LDPR Proposes Bill Setting Teacher Pay Floor at 150% of Regional Average

Overview

• The LDPR-led initiative, shared with RIA Novosti, seeks to amend Part 3 of Article 99 of the federal education law.
• It specifies that wage expenditures in regional funding norms for municipal general schools cannot fall below 1.5 times the average salary in the respective region.
• The explanatory note says full-time teachers’ pay would rise proportionally, including in regions with limited fiscal capacity.
• Party leader Leonid Slutsky cites a shortage of hundreds of thousands of teachers and says overwork is driving burnout and attrition.
• In a separate development, a Khabarovsk court set a January 26 hearing on a lawsuit to lift teachers’ base pay to at least the minimum wage, with the current base at 12,247 rubles versus a 27,093-ruble minimum from January 1, 2026.