Payment for work in municipal units

On the data from the Taganrog sociological surveys of households in 2000 and 2014 the article analyses dynamics of the levels and differentiation in work remuneration of employed workers and private entrepreneurs. The main trend in the period under observation in Taganrog, like in the country on the whole, was increase of wages and reduction of their differentiation. However, these processes in the city were much more intensive due to raising the minimum wage at the federal level and high employment in the budget sector of the economy. Increase of wages was the main reason for decrease in secondary employment. Growth rates of employees’ wages were higher than growth rates of entrepreneurial income. At the same time, the average income of private entrepreneurs remained much higher than the average wage of the employed, but yet the number of entrepreneurs decreased.