The draft law sets out monthly supplements tied to official salary, with the size of the payment depending on the position held. Verstka and TV Rain were the first to report on the document.
Court chairmen would receive between 50% and 200% of their salary, while their deputies, the chairmen of judicial panels and compositions, and other judges would get between 40% and 100%. Justices of the peace would receive a supplement of 37%.
Assistants to court chairmen and their deputies are allocated a supplement of 45% of salary, while assistants to judges and court session secretaries would receive 40%.
According to media reports, the additional spending would amount to 16.6 billion rubles a year: 8.5 billion for judges and 8.1 billion for court staff. To finance the payments, the bill proposes redirecting revenues from state fees for the consideration of cases by federal courts of general jurisdiction from municipal budgets to the federal budget.
The authors of the draft law attribute the need for the supplements to the insignificant indexation of judges' salaries over the past five years, as well as low pay and high staff turnover in court apparatuses. The explanatory note cited by TV Rain states that the current level of judges' remuneration does not correspond to their status, the tasks they perform in administering justice, and the degree of responsibility placed on them.
If the draft law is adopted in the proposed wording, the new payments would be introduced from January 1, 2027.