According to statistics, the average salary of a loader in Russia is 34 thousand rubles, and the minimum salary ranges from 10 thousand rubles.
Often this work is temporary or as a part-time job, in which case, by profession, a loader is paid daily and is considered either hourly or per performance.
A loader can increase his level of income after completing courses where he will gain knowledge about packaging for different types of goods, about assembling and disassembling furniture elements, and about the principles of warehousing. After receiving a diploma for completing the courses, a person can apply for more serious types of work, which are paid more expensively.
The maximum income of loaders in Russia is 90 thousand rubles.
The average salary of a loader in Moscow is 20% higher than the average throughout Russia and remains at 40 thousand rubles.
There are a lot of shops, supermarkets, furniture showrooms, where permanent loaders are needed. If they have additional knowledge and skills, employees can receive a salary of up to 90 thousand rubles per month.
Supermarkets are considered a popular place to work, but this work also includes the ability to drive forklifts. For example, in the Pyaterochka chain of stores, an employee receives around 48 thousand rubles. For the position of loader Pyaterochka, the salary can increase with additional hours worked. This is a big plus of official employment, and, in addition, there are bonuses and allowances.
They pay well at Moscow airports: Vnukovo, Domodedovo, Sheremetyevo. The salary of baggage handlers at the airport is considered one of the highest; on average, this figure remains at around 70 thousand rubles.
Compared to Moscow, loaders in St. Petersburg receive less, and wages vary from 10 to 45 thousand rubles.
For example, in St. Petersburg there is a chain of Dixie supermarkets, where employment is official, there is a loader position on staff and the income level is stable. Working as a loader, an employee’s salary in Dixie will be within 43 thousand rubles.
There are a lot of offers for the professions of loader-packer, where the income will be above average.
The main thing when looking for a job is to have an accurate idea of what a person wants to do and what he can do. If you have the desire, you can find a position as a loader on a permanent basis with good pay.
The salary of a loader allows Russian representatives of the profession not to live in poverty. Much depends on what region you live in and what company you work for. The advantage of the vacancy is that the applicant is not required to have experience or qualifications. The main thing is to have physical health and strength and be able to lift weights correctly so as not to get injured.
Loaders are in demand everywhere, and the need for representatives of this profession has always existed. If you remember how it was in the USSR, then the stereotypical image of a person engaged in loading was not particularly respectable. It was believed that most movers drink, use profanity, and look unkempt.
This stereotype was not always true, but for the most part it was true. Citizens who made loading their profession earned little in the USSR - 70-150 rubles. As now, the rate depended on many factors.
Things are a little different for loaders in Russia in 2019 than in Soviet times. Let's start with the fact that self-respecting companies do not hire people who will undermine their authority. This also applies to those involved in loading. Workers are required to be disciplined and tidy. Most enterprises provide their employees with branded uniforms.
If you want to get a job loading at Eldorado or Magnit, you need to have good personal qualities. The same applies to those who expect to work for or at Aeroflot.
Loader – not the most popular profession among young people
Representatives of the profession are in demand, but this does not mean that anyone is accepted into the staff.
The average salary of a loader in Russia is 38-40 thousand rubles. This is the average for the country as a whole. It may be higher or lower, depending on:
Salary of capital movers
On the one hand, such a high level of salaries in the capital is influenced by the presence of a large number of supermarkets in the city, on the other hand, the constantly growing need for loaders.
If you intend to make money from loading, having additional knowledge, for example, the ability to pack or operate a forklift, will add value to you, and with it, increase your income. Professionals in the capital can earn up to 90,000 rubles per month.
It’s enough just to get a job as a loader in one of the capital’s supermarkets. If you know how to operate a forklift, you will be accepted, for example, into Pyaterochka, where at first you will earn 48,000 rubles a month. Over time, this figure may increase. If you take on extra hours, you can earn more. Don't forget about bonuses and allowances.
A good place for employment is the airport. At Aeroflot, loaders are paid more than the city average. The average monthly figure remains at around 70,000 rubles.
Loaders working at the airport earn more than their colleagues
In the northern capital, people involved in loading and unloading operations earn from 10,000 to 45,000 rubles. You can earn above average if you fill the vacancy of a loader-packer.
