How much do NLMK workers earn on average? Sergey Styuflyaev: “The Novolipetsk Metallurgical Plant gave me everything: a job and a family

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The term “wages” in the field of economics and finance is used to refer to the amount of monetary payment that a worker receives for his work. In other words, salary is the price of work done.

Its size is influenced by a number of factors:

• supply and demand in the labor market;
• prestige;
• age characteristics;
• qualification level;
• working conditions;
• quality and speed of order execution.

Accordingly, the well-being of an individual employee directly depends on the income received in the form of a constant salary. The higher the salary, the higher the standard of living.

In order to determine the level of well-being of the entire country, the Federal State Statistics Service (FSSS) collects data on wages of the working population and calculates their average value. This average is called the “national average wage.” In the regions and regions of Russia there are also Rosstat services that deal with similar calculations. On the FSGS website http://www.gks.ru/ you can see the data provided based on the analysis of information on monthly wages for several years (monetary amounts taken without tax deductions) - 33 thousand 240 rubles.

More data on the level of average wages can be found on sites that offer jobs (job.ru, hh.ru, rabota.ru, superjob.ru). The information they provide is based on offers from employers, who may deliberately exceed the figures in order to attract interested people to work. In Russia, as of June 2019, the average salary of an employee, according to these sites, is 28 thousand 553 rubles (it should be taken as 13-17% less, that is, 24 thousand 270 rubles). The portal “Russian Personnel Agencies” https://person-agency.ru/ also calculates the average salary, but based on fixed data from site visitors, who indicate the amount of money after all deductions and deductions - 18 thousand 126 rubles.

Thus, it is possible to compare official statistical data with the opinion of ordinary workers who believe that this information is artificially inflated.

Lipetsk: average salary in 2019

The city of Lipetsk is the regional and administrative center. At the moment, 510 thousand 152 people live in it. Residents of the city can work at industrial enterprises (NMK - Novolipetsk Iron and Steel Works, Lipetsk Tractor, Lipetsk Cement Plant, Reinforced Concrete Plant, Lipetskmoloko, clothing and shoe factories, etc.), in the field of trade, construction, transport, education and science (5 universities operate). Lipetskstat (statistics service of the Lipetsk region) http://lipstat.gks.ru/ provides the following data: the monthly average salary as of November 20, 2018 was 23 thousand 669 rubles (this is 54th place in Russia). The website “Jobs” http://upjobs.ru/obzor-zarplat/lipeck/ contains calculations of the average salary in Lipetsk, based on two indicators (as of January 1, 2019):

1. For vacancies - 31 thousand 339 rubles.
2. According to the resume - 24 thousand 638 rubles.

Another site, Trudbox.com, which deals with statistical calculations related to the labor market in Lipetsk, provides figures for 11 months of 2019. According to this information, the average salary of a working Lipetsk resident is 28 thousand 820 rubles.

The Styuflyaev-Batischev dynasty has a total work experience at the plant of 107 years.

November 7 will mark the 83rd anniversary of the first smelting of cast iron at the Novolipetsk Iron and Steel Works. Today there are more than 200 labor dynasties at the enterprise. The largest metallurgical family is more than 30 people, and the total work experience of this dynasty at NLMK is 691 years. There are many families of metallurgists at the plant, whose total work experience is about 200 years.

The Styuflyaev-Batishchev family’s total work experience at the plant is not so impressive - it is 107 years, but this dynasty has its own “zest”: all members of the large friendly family work in the Railway Transport Administration.

36-year-old Sergei Styuflyaev is the chief specialist of the department. From early childhood he raved about cars. There was no car in the family, and the first acquaintance with technology took place in the cabin of a diesel locomotive, where little Seryozha was once placed by his father Vladimir Styuflyaev, a mechanic, and uncle Lev Styuflyaev, a driver of the former locomotive workshop. That childhood feeling of a grandiose huge transport system, in which rails, sleepers, drivers, diesel locomotives and stations are linked, has remained in my memory to this day.

Once upon a time, my uncle was the youngest driver at the plant, because previously young people were hired only as assistant drivers,” says Sergei Styuflyaev. - My father turned 60 this year, but as long as his health allows, he also continues to work at NLMK. And my brother Nikolai works at the plant: he came as an assistant driver, but then retrained as a welder.

My childhood dream of working with technology resulted in my favorite job in adulthood. After school, Sergei Styuflyaev graduated from the Lyceum, then from Leningrad State Technical University. After university, he served in the army, and then came to work at the plant.

“I started my career as a dispatcher,” says Sergei Styuflyaev. - Then there was a period of training, I gained experience working at all stations in the region. I always liked equipment and technology, I liked to study, I tried to delve into the specifics of the work of all the third-party workshops that our department serves. Now I have experience at all stations behind me! Since last year I have been working as a chief rolling stock specialist and acting as head of the railway transport department.

