In December 2016 salary debts to state miners decreased 5.9 times, from 212.19 million UAH to 36.09 million UAH as of January 1, 2017.
According to the Ministry of energy and coal industry in 2016 the average salary of a state coal employee totaled 6576 UAH, up by 9.8% YoY.
The data concerns only the coalmining companies situated on the Ukraine-controlled territory. (Ukrainian metal)