Citizens consider deputies and lawyers to be overrated specialists
Russians see a clear discrepancy between the volume of work and responsibility and the size of salaries for construction workers, factory workers, medical workers, and teachers. This is evidenced by the data of a study by a large service for finding high-paying jobs, in which 1,600 representatives of the economically active population of the entire country took part.
Most often, Russians named teachers and educators (19%), doctors and nurses (14%) as undervalued specialists.
Every eleventh person said that the work of engineers is undervalued. According to ten percent of respondents, skilled workers are paid unjustifiably little. By the way, regarding the latter, such an opinion is largely a consequence of stereotypes. Workers' salaries are growing rapidly against the backdrop of a personnel shortage in construction and manufacturing.
6% of respondents consider the salaries of cleaners and janitors to be too low, 3% — sellers. Another 3% talk about the extremely low earnings of employees of budgetary organizations. 2% each said that the salaries of accountants and lawyers are too low. Interestingly, lawyers were not only on the list of underrated, but also in the top of overrated specialists, according to Russians.
And the leaders in terms of the most unjustifiably high salaries were deputies (17% of the votes). In second place were IT specialists (13%), and in third place were civil servants (8%).