Kazakhstan set to generate 240,000 jobs annually
Kazakhstan has unveiled a 2026–2029 comprehensive plan aimed at boosting incomes, raising wages, and generating up to 240,000 new jobs each year, First Vice Minister of National Economy Azamat Amrin said, Qazinform News Agency reports.
He said one of the main reasons behind Kazakhstan’s new comprehensive plan for 2026–2029 is the significant wage gap.
In the first quarter 2026, the gap between average and median wages was 39.2%, reflecting significant inequality across industries and regions.
To solve these issues, the Government suggests increasing minimum wages, raising salaries for civil servants, production staff in natural monopolies, and indexing government pay scales every three years.
If successful, the Government expects up to 240,000 quality jobs annually, to expand practical training and conclude up to 600 agreements with enterprises on dual education, to grant more than 30,000 preferential microloans for rural residents, promote self-employment and small business development as job sources, contain prices of socially important food products and reduce household food spending to 40% by 2029 and raise productivity to 8.2 million tenge per worker by 2029.
The plan aims to ensure income growth outpaces inflation by 2–3%, especially for low- and middle-income workers.
To note, Kazakhstan to launch 8 non-ferrous metallurgy projects in 2026, creating over 1,500 jobs.