HR Management
The Gazprom Group respects the interests of its employees and holds their well-being, motivation, development, and satisfaction with working conditions as its top priority. The Gazprom Group employs people of more than 300 professions and thousands of working dynasties. The Gazprom Group’s performance relies on the effort of each and every employee of the large team, all working hard and absolutely committed to ensuring the country’s prosperity for the benefit of the current and future generations.
HR Management System
The Gazprom Group’s key goal in HR management is to build a competitive, highly professional, responsible, and cohesive team aimed at effectively addressing urgent challenges faced by the Group in the current economic, social and political environment.
The HR Management Policy of PJSC Gazprom and its subsidiaries and entities seeks to establish effective personnel management based on social partnership principlesApproved by resolution of the Management Committee of OJSC Gazprom No. 49 dated November 7, 2006.. The Policy’s key goal is to maximize return on investment in talent by maintaining a status of the preferred employer, comprehensively motivating each employee to achieve the Gazprom Group’s goals, as well as creating and developing an unbiased and efficient framework to assess personal contribution of each employee.
The Gazprom Group continuously improves its approach to HR management and every five years reviews the key document in the area — Comprehensive Program for Improvement of HR Management at PJSC Gazprom, its Subsidiaries and Entities (the "Program")In 2023, the Group applied the Comprehensive Program for Improvement of HR Management at PJSC Gazprom, its Subsidiaries and Entities in 2021–2025 approved by resolution of PJSC Gazprom No. 201 dated April 26, 2021..
Focus areas:
- Headcount planning;
- recruiting and assessment;
- employee training and development;
- staff motivation;
- social policy;
- expenditure management, reporting, and performance assessment;
- information support and corporate communications.
We set KPIs for each focus area of the Program. Their achievement is reviewed annually when operating results of the Gazprom Group entities are assessed.
For more details on employee engagement at the Gazprom Group, see Appendix.
Risk Management Measures in HR Policy
The Gazprom Group seeks to reduce HR management risks by ensuring that the Group entities employ sufficiently qualified personnel, developing professional skills in employees by means of comprehensive training programs, and increasing employee motivation to learn and develop. The Comprehensive Program for Improvement of HR Management at PJSC Gazprom, its Subsidiaries and Entities in 2021–2025 and risk mitigation measures by the business process owner make sure that the personnel risks remain at an acceptable range.
For more details on the Gazprom Group’s HR management regulations, see Appendix.
Equal Rights of Employees
The Gazprom Group tolerates no labor discrimination based on gender, nationality, religion, and other circumstances not related to professional qualities. All of the Group’s HR decisions are made exclusively based on professional qualities of employees or applicants.
PJSC Gazprom also adheres to the Russian laws and International Labor Organization’s standards as related to daily working hours and labor conditions, occupational safety, remuneration, social security, and paid holidays.
Social benefits are provided to all employees of the Gazprom Group entities and special categories of employees in accordance with the Russian legislation.
In case of suspected discrimination, employees of the Gazprom Group entities may apply to PJSC Gazprom’s Corporate Ethics Commission in order to protect their interests.
Equal rights and opportunities for all of the Gazprom Group’s employees are set out in the General Collective Bargaining Agreement of PJSC Gazprom and its SubsidiariesApproved by the conference of employees of OJSC Gazprom and its subsidiaries on November 23, 2012..
For more details on PJSC Gazprom’s Corporate Ethics Commission, see the PJSC Gazprom’s Corporate Ethics Commission subsection.
General Collective Bargaining Agreement of PJSC Gazprom and Its Subsidiaries
- Serves as the basis of the social partnership mechanism;
- ensures the balance of employee and employer interests by setting out their mutual obligations;
- outlines uniform social obligations for the Group’s subsidiaries engaged in the production, transportation, processing, storage, and sale of gas.
The signing and amending of the General Collective Bargaining Agreement, as well as the supervision of its implementation fall within the scope of the Commission Governing Social and Labor Relations of PJSC Gazprom and its subsidiaries composed on an equal basis of duly authorized representatives of the parties to the General Collective Bargaining Agreement.
