Five regions of the Far Eastern Federal District entered the top ten in terms of the share of workers with salaries over 200 thousand.
In Chukotka, 42% of employees receive a salary of more than 200 thousand rubles, and the district leads the RIA ranking in terms of the share of highly paid employees since 2019.
The national average is 7.5%.
In Chukotka and the Magdan region, the share of such workers exceeds 25%. Typical salaries in Chukotka range from 122,000 to 293,000 rubles, and in the Magdan region only 0.8% of workers receive less than 45,000, which is the minimum in the country.
In Sakhalin, Kamchatka and Kyiv receive salaries over 200 thousand 14.6% to 16.6% of the workers, which earned the regions places from the sixth to the eighth. In Kamchatka, the share of low-wage workers is only 1%.
In the Amur Region, Khabarovsk and Transbaikal Territories, the Jewish Autonomous Region and Primorye, the share of highly paid workers is close to the Russian average and ranges from 6.3 to 7.9%. From 16.5 to 23.7% of workers in these regions receive less than 45 thousand rubles.
In Buryatia, 3.5% of workers receive a salary above 200 thousand, and typical salaries range from 44 to 97 thousand rubles.
Of the 15 regions where the share of highly paid workers exceeds the national average, seven are in the Far East.
The ranking, as the authors note, is based on net salaries from September 2025 to August 2026.