Couriers have overtaken IT workers in terms of salary growth. By the New Year, companies will be ready to pay delivery workers hundreds of thousands of rubles: Markets: Economy: Lenta.ru

Salaries of foot couriers in Moscow may increase by the New Year to 300 thousand rubles, and for delivery workers with a driver’s license – up to 400 thousand. This is the forecast for the Kommersant newspaper. given several economists.

It is alleged that in the Russian capital there is now a serious shortage of personnel – at least 15 thousand people are looking for delivery services on the HeadHunter platform alone. “There will be an acute staff shortage in the next three weeks. Conditionally “Yandex”Ozon, “Samokat” are pretty much raking the market. And because of this, it is growing,” said the head of the logistics products department at SDEK Nikolay Pakhomov.

At the same time, the publication notes that due to the lack of couriers, delivery in the second half of December may rise in price by one and a half to two times.

Couriers overtook IT workers in salary growth

Couriers in Russia overtook on the growth of salaries of doctors, journalists and IT specialists. From January to November, the median salary of couriers increased by 15 percent, to 115.6 thousand rubles per month. This is more than the salaries of doctors (88.4 thousand rubles), teachers (47 thousand rubles) and IT specialists (for example, the salary of BI analysts and data analysts was 114.2 thousand rubles).

According to the job search service Superjob, the average salary of a walking courier in Moscow over four years grew up by 100 percent, and the programmer by 77 percent. In addition to salary increases, potential employees are motivated by a flexible schedule with the ability to choose their own work shifts, bonuses, allowances and additional social guarantees.

Couriers were seen as a threat to the Russian economy

The growing popularity of delivery services saw problem for the Russian economy. This was stated during the round table “The Future of Digital Platforms and Ecosystems: Finding a Reasonable Balance of Regulation”, said the Director of the Department for Domestic Trade Development Ministry of Industry and Trade Nikita Kuznetsov. According to a representative of the department, delivery services draw a huge amount of labor and labor resources – millions of healthy, physically strong people who are missing in other sectors of the economy. Currently, the industry employs one and a half million couriers and about half a million packers, order pickers and other delivery employees.

Professor Higher School of Economics Evgeniy Kogan explainedthat the rapid increase in couriers' salaries is a side effect of the fight against illegal migration. “We are seeing a shortage of couriers and other unskilled personnel in Russia. At the same time, the demand for couriers in our country is very high,” the economist expressed his point of view. He recalled that online trading in Russia continues to develop rapidly, and therefore more and more Russians prefer to order goods and products online rather than buy them in person. Kogan expressed confidence: the tougher the authorities fight against migrants, the higher the salaries of couriers will be.