UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 5, 2015. Job-seekers on Yekaterinburg labor market are now asking to be paid, on average, 35,000 RUR a month, which is 3,000 RUR more than at the start of the year, HeadHunter reports.

Yekaterinburg happens to be Ural Federal District’s only city where pay expectations have gone up. In the rest of Sverdlovsk Region, applicants typically expect to be paid exactly as much as a year earlier (25,000 RUR a month in Kurgan, 30,000 RUR in Tyumen and Chelyabinsk, 35,000 RUR in Surgut and 50,000 RUR in Salekhard).

‘Judging by the proposed pay figures quoted by Yekaterinburg employers in their vacancy postings, applicants’ expectations are very close to how much an employer is prepared to pay. In 2014, for instance, pay expectations stood at 32,000 RUR a month on average, while an employer was prepared to pay 32,500 RUR. Now both employers and job-seekers usually have around 35,000 RUR a month in mind,’says head of HeadHunter Urals’ press service Maria Zabotina.