NLMK played a decisive role in the fate of Sergei Styuflyaev. Here he not only found his life’s work, but also met his true love.

The plant gave me everything: a job, a family, here I honed my character, learned to think diversified and plan,” says Sergei Styuflyaev. - And my childhood dream of technology came true. The work is hard, but loved and promising!

Sergei’s wife Svetlana Styuflyaeva came to NLMK as a train receiver at the second converter district, Skladskaya station. She, like her future husband, knew her future job from childhood - her grandfather and father also worked at the plant.

Svetlana’s grandfather Viktor Batishchev once upon a time came to UZDT as a “bootsman” - now this position is called a traffic controller. Her father, Alexander Batishchev, is a senior locomotive driver who recently retired. Svetlana's brother Alexander also started as a machinist. Svetlana Styuflyaeva herself managed to work as a station attendant and a workshop dispatcher.

Sergei and Svetlana Styuflyaev met for the first time at the “Young Leader” competition. They found themselves at the same table during the competition. Then Sergei reached the semi-finals of the competition, and Svetlana dropped out almost immediately. Real feelings flared up in an informal atmosphere, when they were preparing a concert on their own for Railway Worker’s Day. Svetlana and Sergey played together in a fairy tale. The fairy tale turned out to have a happy ending - since then they have never parted.

Now the family is raising two children, the youngest is only 1 year and 4 months old. And the young mother Svetlana Styuflyaeva is already working as a dispatcher at the plant.

The eldest 14-year-old son is also eyeing the profession of metallurgist. He recently went on an excursion to NLMK.

So the first step has already been taken - the dynasty of metallurgists and railway workers will be continued,” jokes Sergei Styuflyaev.

A metallurgist is a specialist in smelting metals from ores and recycled materials. He is constantly in a hot shop, exposed to heavy physical activity and harmful gases. Only strong and resilient men become professionals.

Revenue from specialists

The salary of a metallurgist depends on the rank received and is approximately 40 – 50 thousand rubles. ($612 – 765). The work takes place in an unbearably hot workshop, with harmful conditions.

Specialists wear special fire-resistant overalls, a helmet, and felt boots on their feet all year round.

These are the most reliable shoes for a professional.

A metallurgical engineer in Russia earns:

• Kostroma region – 80,000 rub. ($1223);
• Amurskaya – 75,000 ($1,147);
• Murmanskaya – 53,750 ($822);
• Kemerovo - 50,000 ($765);
• Rostov - 45833 ($701).

Each plant employs several engineers with their own specialization.

They earn:

• mountain – 73667 rub. ($1126);
• with knowledge of English – 72,670 ($1,111);
• presenter – 71667 ($1096);
• welding engineer – 60833 ($930).

The technologist's salary reaches 90000 ($1376) . Along with all bonuses and additional payments, he receives 105 thousand rubles. or $1605/month.

Main metallurgist of a country's plant earns from 66667 before 140000 ($1019 – 2141). Factory workers Elektrostal"receive a salary of from 16 to 40 thousand ($245 – 612).

Bonuses and benefits

In addition to salaries, metallurgists receive incentive bonuses and additional benefits:

• compensation for food costs – 100 rubles. ($1.5)/shift;
• 40 paid vacation days, which can be divided into 2 times;
• 90% discount on health resort vouchers, instead of 40,000, the employee pays only 4,000;
• 10 years of experience in a hot shop gives the right to early retirement at the age of 50;
• The annual bonus is 40,000 rubles. ($612);
• free medical care at the factory clinic.

Various factories are constantly developing new measures to improve the quality of life of workers - they are building kindergartens, schools, and residential buildings.

Remuneration in the Commonwealth Countries

Ukraine

Vacancies for metallurgists are distributed between the Dnepropetrovsk and Lviv regions in a ratio of 3:1. The average salary of factory workers in the center of Ukrainian metallurgy – Zaporozhye region, corresponds to 26207 UAH ($939) per month.

Average salary at PJSC AMKR amounted to 11129 ($399) . But workers believe this is not enough. They want to be paid no less 1000 euro/month.

At MMK im. Ilyich specialists earn:

• metal heater – 7000 UAH ($635);
• rolling mill operator – 8,000 ($287);
• converter – up to 13,000 ($466).

The table shows a comparative analysis of wages at two flagships of the Ukrainian metallurgy:

Kazakhstan

The head of a metallurgical enterprise receives a salary of 1 million tenge ($2755) per month. Oddly enough, women holding the position of plant director earn almost twice as much - 1.7 million ($4683). Average salary in the industry – 198200 tenge ($546).

