According to the Social Fund, the average pension of working pensioners in the regions of Russia differs by more than two times. As of October 1, the payment in Chukotka was 39,732 rubles, in Dagestan - 17,618 rubles. The gap reached 22,114 rubles. On average throughout the country, working pensioners received about 24 thousand rubles, non-working pensioners - 25.9 thousand.
High payments are also typical of other Northern Territories. Working pensioners in the Nantes Autonomous Okrug received an average of 36,133 rubles, in the Magdan region - 35,065 rubles. The size of the payments is affected by regional coefficients, experience in the north and the profits from which insurance premiums were paid.
With the required length of service, the fixed part of the insurance allowance increases by 50% for work in the far north and by 30% in parallel areas. Increased payments help to compensate for the expensive life in the north, so the nominal difference still does not show how different the pensioners' real ability to pay for goods and services is.