Salary of the President of the Russian Federation as a separate line in the budget of the country

Regardless of the type of government established in a particular state, any country lives according to a certain system, headed by a person. In this case, this person is a representative of either the people or traditions. For example, the Queen of Great Britain. In fact, it is the only lever that controls the mechanism called "monarchy". In practice, however, all decisions taken come from the country's parliament. In this case, the queen regularly receives her salary. It is a well-established tradition of Foggy Albion.

The salary of the president as an employee of the state apparatus

In democracies the situation is slightly different. Being a servant of the state apparatus, the president of a given country also receives a salary. At the same time, every ruble, peso or rupee he works, as they say, "from A to Z". The salary of the president of the Russian Federation or of another country is not disclosed to anyone aloud, but interested persons can easily find this figure. For example, in the annual budget. It is this document that contains such a line as "Expenses for the functioning of the head of state". From year to year, the budget suffers changes and amendments, and introduces new articles and lines into its content. However, this part of the costs is always in the first place.

Approximate figure of the budget item

However, the figure, which is located in this line, will only approximately show us the real salary of the head of state. Why? First, the annual budget is a kind of business plan in which all items of expenditure are calculated for the future and are only approximate. In drawing up this document, analysts rely on such concepts as inflation, crises, the growth of various tax rates, state duties, and so on. At the same time, it is impossible to predict with 100% accuracy the level of many instruments that affect future expenditures. For example, in 2005 the annual budget was planned to spend on the described article 4.1 billion rubles. Actually, about 5.9 billion rubles were spent.

Secondly, the salary of the Russian president in this line is only a part of it. "Expenses for the functioning of the head of state" also include the costs of his deputies and administration. In addition to the official salary, the president of Russia enjoys numerous privileges. These include departmental housing, country residences, official transport and so on.

Comparing countries

In 2009, the British tabloid Financial Times published an article in which he posted the figures of the salaries of the heads of state of different countries. So, the salary of the president of the Russian Federation (at that time he was Dmitry Medvedev) was an order of magnitude lower than that of his foreign colleagues. Leader of the list of "powerful of this world" was Barack Obama. His salary per year was 292 thousand euros. For comparison: Dmitry Medvedev received only a quarter of this amount. In the same year, the head of the Russian state said that he would report annually on the amount of his income. Dmitry Medvedev explained that the well-known and "transparent" salary of the Russian president and civil servants is a measure to reduce the level of corruption that increased during the financial crisis. The words did not remain just empty phrases, and for several years the head of state regularly reports on his incomes.

The monthly salary of the president of the Russian Federation (2013) was about 270 thousand rubles. While the salary of ministers and MPs equated to them increased from September 1 to 420,000. According to proven data, the official salary of the Russian president for 2012 was almost 5 million 800 thousand, which is 2 million more than the figure of the previous year.