Real wages in China saw an annual average growth of 10.6% in the last 8 years, the highest among the G20 countries, according to a research report by Korn Ferry Hay Group. China’s salary growth was followed by Indonesia (9.3%), and Mexico…
SHANGHAI employees saw their salaries increase 6.7 percent on average in the first half of the year, but the raise was the lowest of all China’s first-tier cities, according to a survey. Pay rises in Shenzhen, Beijing and Guangzhou ranged from 7.1…
Shanghai overtook Beijing to be the best paid city for white-collar workers in the first quarter of this year, recruitment portal Zhaopin.com said yesterday. White-collar workers in Shanghai were the best paid on the Chinese mainland with a monthly average salary of…
The average monthly wage for China’s 166 million migrant workers rose 13.9 percent last year, said the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security on Thursday. Migrant workers, defined as those who have worked away from home for more than six months,…
A few years after finishing university, Jack Dai thought he had scored the holy trinity of success for a young Chinese man: a government job, an apartment and a wife. But he had not counted on one additional factor, less visible from…
Beijing college graduates expect a monthly salary of 3,684 yuan ($600) as they hunt for jobs, which is around 1,000 yuan less than graduates in 2012 expected, the Beijing News reported Thursday. The Beijing Youth Stress Management Service Center said that based…
Thirty-year-old Ye Lei had worked in a state-owned factory in her hometown Jiangxi Province for seven years. Although she had been promoted to the position of the department head, she quit her job last month to work as a sales representative in…
It’s a well known fact that Chinese labor is somewhat cheaper than what is available in the West, however in recent years Chinese salaries have sky rocketed at a rapid pace for the average white collar worker. Entry level jobs for a…
Recent statistics from the National Bureau of Statistics show that the average pre-tax salary for workers in the Chinese automobile industry is now at 13.58 yuan ($2.178) per hour, according to a report appearing on auto.163.com today. The salary level is considered…
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority will give its staff a pay rise of 4.5 per cent this year – slightly more than the market average but less than that at the Securities and Futures Commission. The city’s de facto central bank announced…