Depending on their position and specialization, masters earn:

• head of the department - 437,600 tenge ($1,206);
• workshop foreman - 213,200 ($587);
• shift supervisor – 230,000 ($633);
• shop manager – 383,800 ($1,057);
• labor protection and safety engineer – 221,000 ($609);
• technologist - 157,900 ($435);
• electrician – 306,500 ($844);
• ferroalloy furnace hearth – 189,000 ($521);
• pyrometrist – 82900 ($229);
• mechanical technician – 117,800 ($325).

The table shows data on the monthly revenue of metallurgists in the CIS countries:

Profits of colleagues abroad

At the factory " Arcelor Mittal» the average worker's earnings are $72.55/hour. This includes premiums, insurance and benefits. The same specialist earns at Arcelor Mittal Krivoy Rog $530/month.

A real hunt has begun for specialists with higher education in America. Enterprises with the best working conditions and high wages win. Even a novice specialist can receive $57 – 66 thousand. in year. After 5 years his salary goes up up to $100 thousand.

Luxembourg

Each worker is paid more than $13000 per month. For 1 hour he gets $162.

Germany

Average steelworkers' salary 4685 euros per month. Depending on their position, they receive:

• fitter – 3695 euros;
• mechanical engineer – 4035;
• equipment operator – 2345;
• accountant – 6135;
• controller – 2745.

Canada

A graduate of an educational institution begins a career with a salary of $52000/year.

An experienced specialist who constantly improves his qualifications earns approximately $86000 . Maximum salary - $126,000/year, received by high-level professionals.

China

A Higher Education Base Specialist can expect an income of $240 - $410 per month. The position of technologist, obtained after three years of training, brings a monthly income of up to $1,550.

Vacancies

1. LLC "Calcodon Stroy" Tyumen region, a metallurgical engineer is required to conduct metallurgical research, introduce new metals and alloys. Salary – up to 40,000 rubles. ($612) per month.
2. LLC "Lermontovsky GOK" offers an experienced metallurgist a vacancy as a chief specialist of the enterprise to coordinate the actions of the team. Salary – 53770 ($822).
3. Donkarb Graphite LLC, Chelyabinsk, invites for cooperation a product inspector with secondary specialized education, without work experience. Salary – 22,000 ($336).

How much does a metallurgist earn - income chart

On December 27, 2011, at 0.40, 26-year-old mechanic Dmitry Shamilin died at blast furnace No. 7 “Rossiyanka”. He slipped on pellets scattered on the flooring, fell and was caught between the moving conveyor belt and the conveyor drum. The guy was crushed in a matter of seconds, and then for 5 hours a whole team scraped off the bloody pieces of human flesh scattered across the conveyor. According to eyewitnesses, the death occurred due to the lack of a conveyor fence.

In the morning, before the authorities arrived, they managed to remove the scattered pellets and install the fence. Now a special commission will decide what caused the worker’s death. Is it a production factor or is the deceased himself to blame? This will determine whether Shamilin’s widow and his disabled mother will receive monetary compensation.

According to NLMK management, this is the 4th death at the plant in 2011. But is this really so?

Contractors

Dozens of repair and construction organizations work at the plant. According to the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of the Lipetsk Region, over 11 months of 2011, 6 more people died in the plant’s workshops. These are contractors. But NLMK management does not consider these workers to be their own and does not include them in the statistics of deaths in metallurgical production. Even in cases where the enterprise’s guilt in the death of people has been fully proven.

Representatives of the plant act “wisely” in such cases. When endorsing the acts of investigation into fatal accidents, they write “We do not agree with the commission’s conclusions, dissenting opinion.” See photo.

The position of NLMK clerks, such as the head of the labor protection department of the NLMK labor protection and industrial safety department A. Adamenko, apparently is this: if we admit the plant’s guilt in the death of a worker, then we can cast a shadow on the image of the flagship of the Russian ferrous metallurgy.

Please note that all members of the commission signed the act on April 29, and the NLMK representative only on May 5. Apparently, for 6 days he consulted with his superiors about his “dissenting opinion.”

And the report dealt with the death of Andrey Shkenev, an instrumentation and automation mechanic at Promelektrostroy LLC, who fell from a 9-meter height while repairing electrical equipment at converter shop No. 2 of NLMK. And all members of the commission except Adamenko stated that the workshop management issued a permit for work with gross violations, and the installed fencing did not comply with GOST.

Reading these lines, someone will say indignantly: the death of a worker at NLMK is death at NLMK! But Novolipetsk Metallurgical Plant will again not agree with this. The logic of the plant bosses is as follows: NLMK with all its workshops has a legal address: Lipetsk, pl. Metallurgov, 2. And the office of Promelektrostroy LLC, where the work book of mechanic Shkenev, who died in the second converter shop, was located on the street. Talalikhina, 3. And this is no longer the territory of NLMK, and, therefore, the fatal incident has nothing to do with the plant. Therefore, there is no need to spoil the statistics.

