Are the people of Vilnius jealous of the salaries of Go Vilnius management? – Respublika.lt

Such information has been shared by netizens for some time. Aleksandras Nemunaitis, a member of the Vilnius City Municipality Council, was the first to make it public. The politician wonders how the capital’s budget is being wasted. The salary of the manager of “Go Vilnius” is impressive. For a job where you basically bear no responsibility, where there are no clearly measured goals. For a job where you simply have to have the support of the government,” he says.

Salary – 9804 euros

In the information he shared about the wages of Go Vilnius employees, it can be seen that the salary of the head of the institution, Dovilė Aleksandravičienė, is 9,804 euros before taxes this year and is 900 euros higher than last year. Some of the working people in Lithuania do not even earn that 900 euros, what to talk about such an increase.

The department heads of the “Go Vilnius” department earn 4,960 euros before taxes, but for some reason it is less than last year, when their salaries amounted to 5,074 euros. There are nine such employees in the organization. Another six senior project managers receive a salary of 3,432 euros each, 34 project managers – 2,697 each. euros, and 6 information specialists – 1,549 euros each before taxes.Thus, the salaries of all 56 employees require a total of more than 22,000 euros each month.

The mayor and the prime minister can be jealous

As stated on the website of the institution itself, Go Vilnius is the official development agency of the city of Vilnius, which provides all the necessary information about the city to visitors, investors, visiting employees, entrepreneurs and companies. It is interesting that the salary of the head of this agency is even higher than that of the mayor of the city. Benkunska’s salary this year amounts to 6,249 euros before taxes, which is more than last year, when it was 4,759 euros.

It can be mentioned that the head of “Go Vilnius” earns even more than the members of the Seimas, whose salaries exceed 2,000 euros “in their hands”. Ministers, whose salaries do not reach 5000, and Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė also earn less than the head of a municipal institution. Her salary is a few euros more than 6,000 euros before taxes.

The salary of the head of “Go Vilnius” is indeed very similar to that received by the head of our country Gitanas Nausėda. This year it is 10 thousand 230 euros before taxes.

Not only the politicians of our country, but also many employees of other municipal companies would look with envy at the salary of the head of Go Vilnius. For example, heads of the Vilnius Public Health Office receive 4,027 euros before taxes, while their deputies earn three times less than Go Vilnius. ” director – 2737 euros each.

Even the management of the Control and Audit Service of Vilnius City Municipality earns twice less than the director of Go Vilnius. Here, the manager’s salary at the end of last year was 4,819 euros. Although the salary in 2022 exceeded 5,000 euros.

The managers of the municipal company “Vilniaus būstas” also do not reach the heights of salaries of the Vilnius advertising agency. They receive salaries of 4,024 euros, which has risen by almost 600 euros since last year. Higher-level specialists earn almost 2,500 euros before taxes.

The salaries of teachers and doctors are several times lower

It is probably already clear to everyone that creating embarrassing advertisements about Vilnius is much more profitable than working in educational institutions. For example, the deputy directors of Vilnius Lyceum receive 3,948 euros before taxes this year for education. The manager’s salary is not made public because he is the only person holding such a position and he would have to give his consent for this information to be made public. Lyceum teachers earn 2,146 euros before taxes. Deputy directors of Vilnius Gabija Gymnasium earn 3,016 euros each before taxes, and teachers – 2,140 euros before taxes. And here, pedagogues at the Vilnius Verkių school-multifunctional center working with disabled children earn 2136 euros before taxes.

The management of “Go Vilnius” can be envious even of the doctors who save the lives of Vilnius residents. They also earn much less. Loreta Strum, a doctor living in Norway, shared the salary figures of the Vilnius City Clinical Hospital. They show that the salaries of doctors here last year amounted to 3,677 euros, and nursing staff – 2045 euros before taxes.The doctor is surprised by this situation.

“Both the Vilnius Clinical Hospital in Antakalny (I had to work there during my studies in order to get a scholarship) and the company called “Go Vilnius” are companies belonging to the Vilnius City Municipality. I simply compared the salaries of the people working in these two city-owned institutions.

Draw your own conclusions.

First of all, stop blaming doctors and other medical professionals for leaving the country – what are they to do in a country whose residents like it when the government constantly mocks them? (…) With such a society and such a government, Lithuania will not exist at all in a few decades,” she wrote.