Under market conditions, the weight of each employee performance increases and impacts efficiency of divisions and a company in whole. An important part in this regard belongs to the system of wages as a tool capable to kindle interest of personnel in the desired results of work. Experience shows that Russian mining companies follow the prevailing trend of raising salary level generally under influence of external factors, such as inflation. There is often no connection between rewards and results. This publication presents estimation and comparison of the main results obtained within five years-long activities on promoting concernment of machine men engaged in maintenance of vehicles in the desired quality of work.

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The remuneration system in mining is a set of conditions and regulations which enable setting and implementation of payment of wages in compliance with competency, complexity and responsibility of personnel. Ineffective remuneration is one of the key factors to cutting down productive time of personnel, work quality and economic efficiency of a whole mine. As a rule, this situation is a consequence of lacking interaction between the rate of wages and work quality of employees in the remuneration system, moreover, figures, which govern the rate of wages, have no considerable influence on production efficiency. This article describes approach to the remuneration system for maintenance personnel. This approach ensures workers’ concernment in the required level of operability and in reduction in unit cost of corrective maintenance of mining and haulage machines. In terms of the process equipment repair department Chernogorsky Repair and Engineering Works, the key production indexes are calculated by the presented procedure.