Russia Wants to Introduce Monthly Payments for Judges and Court Employees for “Complexity and Intensity”

Russia Wants to Introduce Monthly Payments for Judges and Court Employees for “Complexity and Intensity”

The Supreme Court has submitted to the State Duma a bill on additional monthly payments for “complexity and intensity” for judges and court employees in Russia, “Vyorstka” noted.

“Taking into account the high degree of responsibility involved in making judicial decisions, it appears advisable to provide an additional monthly payment for complexity and intensity to judges, as well as an additional monthly payment for complexity, intensity, and special procedural status to judges’ assistants and court hearing clerks, who are integral procedural figures,” the explanatory note to the bill says.

According to the bill, monthly payments to court chairpersons should amount to a minimum of 50% and a maximum of 200% of their salaries, to their deputies — 40-100%, to judges and chairpersons of a judicial panel or judicial composition — 40-100%, and to magistrates — 37%. Assistants to court chairpersons and deputy chairpersons would receive 45% of their salaries, while judges’ assistants and court hearing clerks would receive 40%.

To do this, the payroll fund is to include an additional 5.9 official salaries per year for judges in higher-level courts (in particular, cassation and appellate courts of general jurisdiction, regional and oblast courts, district (fleet) military courts, and others).

In lower-level courts — district, city, interdistrict, and garrison military courts — 5.2 official salaries will be allocated, and in magistrates’ courts — 4.7. For similar payments to judges’ assistants and court hearing clerks, the payroll fund will also include additional funds amounting to 4.6 salaries per year.

Among the reasons cited for introducing the new payments are the “insignificant indexation” of judges’ salaries over the past five years, as well as the “low level of wages” among judicial system employees, which has led to “high staff turnover” in court administrations.

All of this will require additional funds from the country’s budget in the amount of 16.6 billion rubles. If the bill is adopted in its current version, it will come into force on January 1, 2027.

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