{"id":211053,"date":"2026-11-09T15:49:05","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T12:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/longreads\/211053\/"},"modified":"2026-11-09T15:49:07","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T12:49:07","slug":"lukasenkas-30-years-of-wage-targets-some-promises-fulfill-themselves","status":"publish","type":"longreads","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/longreads\/211053\/","title":{"rendered":"\u0141uka\u0161enka\u2019s 30 years of wage targets: some promises fulfill themselves"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka said on October 30 that he would no longer set wage targets for the government now that his much-touted $500 mark had been reached. Instead, he said, the government would focus on price controls. It took much longer than expected to achieve his earlier targets, which ranged from $100 to $1,000 a month.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"block-image block-image-normal\">\n\n    <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"615\" height=\"410\" src=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/dollary_rubli_myfin_by-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/dollary_rubli_myfin_by-1.jpg 615w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/dollary_rubli_myfin_by-1-354x236.jpg 354w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/dollary_rubli_myfin_by-1-178x118.jpg 178w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/>\n    <figcaption>\n        \n                    <div class=\"block-image__author\">\n                                <span>(minfin.by)<\/span>\n            <\/div>\n            <\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Throughout his more than 30 years in power, the Belarusian leader regularly set salary targets in US dollars in his annual addresses to parliament and at other public gatherings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Long road to $500<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>As early as 2000, \u0141uka\u0161enka promised to raise the average salary in Belarus to $100. In 2001, the target had risen to $250, to be reached by 2005. But the most ambitious goals were announced in 2004. In September that year, the Belarusian leader spoke of the possibility of reaching $750 by 2010. Just two weeks later, however, during a visit to H\u0142ybokaje, Viciebsk region, he backtracked and set a new target that would later become famous: \u201cAnd in the next five-year period, come hell or high water, we will reach an average salary of $500.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The figure has remained firmly embedded in public discourse ever since. Higher targets were also announced from time to time. In 2008, officials discussed $700 and the possibility of approaching $1,000. In December 2010, the $1,000 mark became the target for the next five-year period. \u201cBy 2015, we must bring salaries close to the equivalent of $1,000,\u201d \u0141uka\u0161enka announced at the All-Belarusian People&#8217;s Assembly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Soon afterwards, the 2011 currency depreciation forced him to revise the target downward to $500. The figure was mentioned repeatedly in speeches in the following years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the upper limit of his promises has remained unchanged for the past decade and a half: the government included an average monthly salary of $1,000 as a target in the 2026\u20132030 program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His recent refusal to make new salary promises marks the end of an era in political rhetoric, when a specific income figure served as a measure of economic success.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"flourish-embed flourish-scatter\" data-src=\"visualisation\/30853427\"><script src=\"https:\/\/public.flourish.studio\/resources\/embed.js\"><\/script><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/public.flourish.studio\/visualisation\/30853427\/thumbnail\" width=\"100%\" alt=\"scatter visualization\" \/><\/noscript><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How far did the promises outstrip economic reality?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the most interesting questions is not how much was promised, but how far the announced figures exceeded actual earnings at the time. Here, a clear difference emerges between the early 2000s and today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2001, the average monthly salary was about $90, making the $250 target 2.8 times higher. The promises made in 2004 were even more striking. With the average salary at about $162 at the time of the promise, the promised $500 was more than three times the actual figure, while $750 was 4.6 times higher. In other words, earnings were rising, but salary ambitions were growing even faster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over time, however, the gap between the targets and actual earnings gradually narrowed. In 2025, the average monthly salary rose to $877. Accordingly, the new target of $1,000 exceeded the actual figure by just 14 percent. Thus, over a quarter of a century, not only has the Belarusian rubel lost value, but the authorities&#8217; salary promises have also been devalued.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"flourish-embed flourish-chart\" data-src=\"visualisation\/30853495\"><script src=\"https:\/\/public.flourish.studio\/resources\/embed.js\"><\/script><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/public.flourish.studio\/visualisation\/30853495\/thumbnail\" width=\"100%\" alt=\"chart visualization\" \/><\/noscript><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A promise made is a debt unpaid?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The ambition of the targets is only one side of the story. The other is how long it took to achieve them. To compare the promises with actual results, let us look at how many years passed after each announcement before the average annual salary first reached the specified dollar amount.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It took the government two years to reach the first target, $100, announced in 2000. Belarus reached the $250 promised in 2001 in 2006. The much-advertized $500 target proved considerably more difficult. In December 2010, the average monthly salary did briefly exceed that level. However, the annual average was about $407. The annual average first topped $500 only in 2013, nine years after the famous 2004 announcement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moreover, Belarus failed to maintain that level. Following the currency turmoil of 2014\u20132015, the dollar equivalent of salaries fell again. In 2016, the average monthly salary dropped to $361, and it took several more years for the $500 mark to be consistently exceeded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The story of the $750 target, which \u0141uka\u0161enka had set for 2010, is even more telling. The average annual salary first exceeded that amount only in 2025, 21 years after the announcement and 15 years later than originally planned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, the $1,000 target that \u0141uka\u0161enka announced in 2010 for 2015 had still not been reached in annual average terms by the end of 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the past decades, earnings in Belarus have indeed increased substantially. However, the history of salary promises shows that reaching the milestones announced by the authorities often took many years, while the gains proved vulnerable to economic and political crises.