One of the popular supermarkets in St. Petersburg is Dixie. Working in it, representatives of the profession receive a stable 43,000 rubles. Official employment with a full social package.
In other regions of Russia, a loader's salary may be higher or lower than in St. Petersburg. Here are just some examples of average salary indicators:
In connection with the above, many are interested in what the salaries of loaders are in America and other countries. Let us immediately note that this type of activity has nothing to do with the great American dream. You definitely won't be able to get rich. The annual income for this vacancy is only 25,000 USD per year. You will earn about the same if you get a job in fast food or join the army service personnel in public places.
Hourly, but they do not pay it daily, but once a week or once every two weeks. For such conditions and earnings, students often go to the United States under special student programs. Considering the expenses that await you in the United States of America, movers in this state are more likely to live in poverty than live normally.
The average salary of a loader in Moscow is 34,617 RUR. This is approximately two times lower than the regional average - 77,274 RUR.
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But some metropolitan companies are willing to pay even 60 thousand rubles for such work. We analyzed almost 4 thousand vacancies for loaders on the websites “Headhunter”, “Superjob” and “Work in Russia” and found out where and how much you can earn through hard physical labor.
In most cases, loaders are hired without experience or any skills. But if, for example, an employee’s duties include driving a forklift, they will require a driver’s license, which gives the right to drive special equipment.
There are also often vacancies where the work of a loader must be combined with the position of a driver and a forwarder - a person who accompanies the cargo. They pay more for such work, but the responsibility is different. For example, they are willing to pay a loader driver at a beverage factory in Novokuznetsk 30-40 thousand. This is twice the average salary of a loader in the region - RUR 19,900. But you need a driver's license of categories B and C, a medical record and experience as a freight forwarder.
In general, work as a loader is often offered to be combined with other activities. There are vacancies for driver-courier-loader, loader-slinger, gas cutter loader, loader-boiler washer, a loader-cashier and even loader merchandiser: he not only carries the goods, but also monitors their layout in trading floor store.
They are willing to pay a forklift driver in Novosibirsk 25 thousand rubles. No work experience is required, but a driver's license for special equipment is required. They will give you special clothing and let you into the back room. Vacancy on Headhunter 
A freight merchandiser at Fix Price can build a career and become an administrator. Vacancy on Headhunter The average salary of a loader in the country, if you focus on vacancies, is RUB 24,408. This is almost two times lower than the average salary in Russia - 41,774 RUR, but two and a half times higher than the subsistence minimum, which is 10,444 RUR.
The minimum offered to a loader is 5 thousand per month. This is how much they pay at the Ryazan Metal-Ceramic Devices Plant. This is 0.3 times the rate, you will have to work part-time. No work experience is required; the candidate is required to be responsible, diligent, accurate and attentive.
The Rostex company promises to pay the highest salary - 82,000 RUR. Moreover, this company has four such vacancies. You'll have to work on a rotational basis a month and a half later in a month and a half in the Turukhansky district of the Krasnoyarsk Territory. The candidate must have at least three years of experience as a slinger.
You need communication skills, initiative and the ability to work in a team. From the employer - a social package and 5 thousand rubles per month. 
The salary is up to 82 thousand rubles, but you will have to work far from civilization: the nearest large city - Igarka - 140 km, to Krasnoyarsk - 1400 km. Vacancy from the site “Work in Russia” The greatest demand for loaders is in the Moscow region - almost every tenth vacancy is in this region. In second place is Moscow: 8% of all offers for such work. In third place is St. Petersburg: 5% of the total. The Novosibirsk and Nizhny Novgorod regions close the top five, accounting for 4% of vacancies each.
Loaders are paid the most in Yakutia - the average salary in the labor market, judging by the offers of employers, is 36,859 RUR. For example, this is the amount offered by the Yakutugol company. For comparison: the average salary in the region is almost twice as high - 64,605 RUR.
RUR 36,859
On average, loaders are paid in Yakutia
Loaders in Tyva are offered the least amount of money - 11,500 RUR. This is approximately three times less than the average salary in the republic - 36,067 RUR. To earn 11 thousand, you can get a job, for example, as a loader in a store in the city of Ak-Dovurak.
