The paper deals with the analysis of current state and basic tendencies in the dynamics of wages. The authors consider the basic contradictions in the context of establishment of the market institution of wages in the subjects of the Russian Federation. The dynamics of wages is appraised on the basis of the tax accounting of the regions. This approach, according to the authors, allows reflecting the current processes in the sphere of remuneration of labor in the context of economic instability more objectively.

Current problems and peculiarities of employment due to the growing shortage of manpower are discussed on the example of Sverdlovsk region. The causes of labour shortages and the main features of its overcoming are associated with an increase in economic activity, growing productivity, mitigating structural problems of the labour market and migration replacement. Priority areas for management of regional employment, taking into account the negative effects of demographic factors, are proposed. These trends include the increased interaction of ministries and departments to coordinate actions in the social sphere, science-based development model for monitoring the social and labour sphere (with the situational analysis, monitoring and short-term forecasting), modernization of software on employment in the current conditions and the formation of constantly updatable information database for the migration planning.