Murmansk region entered the top 10 regions in terms of the share of workers with a salary of 200 thousand

Murmansk region took the tenth place in the ranking of Russian regions by the share of residents with a salary above 200 thousand rubles per month. This income is received by 11.3% of employees. The study was prepared by RIA Novosti experts on the basis of official statistics.

To compile the rating, analysts studied salaries for the period from September 2025 to August 2026. Employees of organizations with an income of more than 200 thousand rubles and less than 45 thousand rubles per month were taken into account, as well as the range of the most common salaries.

On average in Russia, the share of workers with a salary above 200 thousand rubles was 7.5%. In the Murmansk region, the figure was significantly higher - 11.3%.

At the same time, the region became one of the subjects with the lowest proportion of low-paid workers. Salary less than 45 thousand rubles receive 1.8% of employees. According to this indicator, Murmansk region took the third place among the regions with the lowest share of such workers.

The top three in terms of the share of high salaries included the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug (42%), the Magadan Region (28.4%) and the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (25.2%). Moscow took fourth place with an indicator of 24.4%.

Earlier, “MK in Murmansk” reported that the Murmansk region was in the top 5 regions in terms of mortgage availability.