In the outgoing year 2017. Russians began to work more, but their incomes at best remained the same, and in the worst decreased by several thousand rubles. Relevant data are given in the report of the Russian Academy of Science "Monitoring of the socio-economic situation of the population". According to their information, the number of working hours increased by 17.6, compared with last year. At the same time, the average working day also increased to 7.09 hours, although in 2016. the values ??ranged from 6.97 to 7.01 hours. Of course, this affected the fact that Russians began to earn less money, they do not have enough time for this. The number of people employed in additional work fell by half, to 1.6 million. Once the working time has grown, the incomes of Russians, it would seem, should also increase proportionately, but in reality this did not happen - in two years, the average salary increased by 4.2%. This is negligible, since inflation in 2016 alone amounted to more than 5%, having taken all this growth. And even if the price growth this year will be kept, as planned, at a record low of 2.

08%, it will mean that the dynamics of wages from it significantly lags behind. If we talk about those who began to "live better", then most succeeded in 2017. specialists and managers. The payment of their labor increased by 17-18%. And less than all the money went to the workers of trade and consumer services. The salary rose by only 1.6%.

Employers also stopped encouraging workaholics, whose number increased to 56% across the country. Pay processing only to every third.