) Practices of reward and performance management for workers and front-line employees : As the officially set tariff system and official rates secure only hungry subsistence, most reward systems for workers and front-line employees is based on two parts of salary. The basic salary, sometimes set accordingly to the official tariff system (in privatized and state-owned companies tariff system is used more often) is a first part that may occupy between 10 and 60% of take-home pay. The second part is called “premium,” but is usually considered as automatically given. Besides salary system, nowadays Russian companies re-build the system of social benefits, both in monetary and natural forms (see Table 7).