Methodology: where the data comes from and how we calculate it
We use official open data only, check it and show it as it is: with the source, the period and the update date next to every number.
Sources
| Source | How often it is updated | Latest data | Licence |
|---|---|---|---|
| State Statistics Service of Ukraine (Derzhstat): survey of enterprises on labour statistics | monthly, around the 5th of the second month after the reporting month | August 2026 | CC BY 4.0 |
| Derzhstat: consumer price indices | monthly | September 2026 | CC BY 4.0 |
| State Employment Service: monthly data on data.gov.ua | monthly, about 4–6 weeks after the end of the month | August 2026 | CC BY 4.0 |
| State Employment Service: list of current vacancies (form 3-PN) | every working day; we take the first working day of the month | 1 October 2026 | CC BY 4.0 |
| National Bank of Ukraine: official hryvnia exchange rate against the US dollar | daily; we calculate the average rate for the month | October 2026 | — |
| Eurostat: persons under temporary protection (migr_asytpsm) | monthly, countries report at different times | August 2026 | Eurostat reuse policy (CC BY 4.0) |
We do not download job-search sites (Work.ua, robota.ua, DOU, Djinni and others). Their reports can be quoted with a link, but their databases are not open data.
What each indicator means
Average salary
The accrued salary of a full-time employee for the month, before personal income tax and the military levy. Derzhstat calculates it from a survey of enterprises with 10 or more employees. Sole proprietors, small businesses and informal employment are not included.
Derzhstat publishes two similar figures: the average salary for the month and the average since the start of the year. We show the salary for the month. For August 2026 it is UAH 31,892. The year-to-date average is different, and it is easy to confuse the two.
Real salary growth
The change in salary over the year, adjusted for inflation: (salary this month ÷ salary in the same month a year ago) ÷ (consumer price index over the year ÷ 100) − 1.
Full-time employees
The average number of full-time employees in the same Derzhstat survey. It is not the number of all employed people in Ukraine.
Registered unemployed and vacancies
People who have unemployed status at the State Employment Service, and vacancies registered with it. Most people look for work without the Employment Service, so these numbers describe only part of the market.
List of vacancies and the median salary
The open list of current vacancies that employers submitted to the Employment Service on form 3-PN. We take the file for the first working day of the month. The median is the salary below and above which an equal number of vacancies offer. We do not store phone numbers or vacancy descriptions.
Gaps in the data
- During martial law Derzhstat suspended publication of part of its data. There is no monthly average salary for February–December 2022 and September–December 2023. On the charts these months are shown as a gap, not as zero.
- Detailed data by industry within each region exists since 2025.
- The labour force survey (unemployment by the ILO methodology) in Derzhstat's open API ends in 2021. Derzhstat resumed the survey in 2026. As soon as new data appears, it will automatically appear on the site.
- The Employment Service's monthly data has no file for June 2025.
Occupied territories and small coverage
Ukrainian statistics do not cover the temporarily occupied territories. Crimea and Sevastopol are hatched on the map. Almost all of Luhansk oblast is occupied: its figures describe a very small number of enterprises, so we leave it out of the rankings. For Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson and Kharkiv oblasts the data refer only to government-controlled territory.
How the site is updated
Once a month, on the 1st, a program checks whether the sources have published new data. If so, it downloads the files, validates them and recalculates the pages. If a check fails, the site keeps the last correct data and we get a notification. A late source is shown as late, not as zero.
Before publication we check that our calculations match the published numbers. For example, the average salary for February, April, May, June and July 2026 in our database exactly matches the numbers Derzhstat published for those months.
Revisions
Derzhstat and the Employment Service sometimes revise past data. We keep every version we downloaded, so any change can be traced.