OREANDA-NEWS On average, Russians need 200 thousand rubles a month to feel happy, it follows from the results of a survey of the SuperJob job search service (RBC has it). For six months, this indicator increased by 2.5% — in March, the average Russian needed 195 thousand rubles to be happy.

The survey was conducted from August 1 to September 13. It was attended by residents of over 500 settlements over the age of 18. 2.5 thousand respondents participated in the general survey, another 20.5 thousand — in the survey of the population of large cities and cities with millions. In Moscow and St. Petersburg, 1.5 thousand people answered the questions, in other megacities - 500.

Moscow is in the first place according to expectations, here you need 265 thousand rubles a month for happiness. The second place is shared by St. Petersburg and Vladivostok - 230 thousand rubles each. Khabarovsk (220 thousand rubles) and Rostov-on-Don (218 thousand rubles) follow next. The most modest "lucky" amounts are in Yaroslavl and Barnaul (177 thousand rubles each), in Kirov, Volgograd and Astrakhan (180 thousand rubles each).

In relative terms, money requests increased the most compared to March in Yaroslavl (+10%), in Volgograd, Lipetsk, Ufa, Chelyabinsk and Khabarovsk (plus 9% each).

It also follows from the survey that men's requests exceed women's by almost 30% — 222 thousand and 175 thousand rubles, respectively. At the same time, young people under 24 need less money than Russians over 35: 150 thousand and 222 thousand rubles per month. The cost of happiness also increases with the level of real incomes of respondents: 155 thousand rubles for Russians with salaries up to 50 thousand rubles and 260 thousand rubles. those who earn more than 80 thousand rubles a month.