Minimum wage in Kazakhstan

Minimum wage in Kazakhstan is set by a special law. It is equally distributed across the country and there is no difference between the minimum wages in different cities.

According to Kazakh sources, minimum wage in Kazakhstan in 2010 was 14592 tenge. After that it increased to 21364 tenge in 2015. The current minimum wage in Kazakhstan, which was set on January 1 2017, equals 24,459 tenge. There is a lot of discussion about the low level of minimum wages in Kazakhstan. Because of that, the opposition party in Kazakhstan, Democratic Choice of Kazakhstan, has criticised the president of the country, Nursultan Nazarbayev.

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