According to research DEA NewsIn the fourth quarter of last year, the unemployment rate in Russia was recorded at 3.7%, with the lowest level recorded in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug and Kamchatka Region, and the highest in Ingushetia.
During this period, unemployment decreased in 76 regions of the Russian Federation, increased in six.
Experts noted that in 2022, against the background of the contraction of jobs in foreign companies, a significant deterioration in the situation in the labor market can be expected, but this does not happen.
As a result of last year, the unemployment rate fell to a historic low.
It was previously known that assignment Russian President Vladimir Putin will comply with the increase in wages, the minimum wage (minimum wage) level will be indexed by an additional 10%. The Prime Minister announced that the minimum wage will be indexed by 18.5% in general. , and the figure will be 19,242 rubles.
Putin proposed to index the minimum wage by 18.5% to 19,242 rubles from January 1, 2024. during his message to the Bundestag the previous day.
In the second half of January, the President of Russia gave the order to raise the minimum wage above the inflation rate by 2023. Prior to that, Rosstat reported that inflation in Russia was 11.94% in 2022, after inflation of 8.39% in 2021, 4.9% in 2020 and 3.0% in 2019.