Kyiv had the highest salaries — $775 – double the level of Chernihiv, its north eastern neighbor. Chernihiv, had the nation’s lowest — $390. The regions with fastest growing salaries last year were: Ivano-Frankivsk +25.6%; Luhansk +25.2%; Ternopil +23.8%; Chernihiv, Chernivtsi and Sumy +23.4%; Rivne +21.9%; Kirovohrad +20.6%; Lviv +20.2%; Zhytomyr +20.1%, Khmelnytsky +19.4; and Zakarpattia +19.1%.