Largest employers in Russia

Information agency Credinform represents a ranking of the largest employers in Russia. Using the Information and Analytical system Globas, the experts of the Agency have selected TOP-10 of companies with the highest number of employees and the highest profit per employee, as well as found out in which company the labor resources are used most effectively.

• Revenue per employee helps to assess the level of labor productivity.
• Profit per employee allows to assess the effectiveness of human resource management.

Table 1. TOP-10 companies of Russia by the number of employees and figures per employee

№	Name	The number of employees, thousand employees	Revenue per employee, thousand RUB	Profit per employee, thousand RUB	Industry
1	Russian Railways	711,6	2534,2	134,7	Passenger transportation
2	RUSSIAN POST	277,2	214,7	0,8	Information and communication
3	MAGNIT	239,0	5843,3	75,3	Trade
4	ROSTELECOM	130,8	2357,0	-24,7	Information and communication
5	SURGUTNEFTEGAZ	101,1	15294,2	1212,2	Oil and gas
6	FEDERAL PASSENGER COMPANY	54,3	4061,7	155,4	Passenger transportation
7	LENTA	42,9	10176,3	263,3	Trade
8	AVTOVAZ	36,2	8007,3	-1,0	Car manufacturing
9	DIKSI YUG	34,3	8168,1	23,2	Trade
10	URALVAGONZAVOD	30,1	2718,7	104,8	Military industrial complex

Russian Railways lead by the number of employees. The company confirms the status of the systemically important enterprise in Russia, since over 711 thousand people are employed in its structure.

It is noteworthy that the ranking includes three food retailers: MAGNIT, LENTA and Дикси. The companies are the largest federal retail chains, which have 27 thousand stores and employ about 316 thousand people throughout Russia.

The highest revenue and profit per employee was recorded for the oil company SURGUTNEFTEGAZ. One employee brought the organization 15,2 million RUB of revenue and 1,2 million RUB of net profit. Surgutneftegaz is not only the largest employer in Russia, but also the most efficient company in term of the labor management.

The lowest revenue per employee was recorded for state postal network RUSSIAN POST (214,7 thousand RUB), and ROSTELECOM and AVTOVAZ have a loss per employee.

The ranking showed that the largest amount of revenue and net profit per employee is accounted for by food retail and oil and gas companies.