{"id":23342,"date":"2025-04-23T16:52:04","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T13:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/survey-russians-prefer-salaries-in-dollars-over-cryptocurrency\/"},"modified":"2025-04-23T16:52:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T13:52:04","slug":"survey-russians-prefer-salaries-in-dollars-over-cryptocurrency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/survey-russians-prefer-salaries-in-dollars-over-cryptocurrency\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey: Russians Prefer Salaries in Dollars Over Cryptocurrency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.ru\/investicii\/535706-bolee-poloviny-rossian-hoteli-by-polucat-vsu-zarplatu-v-inostrannoj-valute\">Forbes<\/a> report, 53% of Russians would rather receive their salaries in foreign currency, while only 16% favour cryptocurrency. This data comes from a survey conducted by the international platform Stape among 5,000 individuals aged 18 to 55.<\/p>\n<p>Among the respondents, 33% chose the US dollar, 28% preferred the euro, and 20% opted for the Chinese yuan. Only 8% of those surveyed wished to receive their entire salary in rubles.<\/p>\n<p>Men were more likely to choose the US dollar for their salaries (36%), while women showed a preference for the euro (32.1%).<\/p>\n<p>While 16% expressed interest in fully transitioning to cryptocurrency payments from employers, the majority admitted they do not consider digital assets stable and do not understand how they function.<\/p>\n<p>In a mixed payment scenario, 28% of Russians would like to receive more than 50% of their income in foreign currency, and 25% would prefer at least a third of their salary in such currencies.<\/p>\n<p>Some 39% of respondents would save their salary in foreign currency without converting it to rubles, while 32% would invest the funds received.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by the central bank, over the past three years, residents of Russia have <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/russians-triple-their-investments-in-cryptocurrencies\">tripled<\/a> their investments in cryptocurrencies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a Forbes report, 53% of Russians would rather receive their salaries in foreign currency, while only 16% favour cryptocurrency. This data comes from a survey conducted by the international platform Stape among 5,000 individuals aged 18 to 55. Among the respondents, 33% chose the US dollar, 28% preferred the euro, and 20% opted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23341,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[167,27,1645],"class_list":["post-23342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-research","tag-russia","tag-salaries"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"38","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}