Financial University of the Russian government announced what is happening with salaries in Tula

The Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation estimated the average per capita income of residents of Russian cities for January-September 2026.

Leaders in terms of income growth were three cities with an indicator of 21% - Artem, Yekaterinburg and Bataisk. A little behind Blagoveshchensk and Miass - 20% each. Close the top ten leaders Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Novy Urengoy, Chelyabinsk and Khabarovsk with 19%.

Five cities showed negative dynamics. The worst situation is in Novoshakhtinsk and Prokopyevsk, where revenues decreased by 6%. Three more cities - Mines, Kamyshin and Berdsk - recorded a decline of 1%.

Moscow remains the absolute leader in terms of income - 102 thousand rubles per month per person. It is followed by Khimki and Krasnogorsk (by 101 thousand), Odintsovo and St. Petersburg (by 98 thousand). In the top twenty in terms of absolute income, Yekaterinburg also entered - the only city with a million people in addition to Moscow and St. Petersburg, which fell to the top of the rating (87 thousand rubles, 15th place).

Tula showed a moderate growth in revenues for January-September 2026, and Novomoskovsk was among the outsiders of the rating, we can say that the two cities of the Tula region are moving at a different pace.

The average income per person in Tula amounted to 72 thousand rubles per month for the nine months of 2026 – the 50th place among 170 cities with a population of more than 100 thousand people. The increase to the same period in 2025 is 11%, which is significantly higher than in Moscow (3%) and Penza (4%).

In Novomoskovsk, the average per capita income was only 62 thousand rubles - 121st place in the ranking. The growth compared to last year was only 4%, one of the lowest among all study participants.