Ranking of Russian regions according to the share of highly paid workers.
Chukotka and the Magdan region topped the ranking of Russian regions in terms of the share of highly paid workers. The study was prepared by RIA Novosti experts based on salary data for the period from September 2025 to August 2026.
In Chukotka, 42% of workers receive more than 200 thousand rubles a month. In the Magdan region - 28.4%, and in the Yamalo-Nantes region - 25.2%. The top five also included Moscow (24.4%) and the Autonomous Okrug of Nantes (17.6%). The first ten are dominated by the regions of the North and the Far East.
On average across the country, 7.5% of employees receive a salary above 200 thousand rubles. At the same time, in eight regions the share of such workers does not reach 1%. Among them are Kalmykia, Ingushetia and Chechnya - 0.7% each, Kabardino-Balkaria (0.8%) and North Ossetia (0.9%).
In those regions, the share of workers with a salary of less than 45 thousand rubles is significantly higher. For example, in Ingushetia there are 72% of such workers, in Chechnya - 70%, in Dagestan - 62%. At the other pole are the northern territories and the far east: in the Magdan region only 0.8% of the workers receive a salary below 45 thousand.
For comparison: the range of typical salaries in Chukotka is between 122 and 293 thousand rubles, in Moscow - from 80 to 194 thousand, and in St. Petersburg - between 60 and 130 thousand rubles.