Headcount and Personnel Breakdown

Average headcount of Rosseti Kuban in 2020 amounted to 8,959 people, up 3.6% year-on-year, on the one hand, due to administrative and managerial staff rightsizing, and on the other – due to the enrolment of production personnel in the power grid areas and the consolidation of property owned by JSC DVEUK/JSC DVEUK–ENES (as part of the consolidation of power grid assets).

In general, the state of the Company’s human resources is quite stable: in 2020, the level of staff sufficiency was 96.9%, production staff sufficiency – 96.9%, voluntary turnover — 6.6%, the average age of employees – 43 years.

The employee breakdown by categories is representative of the companies of the power grid complex and has remained quite stable for the last three years: blue collars account for 49.5%, managers – for 21.3%, and white collars – for 29.2%.

Over the past three years, there has been an increase in the proportion of employees aged 35 years to retirement age (+3.1 p.p.) amid a decreasing proportion of employees aged under 35 years (–2.7 p.p.) and the proportion of working pensioners (–0.4 p.p.).

Employees of Rosseti Kuban are characterized by a fairly high level of qualification: 86.3% of employees have a professional education. This figure has risen by 1.4 p.p. over the last three years.

The gender composition of the Company’s employees is representative of the companies of the power grid complex: as of 31 December 2020, the share of men was 73%, women – 27%.