The average salary of a taxi driver in Russia at the end of 2023 increased by 23% compared to the previous year, reaching 107 thousand rubles. In this respect reports TASS regarding online recruitment hh.ru.
“The average salary offered to taxi drivers in 2023 was 107,300 rubles; This is 23% more than in 2022. “Every second vacancy shows that it is expected to be carried out under a civil law agreement,” he says.
Taxi drivers receive the highest salary in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug – 150 thousand rubles. The demand for taxi drivers in Russia increased by 21% in 2023 compared to 2022.
Before that, head of the Public Council for Taxi Development Irina Zaripova statedHe said that to combat the shortage of taxi drivers in Russia, immigrants should be employed in this job. According to him, immigrants’ permits to work in taxis should be temporary, and to ensure road safety, such drivers may be required to pass additional exams in the traffic police.
Today, immigrants from countries where Russian is the state language (Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan) can work in taxis.
It also became known that the State Duma Transport Committee. approved A bill proposing to give Russia’s constituent entities the right to determine the minimum level of localization of cars used as taxis.
Previously reportedHe said that in Lyubertsy, a North Caucasian taxi driver started shooting from behind a closed barrier.