RUR 36,859
RUB 34,617
Moscow region
RUR 33,238
Kamchatka region
RUB 32,302
Sakhalin region
The work of a loader cannot be classified either as a prestigious profession or as a highly paid one. Nevertheless, this is, of course, necessary work, which cannot be done without. In addition, many people who later became successful started with this job, working part-time during their student years.
Let's find out how much loaders earn in Russia as a whole, in Moscow and in other regions of the country.
The average salary of a loader in Russia at the moment is about 23,000 rubles. Moreover, the spread in this type of activity in terms of wages is quite large. It is determined by the region in which the employee is employed, the type of activity of the organization that hired him, and the specifics of the work. The amount of monthly earnings can vary from 6 to 90 thousand rubles.
If everything is clear with the lower limit, since everyone knows that often this work, being unskilled labor, is paid quite low, then many people may have questions about the upper limit.
In fact, some specializations do require qualifications. For example, such specializations include a loader who is responsible for receiving goods, packing them, completing them, and assembling them. Often a contract is concluded with these employees financial liability. It is they who receive up to 90,000 rubles a month in large cities of Russia, primarily in Moscow.
But total percentage there are not so many similar workers. Most loaders do ordinary primitive loading and earn 10–20 thousand rubles a month.
Now let's find out how much loaders earn in specific Russian cities:
As we can see, quite expectedly, loaders in Moscow earn the most in Russia, then in terms of income come workers involved in loading in the capital of the Chechen Republic. People who perform loading work in the cities of the Far East have relatively good salaries.
Having studied how much a Russian loader earns, we can say that this work definitely cannot be classified as highly paid.
Of course, there are areas of activity and companies where even these employees are paid relatively well, but such vacancies are too few to talk about as something significant. In most cases, this work is low-paid, unskilled labor.
By the way, large supermarket chains deserve special mention here. The thing is that many people believe that at Pyaterochka or, say, Auchan, loaders earn a lot. However, in reality this is not the case. In the same “Pyaterochka” management strives to increase trade turnover by reducing the prices of goods as much as possible. This policy simply does not provide for high staff salaries. Perhaps top managers earn substantial money. However, this clearly does not apply to loaders, nor to ordinary cashiers. Although exceptions are also possible here.
The level of staff salaries directly depends on the policy chosen by the network management. Accordingly, the approaches in this case are different. While some employers strive to reduce the costs of doing business as much as possible, others try to prevent staff turnover. The best way To prevent this, pay staff properly.
The salary level also largely depends on the region. For example, in Moscow, representatives of this profession earn 20 percent more than in the country as a whole. However, perhaps everyone knows that capital salaries are in the vast majority of cases higher than in small cities. If we talk directly about loaders, then in Moscow they are really well paid. Here, a salary of 50 thousand rubles is considered quite normal. Loaders at the capital's airports earn even more:
Salaries here reach 70-80 thousand rubles. Even by Moscow standards, this is quite a decent amount.
Loaders' salaries in St. Petersburg are more modest. On average, representatives of this profession earn 35-40 thousand rubles per month in the Northern capital. As an example, we can take the well-known Dixie network. The average salary for a loader here is currently 43 thousand rubles. As you can see, this is more than the country as a whole. Although on small retail outlets employers often pay movers a minimum wage.
Loaders also earn good money in the capital of the Chechen Republic. According to official statistics, the average salary in Grozny today has exceeded 38 thousand rubles. Another favorable region for representatives of this profession is the Far East. At the same time, in most cities, loader salaries may not reach the average for the Russian Federation.
A loader can earn more if he performs some additional duties - accepting goods, collecting them, and so on. It is clear that such work will also be paid. Therefore, say, a loader-packer earns more than his colleague, whose responsibilities only include unloading or loading goods. The higher the qualification required extra work, the higher the wages. This approach on the part of employers is quite logical. Indeed, in this case, you can, in fact, pay one person “one and a half” salary, rather than hire two workers.
Directly affects size wages and such a factor as duration working day. Indeed, in most cases, the work of a loader is paid hourly. This means that the more time a person works, the higher salary he will receive at the end of the month. Generally speaking, the earnings of representatives of this profession are not very high. However, here, firstly, there are also some exceptions. Secondly, many consider such work as temporary. In this case, a person does not pursue high salary. He just needs to wait out the difficult time until a more suitable job is found.
