On August 28, the RIA Rating agency published a rating of regions by labor market. The bottom positions in the list were occupied by Ingushetia, Chechnya, Kabardino-Balkaria and North Ossetia. The rating was calculated based on Rosstat data on salaries, working conditions, employment and labor market capacity in 2022.
The leaders, as in the year before last, are Moscow (97.9 points out of 100 possible) and St. Petersburg (95.2). Next come the Moscow region, Krasnoyarsk Krai, and Tatarstan.
In the North Caucasus, Stavropol has the highest score - 60.6; the region ranks 45th in the all-Russian rating. Ingushetia is in last place in Russia, scoring 6.4 points, and this figure has decreased - in 2021 it was 7.1. The situation is slightly better in the Chechen Republic - 12.1 points, 84th place. The top five anti-leaders also include the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (13.7) and North Ossetia (14.1). Dagestan ranks 80th (17.1), Karachay-Cherkessia - 79th (18.5). According to experts, the key problems of these regions in the labor market are low wages and unemployment, which significantly exceeds the Russian average. Meanwhile, according to RIA Rating data published in April, in 2022 Dagestan became the leader in absolute growth in the number of employed. Over the past year, the number of employed Dagestanis increased by 92.5 thousand, or 8%. Despite this, the unemployment rate in the republic still remains one of the highest in Russia - 12.2% at the end of 2022. The top ten in terms of absolute growth in the number of workers also included Bashkortostan, Chechnya, Moscow Region and Stavropol Krai.