The average nominal salary in Ukraine for June 2020 was UAH 11.579 (about $ 420), the Ukrainian state statistics service reported on July 29. The agency notes that this is 2.5 times higher than the minimum wage in the country (UAH 4,723), the news agency reports. It is also noted that compared to May, the average nominal wage increased by 9.8%, and compared to June 2019 increased by 7.4%. The state staff also reports that the largest average nominal salary for the last month in Ukraine was for employees in the field of financial and insurance activities on average UAH 19.324; then follows the branch of information and telecommunications (18.926 UAH) and state administration and defense (16.386 UAH). the news agency recalls that in early July, Prime Minister Denis Shmygal said that the Ukrainian government planned three stages of raising the minimum wage for the next year, first to UAH 5 thousand, then to UAH 6 thousand and UAH 6.5 thousand. According to the prime minister, an increase