WAGE SYSTEMS AND LABOR STATISTICS IN THE HOUSE

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• Document Page Count: 9
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 24, 2011
• Sequence Number: 308
• Publication Date: January 28, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION m -
CENTRAL I i NCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT Economic - Labor statistics
HOW
PUBLISHED Book
WHERE
PUBLISHED Moscow
DATE
PUBLISHED 1944
LANGUAGE Russian
WAGE SYSTEMS AND LABOR STATISTICS
ff; THE USSR
The Wage Fund
There are two types of wage funds: one, a fund of wages actually paid. out
during the accounting period, and the other, a calculated wage fund for work
performed during the accounting period, regardless of vhe?ner or not payment
was actually effected. Labor statistics uaual.ly concern the calculated wage
fund since it is more cloeely connected with The work indices of a given enter-
prise or establishment for the accounting period and also because it is used
as a basis ror -rage planning, All wages calculated for an enterprise or es-
tablishment for work during the accounting period are fully entered in the cal-
culated fund regardless of whether or not the work was inclut' d in the plan
and whether or not the work was fulfilled by workers on the payroll or by per-
sons not listed on the regular payroll of the given enterprise or establish-
ment.
DATE OF
INFORMATION 1944
DATE DIST. Ag Jan 1953
NO. OF PAGES 9
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
Slovar'-spravochnik po sotsial'no-ekonamichesko statistike (Diction-
ar;/-Textbook for Social Economic Statistics , Gosplanizdat, Moscow, 1944,
pp 211-221.
The wage fund of an accounting period includes: (1) all wages calculated
for a work period according to rates,, salaries, peice rates or the aver-
age earnings of the pieceworker; (2) collective piecework payments; (3) ex-
tra pay for difficult working coaditicas,for transfer to higher grades, and
for longevity; (4) pay for forced worn stoppages as stipulated by law; (5)
additional pay to pieceworkers in connection with a change of working condi-
tions; (6) bonuses for fulfillment and overfulfiliment of the plan and for
qualitative indices (in addition to bonuses from the fund to aid inventions
and technological improvements, bonuses from special funds, and bonuses frog
profitv); (7) percentage rewards (percentage of the turnover, etc.); (8) ad-
dit.tonal.pay for overtime and night work; (9) pay to bilgade leaders still un-
der contract for organizing the work of brigades; (10) extra pay for training
apprentices on the job; (11) extra pay 'or work in remote areas; (12) pay to
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adolescents for work during preferential f1'gotnyye) hours; (13) pay for rest
periods for nursing mothers; (14) pay for working time lost in the fulfillment
of state duties and for time lost in military muster in accordance with the
law; (15) payments for leaves of absence; (16) transportation to and from the
place where leave is spent for workers in remote areas and in the Far North;
(17) compensation for unused leave; (18) discharge payments; (19) pay to work-
ers for time spent in school while continuing to be carried on the payroll of
the enterprise or establishment; (20) the cost of free public utilities and
the free delivery of food products and other articles in cases stipulated by
law; (21) monetary compensation for living quarters and public utilities stipu-
lated by law or by contract, but not actually allocated; (22) literary fees,
lecturing fees, and other fees, awards of medals and pay for special commis-
sions, services and work; (23) full payment of wages to apprentices, regard-
less of'the sources financing such apprenticeshipz.
It is not permitted to exclude from the wage fund various deductions (in-
come tax, deductions by writ, etc.?, including deductions from wages for ex-
cessive use of fuel and deductions in connection with a worker's financial re-
sponsibilityfbr the proper upkeep of government property and valuable material
entrusted to him.
In the course of current accounting a monthly wage fund is usually kept,
which is made up of all the elements of the wage fund enumerated above. The
sum of the monthly funds for 3 months makes up the quarterly fund, and the sum
for 12 months makes up the yearly wage fund,
In addition to the monthly wage fund, a daily fund and an hourly fund are
also kept.
All elements of the fund dealing with man-days worked enter into the daily
wage fund. Sums which are not directly connected with time worked do not en-
ter into the daily wage fund. In this way) all payments due for piece rates,
bonuses, extra pay for overtime and night work, pay for work stoppages not caused
by the worker, pay for rest periods for nursing mothers, and all types of ex-
tra pay connected with certain working conditions (work injurious to the worker's
health, remoteness of place of work, longevity pay, pay to piecevorkers in con-
ne::2ion with a cttnge of working conditions, etc.), are included in the daily
fund. Such sums as pay for leaves of absence, discharge pay, monetary compen-
sation for lee: c. living juarters and public u'.ilities, and similar payments
not connected with time worked are not included in the daily wage fund.
Those elements of the fund which are related to time worked in man-hours go
into the hourly wage fund. This includes all elements of the daily fund
with the exception of remuneration for current (intrashift) work stoppages, re-
muneration for rest periods for nursing mothers, extra nay for overtime work,
and remuneration for time lost in fulfilling government duties during a working
day.
Enterprises and establishments hire temporary workers for all kinds of odd
Jobs for a period of less than one day and uct more than 5 days, These workers
are not included on the payroll of the enterprise or establishment, but the
rages due these workers must be calculated separately and later ~ncludod in the
g'neral wage fund. The separate calculation of the wage fund paid to persons
nol.on the payroll is necessary because in the computation of the average wage
by;branch of industry,, wages payable to persons not Cl) the payroll are not in-
clSided in t`e wage fund. These wages are included only in tut: compuLe.tiou of
t._n 'iv,-rage, rage for' the entire national economy.
The above-mentioned wage funds (hourly, dal).y, monthly, and puarterly) are
calculated in the case of hired workers, employees, and cooperative handicrafts-
men. In addition, wages are also payable to military personnel and other categories
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not considered as civilian employees. Labor statistics in a centralized sys-
tem include the calculation of the so-called full wage fund,'covering all pay.
ments coming under the item of wages calculated for workers, employees, and
cooperative handicraftsmen, as well as for ,ther persons (military personnel
and others.)
The Average Wage
labor statistics compute the average wage by the hour, day, month, quarter,
and year.
The average hourly wage is calculated by dividing the hourly fund, computed
for a certain month, by the number cc man-bourn worked in that month. The
average daily wage is computed by dividing the daily wage fund by the number
of man-days worked during the month, and the average monthly wage is arrived
at by dividing the monthly fund by the average number of workers on the pay-
roll during the month. The average quar!er1y wage and the average yearly
wage are calculated by dividing t ecorresponding quarterly or yearly fund by
the average number of workers on the payroll for the given period.
In calculating the average monthly, quarterly, and yearly wage in those
branches of the national economy in which persons may be holders of more than
one office (education, public health, and state and public institutions),
and also in calculating the average wage for the entire national economy from
the average number of workers on the payroll, holders of more than one po-
sition are excluded and the total amounte of their wages remain in the general
fund. In calculating the average wage for the entire national economy, wages
paid to persons not listed on the payroll of an enterprise are also included.
Wages According to Rate Schedules and Piece Rates
Wages of workers and employees of various skills and qualifications are
based on the wage-rate schedules and individual wage rates. Industrial work-
ers are evaluated according to thei? qualifi;.ations,ard are theu assigned to
a fixed wage category, for which i!ag