State-owned PrivatBank pays board member USD 62,000 per month - his salary has increased 6 times during war
Top managers of 5 state-owned banks usually do not disclose their salaries, and the law, unlike the NBU employees, does not oblige them to submit annual declarations. At the same time, the real salary of one of the board members of a state-owned bank became known thanks to the annual declarations of his wife, an employee of the National Bank of Ukraine.
We are talking about Anton Razumnyi, a member of the PrivatBank's board. He is in charge of compliance (monitoring the bank's compliance with industry and ethical standards) and primary financial monitoring (simply put, it is his subordinates who block customer accounts at the slightest suspicion of abuse and atypical transactions). He reports directly to the Chairman of the Board.
And the manager's salary was reflected in the annual declaration for 2025 of his wife - a middle manager in the department for managing corporate pension funds of the National Bank of Ukraine Inna Razumna.
In 2025, Anton Razumnyi's salary alone made up UAH 30.5 million. That is an average of UAH 2.54 million or USD 62,000 per month at the 2025 exchange rate.
The PrivatBank's board member received another UAH 3.8 million as "corporate insurance", as well as small amounts in the form of interest, health insurance and a gift worth UAH 1,700.
As of 2022 (when the full-scale invasion of the aggressor country took place), Anton Razumnyi's salary in the same bank in the same position was only UAH 5.3 million per year. This amounted to an average of UAH 442,000 or USD 12,300 (at the exchange rate of 2022) per month.
At the same time, no additional accruals in the form of "corporate insurance" were declared that year.
That is, during the full-scale war, the salary of the member of the board of the state-owned bank increased 6 times.
In 2023, Anton Razumnyi's salary increased to UAH 8.6 million, and in 2024 - to UAH 9.9 million.
Earlier, the most resonantly known in the public sector was the salary of Ukrposhta CEO Ihor Smilianskyi, who declared UAH 11.7 million in 2025.
In January-February 2026, Ukrainian banks received UAH 17.8 billion in profits, and in 2025 reported a 22% increase in profits, receiving a record UAH 126.8 billion in annual terms.
According to media reports, in 2025, state-owned banks remained the basis of profitability, providing 63% of net profit. 22.9% of the banking system's profit (UAH 29.1 billion) was provided by PrivatBank.