The largest employers in Russia

2022: The rating of the 50 largest employers in Russia was released

At the end of December 2023, Forbes magazine released its first rating of the largest employers in Russia. It included the companies with the most employees as of the end of 2022.

The leader of the rating was Russian Railways (Russian Railways): by the end of 2022, the company's staff reached 701 thousand people, while in 2009 more than 1 million people worked in the company. The top 5 also includes Gazprom (492.2 thousand), Magnit (361 thousand), X5 Group ( 344.7 thousand) and Rosneft (336.2 thousand).

The top ten also included Rosatom"," Russian Post"," "," "Rosseti and Sberbank ". " Roskosmos In addition, the rating includes VTB"," Lukoil"," MTS"," Ozon"," "" and Tinkoff"."AvtoVAZ

The publication recorded the largest increase in the number of personnel at Rosatom, which in 2022 increased it by 40 thousand people due to the consolidation of the energy company's business. " Quadra The largest decrease in the number of employees is in the metallurgical holding, Evraz which in 2022 lost 19 thousand people due to the fact that it legally removed the coal company "" and the Evraz Raspadskaya North America division from management.

According to Forbes, some defense holdings were not included in the rating, since they never disclosed reports, and the number of employees cannot be calculated by the enterprises included in their composition. We are talking, for example, about the United Shipbuilding Corporation, about holdings under the management of the state corporation Rostec, such as: United Engine Corporation, Russian Helicopters and others.

The total number of personnel of 50 companies included in the Forbes rating exceeded 5.98 million people. 20 companies from the rating are state and quasi-state, 30 are owned by private owners.^[1]

2020: Top 10 largest private employers in Russia determined

In September 2020, Forbes magazine published an annual rating of the 200 largest private companies in Russia. Among them, observers identified the 10 largest employers.

The first place in terms of the number of employees among private Russian companies was taken by Magnit, which has 308,432 employees. In the second position is another grocery retailer - X5 Retail Group (307 thousand employees). The leadership of these companies is due to wide chains of stores throughout Russia.

The leading top three was closed by Surgutneftegas (112,795 employees), which, as Forbes notes, has the largest "money pot" among Russian companies - by the end of 2019, almost 3 trillion rubles were in its accounts and deposits, most of the funds - in foreign currency.

Forbes published the top 10 largest private employers in Russia

The following companies were also included in the top 10 largest private employers in the Russian Federation:

• Lukoil, 101,400 people;
• "Red & White," 100,000 people;
• Nornickel, 73,715 people;
• Evraz, 71,223;
• MTS, 69,189 people;
• SUEK, 66,245 people;
• UMMC, 63,581 people.

According to the newspaper, in terms of staff, the largest private employers in Russia are inferior to Gazprom (in 2019, according to the annual report, 473,800 people worked for the gas monopolist) and Rosneft, where the payroll at the end of 2019 amounted to 334,600 people.

Of the 200 largest private companies in Russia, the developer MR Group has the least employees - 300 people. At the same time, the company's revenue in 2019 amounted to 58 billion rubles. At the end of 2019, 343 people worked in the Biblio-Globus tour operator with a revenue of 99 billion rubles. The Independent Oil and Gas Company of the former president of Rosneft Eduard Khudainatov had 433 employees, while NNC took 55th place in the ranking with revenue of 176 billion rubles.^[2]

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