Mayor Andryj Sadovyj’s average monthly salary comes to $3,200. Three of his deputies earn over $2,500. First deputy mayor, Oleh Synuitka, earns $3,000 a month, deputy mayor for construction and infrastructure Mykola Oduha - $2,800, deputy mayor for humanitarian issues Vasyl Kosiv - $2,600. In total, the mayor costs taxpayers almost $40,000 in salary, the first deputy mayor $36,000, and other deputies - $30,000.

These figures are a far cry from the official salaries of top mayoral officials which, for instance, is $500 a month for a mayor. Now, the big question is how the mayor managed to increase his monthly income to the impressive $3,200?

There are several ways. One of them is additional payments for seniority (20%), for intense work (50%), for knowing foreign languages (10%). According to The Gazeta po-lvivsky, Mayor Sadovyj is fluent in Russian and Polish.

However, the most glaring way of raising official salaries is bonuses. Ironically, bonuses to himself and his deputies and cronies are set by the mayor.

Thus, a 600-percent bonus (or 6-time high salary) was paid to a Euro-2012 consultant from Kyiv Oleh Zasadny, Oleh Ishchuk from Lutsk, mayor’s office information department head Ostap Protsyk, Oleh Berezuik and Marta Lytvyniuk, head of legal department Halyna Piontkevych and Andrij Sydir.

Such fat bonuses and extra payments have angered many deputies and rank-and-file officials. The more so that, under the law, a civil servant’s bonus cannot exceed 400 percent of his monthly salary.