in the third quarter, wages fell to the corresponding quarter of last year in such areas as: auxiliary educational services KZT 143,576 (114.9% -78.6%), advertising and market research 156,364 (95.6% -83%), activities in the field of administrative and managerial, economic and other support services 172,149 (116.9% -87.7%), the production of film, video, and television programs, phonograms and music recordings 149,444 (90, 6% - 87.8%), freight transport by road and transfer services zkam 226 959 (97.9% - 90.1%), the activities of head offices; management consulting 505,020 (108.2% -95.2%), computer programming, consulting and other related services 304,281 (102.2% -96%), water transport 560,818 (101.4% - 97, 2%), real estate transactions on a fee or contract basis 144,229 (116.3% -98%), sea and coastal freight transport 683,234 (100.8% - 99%).

In terms of regions, the largest actual number of employees is in Almaty (467.2 thousand people), in the Karaganda region (321 thousand), East Kazakhstan region (283.5 thousand), in Astana (265.7 thousand), in Almaty region (225, 1 thousand), Turkestan region (207 thousand), Atyrau region (201.8 thousand), in the city of Shymkent (183.8 thousand people).

The smallest - in NKR (114.9 thousand), WKR (133.4 thousand), in Kyzylorda region (145.7 thousand), Akmola (149.9 thousand), Mangystau (150 thousand), Zhambyl (158.9 thousand) , Kostanay (178.2 thousand), Aktobe (181.7 thousand), Pavlodar (190 thousand people).

By type of economic activity, most of the workers work in education (952.7 thousand people, of which 710.4 thousand are women), 620.1 thousand - in industry (including 161.2 thousand women), 408.5 thousand in state management and defense, in compulsory social security (139.2 thousand women), 407.2 thousand in health care and social services (319.2 thousand women), 220.9 thousand in transport and warehousing (57.2 thousand women), 165.9 thousand - in construction (18.8 thousand women), 135 thousand in activities in the field of administrative and support services (26.3 thousand the same Shin).