The expert assessed the scale of salary delays for shift workers

At the end of October 2025, overdue salary arrears in Russia amounted to 2.156 billion rubles, and 46% of debtors were companies from the field where shift workers work most often, the general director of the job search and hiring service told Izvestia. GdeRabota.ru Ekaterina Agaeva.

"46% of the debtors are companies from the field of mining and manufacturing. It is there that shift workers most often work," Ekaterina Agayeva said.

According to her, in the last months of 2025, Russians were 60% more likely to complain about salary delays than the year before. According to Rosstat, at the end of October 2025, overdue salary arrears amounted to 2.156 billion rubles. A year earlier, this amount was 729 million rubles.

The expert estimates the number of shift workers at about 1.7 million people, which is more than teachers in schools. At the same time, it is very difficult to track the exact number: someone works under civil law contracts, someone unofficially.

"Over the past month, companies have published 85.2 thousand offers for shift work. The number of active vacancies does not indicate the actual number of people employed on shift, but confirms the high demand for personnel," Agayeva notes.

For more information about the problems of shift workers in Russia, see the Izvestia article.

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