Average headcount and Headcount Optimisation Programme

Labour productivity in transport services was improved by 9.8% from 2015, and by 10.3% vs 2014.

The operations staff increased its productivity in terms of value by 17%, the production staff by 17.4%.

Overall, the average headcount across all business lines was reduced from 71,629 in 2014 to 63,109, or by 8,519 FTEs (–11.9%). Headcount was reduced by 7,390 FTEs for the production staff (–11.7%), and by 1,130 FTEs for the management staff (–13.2%).

Indicator 2014 2015 2016 2016/2015, %
Passenger turnover on trains made up by FPC, billion passenger-kilometres 87.5 81.1 85.1 97.2%
Total average headcount, FTEs 71,629 66,515 63,109 –8,519
Production headcount, FTEs 63,092 58,898 55,702 –7,390
Management headcount, FTEs 8,537 7,616 7,407 –1,130
Productivity of FTEs in transport services, thousand passenger-kilometres / FTE 1,327.8 1,334.5 1,465.0 110.3%
Productivity of operations FTEs, thousand RUB / FTE 2,591.3 2,724.7 3,188.3 123.0%
including production FTEs 2,941.9 3,077.0 3,612.3 122.8%