I don't think factoring them in would change very much. Unless we're talking about the top-top of the CPSU hierarchy, the elite (political, scientific, cultural) had better access to housing and the special shops where you could buy Western goods legally, but I don't think your average apparatchik or Soviet physicist was living high on the hog. Certainly nothing like today -- Alla Pugacheva (Russia's Bette Midler) used to pull in maybe $100 a concert. Now she must get $20,000. At the very least.
It is another issue that, because CPSU members were able to travel abroad, they would bring back goods that could be resold on the black market. As a matter of fact, because in the 80s-early 90s coming from the West meant that a good would be superior in people's eyes, you have many Russian companies that were formed back then that have foreign-sounding names, like dairy producer Wimm-Bill-Dann. Soviet producers would sometimes write "Made in the USSR" on their products in English with the assumption that the foreign lettering would be associated with higher quality in the eyes of consumers. This is no longer the case: Now we're back to the old habit of making unpronouncable Russian glob-words: RosBusinessOligarchEvilThievingGreedPromBank and whatnot.
There used to be a joke about apparatchik perks:
It is the year-end meeting of Collective Farm Red October. A meeting has been called of all the workers.
Party Rep: We would like to thank Maria Ivanova for her work this year with the cows. Good work! In recognition of her services, she will receive a vacation in Sochi.
Audience: Ura!
Party Rep: Now, Mikhail Vlashinkov has done excellent work with the chickens this year, and so he will receive a year-end bonus!
Audience: Ura! Bravo Misha!
Party Rep: Finally, Anastasia Shmilankova has had truly impressive success in the area of ideology and the development of discipline among the farmworkers. For her great efforts in this direction, she will be rewarded with a a complete set of the works of Lenin!
Audience: Serves the bitch right!
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