Welders have been the leaders in salary growth in Russia since the beginning of 2026

Welders, installers, and development team leaders topped the ranking of specialists with the most notable increase in proposed salaries in the first quarter of 2026. This was reported on April 2 by RIA Novosti with reference to the results of the labor market analysis conducted by the service. hh.ru .

"The most noticeable increase in the salary offered occurred among welders (the difference in absolute values was 148.1 thousand rubles), installers (+64.7 thousand rubles), heads of development teams (+58 thousand rubles), geologists (+49.9 thousand rubles) and technical writers (+40.7 thousand rubles)," the report says. the conclusions of the study.

In addition, electricians, couriers, chief physicians and department heads, real estate agents, and network engineers have seen a significant increase in the salaries offered.

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The employees with the highest salary, as it became known on the same day, were employees of the air and space transport sector. They received a record 230.8 thousand rubles at the beginning of the year.

Olga Lebedinskaya, Associate Professor of Statistics at the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, said that on average in 2025, the average accrued salary of Russians was 100,359.7 rubles per month. She noted that in 2024, this salary was about 88 thousand rubles.

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