From January to May 2025, the average nominal monthly salary in Armenia was 294,009 drams, 5.1% higher than the same period last year.
The government considers this salary sufficient to ensure a normal standard of living for citizens. KP members never miss an opportunity to claim that under their rule, people have begun to receive normal salaries and live relatively well. But interestingly, KP members’ families themselves complain about the salaries of government officials, implying that they are barely “making ends meet.”
A few days ago, Petros Ghazaryan, the husband of the Minister of Education and Science, invited Hayk Konjoryan, a KP MP and the head of the KP faction, to an interview. During the discussion, they also touched on the thefts that had occurred in previous years, the property of Levon Mkrtchyan, one of the former Communist Party ministers, and the amount of money confiscated from him by the prosecutor’s office. And Petros Ghazaryan, “taunting” Konjoryan, said, “I’ll bury the master of fortune. We also have a minister of education, and we deduct his salary from our own salary (referring to the salary of his wife, Zhanna Andreasyan, and their living expenses).”
Ghazaryan, citing the Dashnaktsutyun as an example, and Hayk Konjoryan, inspired by his example, seem dissatisfied with their incomes, which are tens of times higher than the average salary of an ordinary citizen of the Republic of Armenia.
Nevertheless, we decided to check how much Petros Ghazaryan and his minister wife earn, who can barely deduct their salary from their own. Thus, from the tax return filed by Zhanna Andreasyan in 2025, it becomes clear that her income in 2024 was 51 million 451 thousand drams, of which 21 million 451 thousand drams was her salary from the ministry. This means the minister’s monthly income was over 1 million 787 thousand drams. Petros Ghazaryan’s annual income in 2024 was 44 million 904 thousand drams.
It should be noted that the public couple has not yet filed their tax return for 2025, but we do not believe that the Ghazaryan-Andreasyan family’s income has decreased so much in one year that they are now barely making ends meet. Incidentally, considering that the declaration they filed was for 2024, and the average salary at that time was 5.1% lower at 294,009 drams, it turns out that their spending was far more extravagant than that of a citizen with the average statistical salary.
And here a simple human question arises: if they somehow manage to survive until next month on such an income, what will the average citizen say?