KYIV, May 30 - Real wages in Ukraine increased by 12.5% on the year in April and 0.4% from March, the State Statistics Service reported.

The average nominal wage of full-day workers in April 2018 compared to March 2018 increased by 1.2%, in annual terms rose by 27.3%, amounting to UAH 8,382, whereas in March it was UAH 8,382, February UAH 7,828, January some UAH 7,711.

According to the statistics, the largest increase in the average salary of full-day workers in April 2018 compared with April 2017 was observed in Zaporizhia (32.7%), Vinnytsia (31.9%), Dnipropetrovsk (31.7%), Kyiv (30.1%), Zakarpattia (29.3%), Poltava (29.1%), Zhytomyr (27.7%), Volyn and Lviv (27.3%), Cherkasy (27.1%), Chernivtsi (23.9%), Sumy (25.9%), Ternopil (26.1%), Kirovohrad and Rivne (25.1%) regions and Kyiv city (21.9%).