Nearly 3 million hryvnias in pension per year: a retired judge receives the largest payout in Ukraine

The average pension in Ukraine is about 7,236 UAH per month

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15 Jun 2026

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More than 900 current members of parliament and judges in Ukraine receive pension payments. According to declarations for 2025, the largest pension among parliamentarians reached 2.3 million hryvnias per year, while among judges — nearly 3 million hryvnias.

This is reported by Opendatabot.

According to analysts, 913 current MPs and judges listed pensions in their declarations. That is 14% of the total number of officials who submitted annual declarations for last year.

For comparison: the average pension in Ukraine currently amounts to about 7,236 hryvnias per month. That is approximately 85,000 hryvnias per year.

The largest pension among deputies was declared by Vasyl Nimchenko, who previously served as a judge of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine. For 2025 he received 2.3 million hryvnias in pension payments — over 192 thousand hryvnias per month.

In second place among parliamentarians is MP and lawyer Mykhailo Novikov. His pension amounted to 1.46 million hryvnias per year, or almost 122 thousand hryvnias per month. In the past he also worked as a judge and holds the title of Honored Lawyer of Ukraine.

Third was a long-serving People’s Deputy from “Batkivshchyna”, Lieutenant General Andriy Kozhemyakin. His pension payments for 2025 amounted to 973 thousand hryvnias per year — over 81 thousand hryvnias per month.

However, as the declarations data show, deputies’ pension records are outpaced by the payments of some judges.

The absolute record-holder was retired Supreme Court judge Viktor Shkolyarov. Last year he declared almost 3 million hryvnias in pension. On average this is 249.9 thousand hryvnias per month.

Second among judges was also a retired Supreme Court judge Tetiana Zhayvoronok. Her pension for 2025 amounted to 2.85 million hryvnias, or 237.6 thousand hryvnias per month.

Third in the ranking was Stepan Domuschi — a judge of the Fifth Administrative Court of Appeal, who retired in 2025 after 21 years of service. His pension amounted to 2.72 million hryvnias per year — over 226 thousand hryvnias per month.

Also among the top five judges with the largest pensions were Andriy Hryhorov with payments of 213.9 thousand hryvnias per month and Sergiy Holovaty — 202.5 thousand hryvnias per month.

At the same time the median pension in both groups is almost the same. Among deputies it is 229.6 thousand hryvnias per year, and among judges — 227.1 thousand hryvnias per year. This means that half of the recipients in each of these groups declare larger amounts, and half — smaller.

The study emphasizes: although special pensions for People’s Deputies were abolished for new recipients, some current parliamentarians continue to receive high payments. These are those who acquired the right to a special pension before the pension reform, preserved it through court decisions, or hold additional titles.

Against the backdrop of war, constant budget needs, levies for the army and low payments for most pensioners, such figures look especially painful. For an ordinary Ukrainian pensioner the average annual pension is about 85,000 hryvnias.

In fact, one month of the pension of the record-holder among judges equals approximately 34–35 average pensions of ordinary Ukrainians. And it is this gap that again raises the question: how fair is a pension system in which former high-ranking officials receive hundreds of thousands of hryvnias each month, while most elderly people are forced to count every hryvnia.