In February 2024, the General Collective Bargaining Agreement was prematurely extended to the period from January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2027.
Composition of the Management Committee, %
| Indicator | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gender | |||
| • male | 85.7 | 85.7 | 92.3 |
| • female | 14.3 | 14.3 | 7.7 |
| Age | |||
| • under 30 y.o. | — | — | — |
| • 30 to 50 y.o. | 14.3 | 14.3 | 15.4 |
| • over 50 y.o. | 85.7 | 85.7 | 84.6 |
The Gazprom Group entities strictly comply with the requirements of Russian laws on job quotas for persons with disabilities. To this end, the Group’s entities formalize employment relations with such employees for any jobs or enter into agreements for the employment of people with disabilities with third-party organizations or sole proprietors. Employees with disabilities and employees raising children with disabilities enjoy additional benefits and guarantees.
Personnel Structure
Headcount of Gazprom Group entities as of the end of the reporting period
| Indicator | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
Change 2023/2022, % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Headcount as of December 31 of the reporting year, thousand people | 479.2 | 492.2 | 498.1 | +1.2 |
| incl.: |
Share of the Gazprom Group’s employees by category, % |
Change 2023/2022, p.p. | ||
| Executives | 14.3 | 14.5 | 14.8 | +0.3 |
| incl.: | ||||
| • male | 75.9 | 75.7 | 75.9 | +0.2 |
| • female | 24.1 | 24.3 | 24.1 | —0.2 |
| incl.: | ||||
| • under 30 y.o. | 3.6 | 3.6 | 4.1 | +0.5 |
| • 30 to 50 y.o. | 69.8 | 69.3 | 68.2 | —1.1 |
| • over 50 y.o. | 26.6 | 27.1 | 27.7 | +0.6 |
| Specialists and other white-collar staff | 34.2 | 34.4 | 34.7 | +0.3 |
| incl.: | ||||
| • male | 58.8 | 58.8 | 59.3 | +0.5 |
| • female | 41.2 | 41.2 | 40.7 | —0.5 |
| incl.: | ||||
| • under 30 y.o. | 11.9 | 11.9 | 11.8 | —0.1 |
| • 30 to 50 y.o. | 68.0 | 67.4 | 66.2 | —1.2 |
| • over 50 y.o. | 20.1 | 20.7 | 22.0 | +1.3 |
| Workers | 51.5 | 51.1 | 50.5 | —0.6 |
| incl.: | ||||
| • male | 78.6 | 78.8 | 78.9 | +0.1 |
| • female | 21.4 | 21.2 | 21.1 | —0.1 |
| incl.: | ||||
| • under 30 y.o. | 13.9 | 13.8 | 13.4 | —0.4 |
| • 30 to 50 y.o. | 57.1 | 56.7 | 55.7 | —1.0 |
| • over 50 y.o. | 29.0 | 29.5 | 30.9 | +1.4 |
The increase in the Gazprom Group’s headcount in 2023 was driven by the implementation of strategic gas processing projects, reorganization of gas distribution companies within Gazprom Mezhregiongaz Group, and commissioning of major liquid hydrocarbon production projects.
The increase in the share of employees over 50 years old across all staff categories is due to the natural ageing of personnel and the pension reform in Russia in 2019–2028.
Shift Personnel
The Gazprom Group entities operate in remote regions of Siberia, the Russian Far North and offshore areas. In 2023, the number of shift employees working at sites located far away from population centers, often in harsh weather conditions, amounted to 59,200 people.
