As of the end of 2022, Russian Railways had a headcount of 701,200 people. The share of employees under 35 years of age was 36.2% of the total headcount, which is in line with the targets of Russian Railways Human Capital Development Programme. The share of employees with higher education was 33.3%, those with secondary professional education – 27.8%, and employees with school education (grades 1–9 and grades 1–11) and primary vocational education – 38.9%.
Russian Railways’ staff compositionAs at 31 December 2022., %
Age structure
Education
Gender composition
Personnel categories
Russian Railways’ personnel structure with a breakdown by gender, age, education and category, people
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Indicator
2020
2021
2022
PERSONNEL STRUCTURE BY AGE AS AT THE END OF THE REPORTING YEAR
Women (under 30)
40,821
36,887
36,794
Men (under 30)
112,443
102,471
103,840
Women (31–50)
136,894
127,603
126,963
Men (31–50)
300,524
295,982
296,417
Women (over 50)
42,844
41,929
43,225
Men (over 50)
89,924
91,433
93,925
PERSONNEL STRUCTURE BY CATEGORY AS AT THE END OF THE REPORTING YEAR
Women (managers)
16,244
14,600
14,763
Men (managers)
40,761
40,319
40,656
Women (office workers and white-collar employees)
132,345
121,772
121,330
Men (office workers and white-collar employees)
79,161
76,939
77,074
Women (blue-collar employees)
71,970
70,047
70,889
Men (blue-collar employees)
382,969
372,628
376,452
PERSONNEL STRUCTURE BY EDUCATION AS AT THE END OF THE REPORTING YEAR
Higher
242,999
230,713
233,555
Secondary vocational
203,285
195,719
195,999
Other
277,166
269,873
271,610
Russian Railways’ personnel structure with a breakdown by gender, age and category as at the end of the reporting year, %
Age group
Category
Gender
Under 30
30-50
Over 50
Managers
Men
0.51
4.09
1.19
Women
0.11
1.47
0.53
Office workers
Men
2.25
6.25
2.36
Women
2.68
9.60
2.57
White-collar employees
Men
0.05
0.04
0.03
Women
0.44
1.41
0.60
Blue-collar employees
Men
11.99
31.89
9.81
Women
2.02
5.63
2.46
In 2022, the Company hired 102,000 people, including 7,100 graduates of sectoral educational institutions that train specialists under higher and vocational education programmes in accordance with the needs of Russian Railways’ branches.
The headcount goes up in May to September as the Company takes on seasonal workers and students under internships.
New employee hires in 2022 by gender and age, people
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New hires
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
Men
67,477
64,911
42,012
56,335
73,546
Women
27,425
26,037
14,739
23,956
28,507
Under 30
54,159
50,385
30,386
44,095
56,297
31–50 years of age
32,494
31,788
21,370
28,911
37,098
Over 50
8,249
8,775
4,998
7,285
8,658
Staff turnover is one of the Company’s key performance indicators, with its threshold set at 8% as per the internal calculation methodology. In 2022, it remained below the threshold, within the set target values, and amounted to 6.3%.
Personnel turnover, %
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Russian Railways monitors employee turnover by business unit on an ongoing basis. In addition, the Company carries out a detailed analysis of the reasons behind staff turnover in the first year of employment, by personnel category, and by age group (under 35 years of age). Questionnaires filled out by quitting and dismissed employees are used to collect data on staff turnover causes and develop roadmaps and retention programmes.
Quitting and dismissed employees, people
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Quitting and dismissed employees in the reporting year