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Azatutyun Radio: Tigran Avinyan’s Salary Will Be at Least 2 Million 80 Thousand Drams

Yerevan Mayor Tigran Avinyan’s salary will amount to at least 2 million 80 thousand drams, including taxes, starting January 1, 2027. As Azatutyun Radio reports, the Yerevan Council of Elders has approved a new remuneration calculation system establishing the coefficients for calculating the salaries of municipal officials.

Under the new system, the highest coefficient has been set for the position of mayor. As a result, Avinyan’s salary will increase by at least 760 thousand drams, from the current 1 million 320 thousand drams.

According to Armen Galjyan, head of the Civil Contract faction in the Council of Elders, the purpose of the change is to revise salaries. He explained that the final amounts will depend on the base salary set in the 2027 budget, which, by law, cannot be lower than 80 times the minimum wage.

The salary changes will also apply to the mayor’s deputies, assistants, spokesperson, heads of administrative districts, as well as other municipal employees. According to Galjyan, the plan is to include in salaries the bonuses that were previously paid separately from salaries. He claimed that, under the new system, the total remuneration of some employees could even decrease compared with the combined amount of their current salaries and bonuses, but he did not provide specific figures.

The opposition Mother Armenia faction voted against the draft. The faction’s head, Manuk Sukiasyan, criticized the intention to raise salaries, pointing to increases in public transport fares, red-line parking fees, property taxes, and local fees, as well as traffic congestion and environmental problems in Yerevan. According to him, citizens’ financial burden has increased, while the city’s problems have not been resolved.

According to the assessment of the Anti-Corruption National Initiative (ANI), a sharp increase in municipal salaries is at least strange under conditions of a budget deficit and the resulting need to attract external debt. All the more so given that the municipality headed by Tigran Avinyan has not particularly distinguished itself through effective work to date.

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