According to the main statistics department in the Volyn region, in the first quarter of this year the average salary of Volyn residents was 354 hryvnias. The earnings indicator remains one of the lowest in Ukraine (an even lower average salary is only in the Ternopil and Khmelnytskyi regions). \nTraditionally low pay characterizes agriculture, primary education, the spheres of individual services and social assistance. The most affluent are workers in Kovel (473 hryvnias), the least money is received in the Rozhyshche, Ratne and Turiisk districts (214-221 hryvnias). \nReal wages over the first three months grew by 29.8% compared with 20.1% in the corresponding period last year. Wage arrears decreased by 8%. More than half of the debts belong to industrial enterprises, a fifth to agricultural ones. Almost 21 thousand Volyn residents did not receive their earned wages, on average 563 hryvnias each. \n