People in Beijing and Shanghai get more incomes than before
Based on official statistics, the companies in Beijing and Shanghai kept on boosting worker’s incomes last year, although we are now going through the worst financial disasters.
According to the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Statistics, last year, workers in Beijing averagely earned 44,715 yuan, which is 4,848 yuan more, or a 12 percent increase than that in 2007.
Statistics of the Shanghai Municipal Statistics Bureau shows that last year, workers in Shanghai averagely earned 3,292 yuan a month, which is 400 yuan more or 13.8 percent increase than that in 2007.
Beijing’s statistics bureau also showed us a picture of different salary standards in different careers. Beijing’s statistics bureau has 138,000 units, including State-owned, private, foreign-funded and joint venture companies. Among which, stockbrokers earned most salary last year. Some top executives earned more than 1 million yuan last year.
People in financing, banking, maritime transport, air transport, insurance, tobacco, radio, TV, film and audio industries, made 100,000 yuan on average last year.
People in Telecommunications, computer service, and software industries earned 80,000 to 100,000 yuan on average last year. They are just below those financial workers.
However, the industries of clothing, footwear and headgear were the poorest industries for their workers earned less than 20,000 yuan on an average.
As salaries vary in different industries, they also diverse greatly in the same industry. The most dramatic difference can be show in the securities industry, whose annual incomes varies from less than 50,000 yuan to more than 1 million yuan.
Different opinions have been aroused by this data. Lin Nan, an employee of a Beijing-based exhibition firm said, “I first thought it was impossible that people’s salaries could vary so drastically. I did not get any raise in my salary last year.”
And he believed that this survey dose not show the real status because the interviewed people are only a small group of filthy rich employees showing a jump in everyone’s salary.
A secretary general of Shanghai Human Resources Consulting Association claimed that it is the Shanghai’s introduction of more international financial professionals last year that helped raise the level of salaries.
As he said, shanghai has been trying to attracting more top talents from around the world to develop more high-end sectors like consulting, financial and technology research. The effort made on optimizing the city’s industry structure is also a factor on increasing salaries.
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