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"flourish-embed flourish-chart\" data-src=\"visualisation\/30853657\"><script src=\"https:\/\/public.flourish.studio\/resources\/embed.js\"><\/script><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/public.flourish.studio\/visualisation\/30853657\/thumbnail\" width=\"100%\" alt=\"chart visualization\" \/><\/noscript><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">$500 is not what it used to be<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>There is another important aspect that often goes overlooked: over the decades, not only have Belarusians&#8217; earnings changed, but so has the purchasing power of the dollar itself. After all, $500 in the mid-2000s and the same amount today are far from equivalent. Inflation in the United States has eroded the value of the dollar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2010, $500 had approximately the same purchasing power as $448 in 2005. By 2020, the equivalent had fallen to $377, and by September 2026, to about $290.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thus, over two decades, $500 lost about 42 percent of its original purchasing power. Conversely, to have the equivalent of $500 in 2005 in the fall of 2026, one would need about $863.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"flourish-embed flourish-chart\" data-src=\"visualisation\/30853698\"><script src=\"https:\/\/public.flourish.studio\/resources\/embed.js\"><\/script><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/public.flourish.studio\/visualisation\/30853698\/thumbnail\" width=\"100%\" alt=\"chart visualization\" \/><\/noscript><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This leads to another interesting observation: if you stay in power long enough and keep promising the same amount, the economy may eventually reach that target even without impressive growth. Over time, not only does the ambition behind the original promise diminish, but so does the real value of the amount itself. It turns out that dollar inflation can also help the authorities partially deliver on their long-standing salary promises. The main thing is to wait long enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Salaries have risen. But what counts as success now?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, one of the most revealing ways to assess the history of the famous $500 target is to compare Belarus with its neighbors. When \u0141uka\u0161enka promised in 2004 to raise the average salary to $500, this was not merely a round number chosen for effect. It was a benchmark intended to bring Belarus closer to regional income levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the time, the average take-home salary in Poland was about $428, compared with $301 in Lithuania, $203 in Russia and just $146 in Belarus. In other words, the $500 target was ambitious even by the standards of neighboring countries.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"flourish-embed flourish-chart\" data-src=\"visualisation\/30853727\"><script src=\"https:\/\/public.flourish.studio\/resources\/embed.js\"><\/script><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/public.flourish.studio\/visualisation\/30853727\/thumbnail\" width=\"100%\" alt=\"chart visualization\" \/><\/noscript><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Twenty-two years later, Belarus has not only surpassed the historic $500 milestone, but its average nominal monthly salary before taxes has occasionally exceeded the equivalent of $1,000. However, earnings have risen much faster in neighboring countries. In the second quarter of 2026, the average monthly take-home salary was about $922 in Belarus, $1,855 in Lithuania, $1,813 in Poland and $1,301 in Russia. During this period, Lithuania had almost caught up with Poland. Russia, meanwhile, has experienced periods of rapid growth in rubel wages, currency depreciation and subsequent recoveries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although the famous $500 target has long ceased to be unattainable, Belarus remains among the countries with the lowest average salaries in the region. Its gap with many of its neighbors remains substantial, much as it was before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the past decades, neighboring countries have not only increased earnings but also narrowed the gap with Europe&#8217;s leading economies. Against this backdrop, the suggestion that Belarusians should now take responsibility for increasing their own incomes sounds almost like a line from a monologue by Russian satirist Mikhail Zhvanetsky: \u201cGive it a try, give it a try. Who knows, maybe you won&#8217;t succeed either.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"insert-block\">\n\n    <div class=\"insert-block__img\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/pustyje_karmany_freepik_1128x752-300x200.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/pustyje_karmany_freepik_1128x752-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/pustyje_karmany_freepik_1128x752-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/pustyje_karmany_freepik_1128x752-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/pustyje_karmany_freepik_1128x752.jpg 1128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>                        <label class=\"insert-block__tag--mobile\"> Economy<\/label>\n\n                            <label class=\"insert-block__tag--mobile\"> Society<\/label>\n\n                            <label class=\"insert-block__tag--mobile\"> The Viewer<\/label>\n\n                <\/div>\n    <div class=\"insert-block__text\">\n                    <label class=\"insert-block__tag\">Economy, Society, The Viewer<\/label>\n                <h3 class=\"insert-block__title\">Poverty: Lithuania calls to action, Belarus makes numbers shine<\/h3>\n        <div class=\"insert-block__descr\">Belarus\u2019 state-run media have been discussing poverty in Lithuania, citing selected numbers that emphasize poverty risks while concealing indicators that might lead people to think that Lithuanians are better off than Belarusians. 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