Per Capita Incomes by Russian Regions in 2026: Ranking and Gap Between Regions
In 2025 the per capita monetary income in Russia was 74,932 rubles per month per person. In the first half of 2026 Rosstat's estimate is already 72,500 rubles, 7.3% higher than at the same time a year earlier. The gap between regions is huge: in Moscow 165,866 rubles, in Chukotka 213,494, and in Ingushetia 30,260, i.e., seven times less than in Chukotka. Below is the ranking of regions, dynamics since 2013, an explanation of why incomes jump up in the fourth quarter, and how many times the income exceeds the subsistence minimum. Each chart on roschart.ru has an interactive version.
What is per capita income and how does it differ from salary
Rosstat calculates per capita monetary income as follows: all monetary receipts of the region's residents are divided by the number of residents and by months. The sum includes salaries, pensions and benefits, income from property and from entrepreneurship. Everything is divided among every resident, including children and pensioners, so the figure is always lower than the average salary and closer to what actually falls on one person in a family.
For comparing regions this indicator is more convenient than salary: it takes into account how many pensioners and dependents there are in the region. But it has a weak point worth remembering. It is an average for everyone, not the income of a typical person: a few very wealthy residents raise it noticeably above what most people receive. More about such differences in the article on median salary.
Ranking of regions by per capita income in 2025
Data for 2025 are still considered preliminary by Rosstat. The table on the website has 87 rows. The Nenets, Khanty-Mansi and Yamalo-Nenets districts are listed as separate rows next to the oblasts they belong to.
The highest per capita figures are in the following regions:
- Chukotka Autonomous Okrug: 213,494 ₽
- Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug: 170,867 ₽
- Nenets Autonomous Okrug: 166,716 ₽
- Moscow: 165,866 ₽
- Magadan Oblast: 147,148 ₽
- Sakhalin Oblast: 117,212 ₽
- Kamchatka Krai: 114,450 ₽
- Saint Petersburg: 103,838 ₽
- Murmansk Oblast: 97,104 ₽
- Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug: 94,008 ₽
The lowest:
- Ingushetia: 30,260 ₽
- Karachay-Cherkessia: 35,081 ₽
- Tuva: 39,180 ₽
- Kalmykia: 42,121 ₽
- Mari El: 43,497 ₽
- Stavropol Krai: 44,109 ₽
The chart shows the main feature of the ranking: the top is occupied by northern, resource‑extracting territories and the two capitals, while the bottom is filled with the republics of the North Caucasus and southern Siberia. Moscow, with 165,866 rubles, is 2.2 times above the national average. Ingushetia receives 40% of the all‑Russia level. The gap between Chukotka and Ingushetia is 7.1 times, between Moscow and Ingushetia 5.5 times.
Only 19 of the 87 regions have incomes above the Russian average of 74,932 rubles. This is explained by the average being pulled up by several wealthy territories. The full list, sortable by any column, is available on the dataset page.
Federal districts: the Center and the North ahead
Looking at the districts, the picture broadens. In 2025, income per person was:
- Central: 101,796 ₽
- Northwestern: 82,651 ₽
- Far Eastern: 79,418 ₽
- Ural: 73,100 ₽
- Southern: 62,738 ₽
- Siberian: 58,485 ₽
- Volga: 58,238 ₽
- North Caucasus: 46,887 ₽
Only the Central, Northwestern and Far Eastern districts are above the national average. The Central district leads largely thanks to Moscow: for comparison, in Moscow Oblast the income is 91,248 rubles. And the Volga district, where many people live, lags behind the national average by more than 16 thousand rubles.
How incomes have changed since 2013
In nominal rubles, income per person grew over twelve years from 25,631 rubles in 2013 to 74,932 in 2025, i.e., by 2.9 times. The annual series looks like this: 30,140 rubles in 2015, 35,934 in 2020, 47,386 in 2022, 63,959 in 2024. In 2025 alone, the increase was 17.2%.
Important caveat: these are rubles without price adjustment. Over these years everything became more expensive, so the growth of real purchasing power is noticeably more modest. How prices changed is shown in the article about inflation in Russia by year, and the change in incomes adjusted for prices is examined in the article about real incomes by region.
