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The banking profession is slowly losing popularity with Russians. The number of people, who call this profession profitable, has declined from 49% in 2007 to 43%, the Yuri Levada analytical center said.

Twenty-four percent of the respondents think that pop stars make a lot of money, and twenty-three percent have the same opinion of judges, prosecutors and lawyers. The popularity of the position of a minister or a parliamentarian dropped from 24% and 26% in 2007 to 22% in 2009.

The rate declined from 20% to 18% for governors, and from 17% to 16% for mayors of large cities, the center said.

Thirteen percent of the respondents believe it profitable to be a businessman and a criminal lord.

Only two percent believe in the profitability of the professions of a journalist, a television anchor, an engineer and a farmer.

The least popular professions are an army officer, a scientist, an artist, a sculptor and a professional beggar.

Three percent found it difficult to answer the question.

The center polled 1,600 adults in 128 towns and cities in 46 regions on August 14-17. The error does not exceed 3.4 percent.

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