According to the Monitoring of the social status and behavior of the population (survey of June 2022), the proportion of employed and unemployed respondents has not changed compared to March of this year. A large part of the population continues to work in the same mode and with the same wages,...

Since the beginning of 2014, wage arrears has been growing. In nominal terms, in 2016, according to Rosstat, it was 1.5 times higher than that in 2014. However, in absolute terms, the debt stays rather low and not comparable to the situation of the 1990s

If real wages continue to follow the ongoing trend, it would take three years for compensation of employees in the Russian economy to return to what it was prior to crisis. An analysis shows that wages have been hit hardest in state-financed sectors and in construction. In 2010–2014, wages...