Overview
- X5 reports courier income has been rising about 15% a year, with average monthly earnings exceeding ₽100,000 in 2025.
- Job-platform data show the median offered salary in courier vacancies climbed 26% year over year to ₽146,000, though actual take-home pay varies by hours and workload.
- Employers posted more than 193,000 courier openings from January to November, with demand up 15% and over 4.2 million candidate responses.
- Profiles of applicants skew young and male: 22% are 14–18, 29% are 18–25, 76% are men on hh.ru, over 83% are men in X5’s sample, and 77% report no prior work experience.
- X5 links higher earnings to delivery growth, citing a 30% increase in orders for packaged ready-to-eat food over the past year.