The Gazprom Group values their contribution and strives to make their work in adverse weather conditions as comfortable as possible. We bring shift workers from the meeting point to the place of work and back by corporate transport, continuously improve the infrastructure of shift camps, provide high-quality medical care and the necessary social services. In addition, Gazprom Group entities strictly monitor compliance with work and rest schedules for shift personnel.
| Indicator |
December 31, 2021 |
December 31, 2022 | December 31, 2023 |
Change 2023/2022 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Roster of employees of the entities which use the shift system, thousand people | 225.2 | 233.9 | 241.3 | +3.2 % |
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Headcount of shift staff, thousand people, incl.: | 53.9 | 56.7 | 59.2 | +4.4 % |
| • people working in the Far North and equivalent areas | 50.2 | 52.9 | 56.0 | +5.9 % |
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Relative share of shift staff in the roster of the Gazprom Group entities which use the shift system, % | 23.9 | 24.2 | 24.5 | +0.3 p.p. |
Remuneration and Motivation System
Financial Incentives
The Gazprom Group provides its employees with decent remuneration in line with the Russian laws and PJSC Gazprom’s Employee Remuneration Management PolicyApproved by order No. 133 dated March 20, 2015 (as amended). (the “Policy”), which establishes unified approaches to remuneration within the Gazprom Group.
The Policy provides for the fixed part of remuneration (salaries / tariff rates) and the variable part (extra payments, allowances, and bonuses). Linked to the remuneration system, the fixed part constitutes up to 70% of the remuneration.
The remuneration systems used by Gazprom Group entities provide for:
- setting salaries and tariff rates based on qualifications and business skills;
- monthly performance bonuses;
- extra payments, allowances depending on working conditions and the amount of work performed;
- one-off bonuses for launching new production facilities, introduction of new equipment, energy savings;
- year-end performance bonuses.
Remuneration for work performed under non-standard conditions, including overtime, is paid in accordance with labor laws and other documents containing labor regulations. In order to maintain the level of real remuneration under Article 134 of the Labor Code of the Russian Federation, salaries and wages are indexed annually for employees of PJSC Gazprom and its subsidiaries and entities. Salaries and tariff rates of the employees of PJSC Gazprom’s budgeted entities in Russia were raised by 2.0% on January 1, 2023.
Average monthly salary at subsidiaries responsible for the core operations of PJSC Gazprom, RUB thousand
| Indicator | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
Change 2023/2022, % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average monthly salary | 107.2 | 127.3 | 136.8 | +7.5 |
In 2023, the average monthly salary at the subsidiaries responsible for the core operations of PJSC Gazprom (gas production, processing, transportation, and underground storage) amounted to RUB 136,800, up 7.5% year-on-year.
Non-financial Incentives
The Gazprom Group values the contribution of its employees to the business and industry development and rewards them with state, ministerial, and corporate awards.
In 2023, 4,966 employees and 11 teams of the Gazprom Group received awards for their personal contribution to the energy sector development, outstanding achievements, and many years of diligent work, including:
- state awards of the Russian Federation — 40 people;
- presidential awards — five people and one team;
- awards from the Russian Ministry of Energy — 1,427 people; other ministries and agencies — 207 people;
- corporate awards of PJSC Gazprom — 3,287 people and ten teams.
The Gazprom Group also holds professional competitions as an additional personnel development and motivation tool and the means of promoting professional achievements and best practices.
Professional competitions in core professional disciplines relevant for PJSC Gazprom subsidiaries are held in even years as part of Labor (Workmanship) Festivals. In the reporting year, the preparations for the 2024 Labor Festival were in progress.
In 2023, we held a competition to name the best technical aids and training materials for PJSC Gazprom’s Continuous Vocational Education and Training System in 2022–2023. 23 subsidiaries and four educational institutions submitted 55 training solutions for the competition.
In October 2023, Expoforum, a convention and exhibition center in St. Petersburg, hosted the Third International Construction Championship organized by the Ministry of Construction, Housing, and Utilities of the Russian Federation and Rosatom Nuclear Energy State Corporation. PJSC Gazprom’s team topped the main competition league by the number of awards. Competitors from the Gazprom Group received 32 medals in 22 team and individual nominations and became leaders by collecting the biggest number of gold medals — nine.
4,221 employees
of the Gazprom Group took part in professional skills competitions in 2023 (up 11.5% year-on-year)
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