Interregional Differentiation of Remuneration of Educators in Extracurricular Education (Part 1)

The events of the last year have shown the importance and correctness of the course for the development of the training system in the development of all levels of the national education system. Extracurricular education, which is not compulsory, plays a special role in its structure, because it allows you to more fully reveal the potential of the child and make his development more harmonious. On the basis of Rosstat data we show that educators’ salaries continue to be rather low. The focus of our attention is on educators of extracurricular education who work in municipal educational institutions. These institutions are the backbone of the extracurricular education system. The Presidential decrees of 2012 made it possible to raise salaries in extracurricular education, but educators' salaries continue to be well below the regional average and the problem is far from being resolved. At the same time, there are significant inter-regional differences, which are caused primarily by economic reasons. In the more economically developed regions or in the regions with specialization in hydrocarbon extraction the state of educators is better. In agrarian regions with weak manufacturing industry, their salaries are lower. Plans to modernize extracurricular education and increase its contribution to the socio-economic development of the country are currently threatened by the rather low pay of educators, which does not correspond to the social importance of their work and can be eliminated in a reasonable time if the political will is present.