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Jobs & cost of living · Russia

For recent grads: how easy it is to find work, how good the jobs are, what they pay and what life costs.

Grad view

Russia
Youth unemployment
7.6 % · 2025
Recent-grad employment
no data
Average wage (PPP)
no data
Price level
37 USA = 100 · 2025
Housing squeeze
no data
Latest RU
Unemployment rate %2.22026
Youth unemployment, 15–24 %7.62025
Unemployment with a degree %1.52024
Not in employment, education or training (NEET) %6.72025
Part-time work %7.12025
Price level of household consumption USA = 100372025
Big Mac price US$1.74H1 2022

Unemployment

Unemployment rate

monthly where available · %
Source: IMF, World Economic Outlook (DataMapper)

Youth unemployment, 15–24

US 16–24 · %
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, CC BY 4.0

Unemployment with a degree

advanced education · US bachelor’s, 25–34 · %
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, CC BY 4.0

Graduates

Not in employment, education or training (NEET)

EU 15–29 · elsewhere 15–24 · %
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, CC BY 4.0

Job quality

Part-time work

share of employment · %
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, CC BY 4.0

Cost of living

Price level of household consumption

how expensive life is at market exchange rates, USA = 100 · USA = 100
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, CC BY 4.0

Big Mac price

NL and EU: euro-area average · US$
Source: The Economist, Big Mac index (CC BY 4.0)

Not available for Russia: Unemployment, 25–29, Job vacancy rate, Job openings per unemployed person, Long-term unemployed (1 year +), Quits rate, Employment rate of recent graduates, Employment rate, tertiary-educated 25–34, Graduate earnings premium, Temporary contracts, Temporary contracts, 15–24, Hours worked per worker, per year, Very long hours (50 h + a week), Usual weekly hours, full-time job, Average annual wage, Median full-time wage (approx.), Real wage growth, Minimum wage, hourly, Minimum wage vs median wage, Minimum wage, monthly (EU), Price level now (OECD, monthly), Price level of household consumption (EU27 = 100), Price level: food (EU27 = 100), Price level: housing, water, energy (EU27 = 100), Price level: transport (EU27 = 100), Price level: restaurants and hotels (EU27 = 100), House price-to-income, House price-to-rent, Rents, Housing cost overburden, aged 25–29, Still living with their parents, 25–29.

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