September 1, 2014. According to a national survey, Yekaterinburg proved the second best city in Russia to make a career, Superjob’s research center reports.

23,000 working-age Russian citizens from Chelyabinsk, Irkutsk, Kazan, Khabarovsk, Krasnodar, Krasnoyarsk, Moscow, Nizhniy Novgorod, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Perm, Samara, Saint Petersburg, Saratov, Sochi, Togliatti, Tyumen, Vladivostok, Volgograd, Voronezh, Yaroslavl, and Yekaterinburg were surveyed.

As Superjob points out, respondents were driven by practical factors rather than patriotic ones when giving their answers. For one, two-thirds of Yekaterinburg residents are positive that the Urals’ capital is the best place to start climbing up the career ladder.

Respondents say Yekaterinburg offers a chance to try finding one’s calling in absolutely all economic sectors and fields of activity, to find an interesting job, and to meet people with many different accomplishments.

Only 16% of those surveyed in Yekaterinburg did not agree with these statements and insisted that even getting promoted in Yekaterinburg meant ending up with lower pay compared with the salaries offered to people in the same positions in Moscow or Saint Petersburg.

Saint Petersburg was on top of the rating. 68% of Saint Petersburg residents are confident that it is their native city where they can do their best in terms of career.

Moscow is the last one of the top three. 66% of Muscovites surveyed believe their city is the best place to make a career. However, increasingly more local residents voice their concerns and increasingly more of them say that ‘it is easier for a migrant worker to find a job than it is for a local resident’, ‘all the jobs have been taken by people from other places, all the salaries have been shifted down’.

Tyumen has the fourth position in the rating. 65% of Tyumen residents are sure their ambitions can become a reality in this city. Then there is Kazan, where 62% of respondents gave the same answer, followed by Novosibirsk (55%), Krasnoyarsk (53%), and Nizhniy Novgorod (51%).

Omsk is in the last position in the rating of career-boosting cities: 18% of Omsk residents surveyed believe it is possible to make a career in their native city.