Most of the employees at the end of 2018 (average annual value) were recorded in the field of wholesale and retail trade, repair of vehicles and motorcycles. 19.1% of the total number of employees in the country were employed in it.
Second place - manufacturing (14.1%).
Next are construction (8.9%), education (7.6%), transportation and storage (7.5%).
The smallest number of workers were employed in the areas of water supply, sanitation, waste collection and disposal, pollution elimination (1%), research and development (1.2%), mining and cultural and sports activities (1 each). 6%), as well as in financial and insurance activities (1.9%).
In total, over 71 million people worked for various types of economic activities in Russia over the indicated period.
Earlier, the Federal State Statistics Service called the main causes of unemployment in Russia.