During the recent restructuring of NLMK, many of its divisions became subsidiaries. In one of them - NLMK Construction and Installation Trust LLC - on September 23, worker G. Petunin died when he fell from a height. But deaths of employees of subsidiaries at Novolipetsk Metallurgical Plant are also not taken into account.

So... In 2011, 4 NLMK employees, 6 contractors and 1 worker of a subsidiary company died at the plant. That is, 11 people. But that is not all.

Non-production cases

NLMK's sad statistics do not include deaths recognized as non-production related. For example, on the morning of September 13, the foreman of converter shop No. 1 A. Sokolskikh and his colleague senior foreman I. Panin were on their way to work. At the crossing, their car was crushed by a diesel locomotive of the NLMK railway transport department. People died on the spot.

When investigating the accident, the opinions of the commission members were divided. The technical inspector of the mining and metallurgical trade union and the state labor inspector spoke in favor of recognizing the death of converter workers as a fatal accident at work. Since the tragedy occurred on the territory of NLMK and both foremen were heading to the beginning of the shift at the time necessary for timely arrival at the workplace and in a car with a pass for movement around the plant. Other members of the commission made a different decision by majority vote.

Three representatives of NLMK, a representative of the Social Insurance Fund and an official from the labor department believed that the deaths were in no way related to work activity and the company was not to blame for their deaths. They say that the craftsmen were crushed by a diesel locomotive before the start of the working day.

Someone will ask, what exactly is the difference? You can't bring people back. And the difference, it turns out, is huge. If the commission had recognized the fact of a fatal accident at work, the relatives of the victims would have received a one-time payment of 64 thousand rubles from the Social Insurance Fund. This is, firstly.

Secondly, according to the collective agreement, NLMK would be obliged to compensate the families of the victims for moral damages in the event of the loss of breadwinners in the amount of their average earnings for 3 years.

And thirdly, 2/3 of the average earnings of the master of KTs-1 Sokolsky would be transferred monthly to two young children until they turn 23 years old. And senior master Panin’s retired parents would receive a substantial benefit for life.

And since the death was considered non-industrial, no one received a penny. The plant paid only for coffins, crosses and wreaths.

Now you can guess why all three NLMK representatives voted this way. They cared about the oligarch's money.

But that's not what this conversation is about. We have already counted 13 deaths that occurred at NLMK in 2011. But there could be much more. Even if we do not take into account deaths in the workplace from heart attacks and strokes.

People not only die at work, but are also seriously injured, and then end up in hospitals and die from injuries. But no one counts these deaths. Died and died. The main thing is that it is not on NLMK territory.

We also know nothing about those who died untimely in 2011, becoming disabled due to injuries or occupational diseases. Such statistics simply do not exist.

Why is this happening?

Since Soviet times, the main indicator of labor safety performance of any enterprise has been and remains the accident frequency rate. It is calculated based on the number of victims per thousand workers. On average in Russia, this coefficient ranges from 3 to 4 units, depending on the industry. And at NLMK for 11 months of 2011 it was only 0.37, that is, 10 times less. One would be happy for the Novolipetsk residents, if you didn’t know that in metallurgical companies in Europe and the USA this ratio goes beyond 30, and in Japan it is close to 40. Is it possible that the situation there with labor organization and safety precautions is 100 times worse than in NLMK? Hardly.

The whole point is that in the West they do not chase beautiful figures in statistical reporting, but take into account 100% of accidents, including microtraumas. You could end up in jail for hiding them.

At NLMK, most of the accidents are hidden. And it's no secret. If someone pinches a finger, sprains a leg, breaks an arm, or gets shavings in the eye, then, as a rule, this is not a work-related injury, but a household injury. Because everyone understands: if there is a reported accident, then the foreman, the shift foreman, the department head, the safety engineer and the workshop manager will be deprived of their monthly and quarterly bonuses. And at the same time, the victim himself will be found guilty of violating safety regulations and will also be punished. And who wants to lose money? Hence the cover-ups.

Don't believe me? Judge for yourself. According to NLMK's preliminary reports, in 2011 there were only 4 fatalities at the enterprise, and only 11 of all other recorded work-related injuries.

If just above we counted the deaths of not 4, but 13 workers, then you can imagine how many accidents of varying severity occurred at the plant in 2011. Well, certainly not 11.

Maybe, Mr. Lisin, it’s enough to show off and hide industrial accidents for the sake of creating an imaginary positive image of the enterprise? Or are numbers more important to you than human destinies?

I would like to believe that this is not the case. After all, you, Vladimir Sergeevich, live in Great Britain, and it’s time to start thinking and working in a European way.