Wages and life level of workers in industry

The article deals with the analysis of the industry worker wages and level of the satisfaction of different needs. The author uses data of the sociological researches conducted in the Samara region which show consumer opportunities of the workers with different levels of salary. The conclusion is drawn that in spite of the outlined positive tendencies in nominal salary growth, its real size hasn’t change and that doesn’t allow growing of the standard of living of workers. As the aspects of standard of living the consumer opportunity of workers’ families, living conditions and recreational opportunities were studied.