Experts note that in 2025, wage growth in Kazakhstan is still lagging behind GDP growth, which indicates potential for future increases in income levels. According to analysts at Halyk Finance, the country’s GDP grew by 6% in the first quarter of the year, while wages rose by only 1.2%. This is a weaker result compared to the same period last year, when incomes grew by 2.1%. The report highlights that the telecommunications sector showed the strongest wage growth, with average salaries rising by 20%, whereas in industry, the increase was just 4.4%, and in some sectors wages even declined. The sharpest drop was recorded in administrative and support services. Data from the Bureau of National Statistics show that by the end of the first quarter of 2025, the average monthly salary in Kazakhstan exceeded 423,000 tenge, which is 10% higher than in the same period a year earlier. Meanwhile, the median salary stood at 300,300 tenge.