Regions grew unevenly. Moscow grew 2.7 times from 2015 to 2025 (from 60,465 to 165,866 rubles), Tyva 2.5 times (from 15,500 to 39,180), Ingushetia 2.0 times (from 15,358 to 30,260). So Moscow is not only richer, it is also pulling away: in 2015 the gap between 60,465 rubles in Moscow and 15,358 in Ingushetia was 3.9 times, and by 2025 it had risen to 5.5.
If we count from 2020, the fastest growth was in Kabardino‑Balkaria (2.5 times) and Oryol Oblast (2.3 times), slower in Khanty‑Mansi Autonomous Okrug (1.7 times) and Ingushetia (1.75). Across Russia as a whole, income over five years grew 2.1 times.
You can view any region separately on the pages for Moscow, Tyva and Chukotka: there you will find the dynamics of real incomes and the region’s rank among others.
Why incomes are higher in the fourth quarter
Rosstat publishes incomes by quarter, and the pattern is jagged. In 2025 for Russia per capita it was 63,470 rubles in the first quarter, 71,690 in the second, 73,038 in the third, and 91,180 in the fourth. The fourth quarter is higher than the first by 44%.
Most likely it is due to payments that fall at the end of the year: annual bonuses, thirteenth salaries, dividends. In Moscow the fourth quarter of 2025 gave 205,291 rubles per person versus 140,489 in the first. In Ingushetia 42,454 versus 23,003, the jump there is even sharper.
Therefore, one should compare identical periods. The first half of 2026 (72,500 ₽ nationwide) is correctly compared with the first half of 2025 (67,580 ₽): growth of 7.3%. By region the increase varies:
- Chukotka: from 195,523 to 242,030 ₽ (+23.8%)
- Moscow: from 145,351 to 164,174 ₽ (+13.0%)
- Tuva: from 30,961 to 34,887 ₽ (+12.7%)
- Ingushetia: from 24,902 to 26,926 ₽ (+8.1%)
Data for 2026 Rosstat classifies as an estimate, they will still be refined.
How many times income exceeds the subsistence minimum
The amount alone says little about life. In Moscow and Ingushetia the ruble is worth differently, so Rosstat also calculates the ratio of income to the regional subsistence minimum. In the second quarter of 2026 the average income per person in Russia was 4.05 times higher than the subsistence minimum (405.1%).
Each year the curve repeats a seasonal zigzag: a low point in the first quarter and a peak in the fourth. The lowest value was in the first quarter of 2015 (261.7%), the highest in the fourth quarter of 2024 (521.9%). In the second quarter of 2025 it was 404.3%, so over the year the indicator changed hardly at all: incomes grew at roughly the same speed as the subsistence minimum.
Regional dispersion here is smaller than in rubles. In the second quarter of 2026 the highest ratios were in the Yamalo‑Nenets Autonomous Okrug (740.7%), Moscow (636.1%) and Saint Petersburg (546.6%). The lowest were in Ingushetia (163.6%), Karachay‑Cherkessia (197.7%) and Tyva (199.4%). In Ingushetia the average income is only 1.6 times the subsistence minimum, meaning a significant part of the population lives at the poverty line. The subsistence minimum by region is discussed in the article about 2026, and all regions by quarters since 2013 are available in the dataset on the ratio of income and subsistence minimum.
Frequently asked questions
What is the average income per person in Russia in 2026?
According to Rosstat, 72,500 rubles per month in the first half of 2026. For the whole of 2025 it was 74,932 rubles. The yearly total is higher than the half‑yearly figure because it includes the fourth quarter.
Which region has the highest incomes?
In Chukotka: 213,494 rubles per person per month in 2025. Among the large regions, the first is Moscow with 165,866 rubles.
Which region has the lowest incomes?
In Ingushetia: 30,260 rubles per month in 2025. Next are Karachay‑Cherkessia (35,081) and Tyva (39,180).
Brief
In 2025 the average per‑capita income in Russia was 74,932 rubles per month, which is 17.2% higher than a year earlier, and 2.9 times higher than in 2013 (in nominal rubles, without price adjustment). The leaders are Chukotka (213,494 ₽), Yamalo‑Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Nenets Autonomous Okrug and Moscow, while Ingushetia (30,260 ₽), Karachay‑Cherkessia and Tuva are at the bottom. Only 19 regions out of 87 have incomes above the national average. In the first half of 2026 the estimate is 72,500 rubles, 7.3% higher than the previous year. The average income in Russia is 4.05 times the subsistence minimum, in Ingushetia only 1.6 times. Data source: Rosstat.