Relocated Belarusian IT workers earn more than Lithuanians – investment promotion agency

December 19, BPN. Lithuania has benefited from the relocation of Belarusian IT professionals by collecting more income taxes, Elijus Čivilis of Invest Lithuania told the LRT radio station.

The average salary of newly arrived IT workers is 2.7 times higher (reaching up to €4.900) than the official average salary of Lithuanians (about €1.799), he noted.

A record number of Belarusian IT companies relocated their staff to Lithuania in 2022. EPAM Systems expanded its local office from 320 to 1,500 employees; Wargaming, from 400 to 1,000.

This year’s relocation involved mainly companies that wanted to leave Belarus for good and cut all their ties to the country, Delfi reported quoting Čivilis.

The Belarusian IT sector’s decline accelerated to 10 percent year on year in the period from January to November, the Eurasian Development Bank (EDB) said in its recent weekly macroeconomic report.