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theincredibleegg · Joined: 01 Jul 2008 Posts: 224

Here are the average salaries for Beijing in year 2007:

Beijing average income hit $4,660
Last Updated(Beijing Time):2007-03-29 10:55
The average income for urban workers in the Chinese capital hit 36,097 yuan (about 4,512 US dollars) last year, a rise of 3,289 yuan (about 411 U.S. dollars) from a year ago.

According to statistics provided by the municipal bureau of statistics, the top wage earners were people working in securities and banking services, legal services, transport services, petroleum and natural gas exploitation. They earned more than 100,000 yuan (about 12,500 US dollars) on average over the past year.

They were followed by people working in the insurance, corporate financing and computer services sectors. They earned between 80,000 yuan and 100,000 yuan on average.

Employees in telecommunications, tobacco, software, radio and TV services earned less than 80,000 yuan last year.

The lowest salary earners were security guards who only made 9,000 yuan on average last year. They were followed by workers in furniture making, catering, textiles, garments and footwear who earned less than 19,000 yuan.

The data was collected from workers with state enterprises, collectives, joint ventures, solely-foreign invested ventures in Beijing. It did not include employees of home-based businesses

donb2222 · Joined: 06 Feb 2009 Posts: 134

Maybe average salaries, but not average incomes.
It is obvious to me that my co-workers and neighbors earn much more than their official salaries.

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Laurence · Joined: 26 Apr 2005 Posts: 401

Good distinction from donny B:

Zero · Joined: 08 Sep 2004 Posts: 1402

china-1994 · Joined: 24 Mar 2010 Posts: 36

1995-1800 RMB all are per month
1996-2000..
1997- 5000 With extra work
1998- 8000 ""
1999- 12,000
2000- 48,000
2001-25,000
2002- 20,000
2003- 10,000
2004- 15,000
2005- 8,000
2006-5,000
2007- 4,000
2008- 4,500
2009- 6,000
2010- ????
Cheers,
WW
P.S. Not everything is upwardly mobile:)

Zero · Joined: 08 Sep 2004 Posts: 1402

Could you specify a little more about how you earned the money, particularly in the highest years? That does not sound like plain old English-teaching. International school, certified teacher, maybe, but regular jobs, no way.

china-1994 · Joined: 24 Mar 2010 Posts: 36

Yeah, sure. It was a combination of IELTS teaching and being an Examiner.If I recall the examining brought in about 7-9,000 a month for 3 weekends with another 4-7 days dedicated to marking writing.The remainder came from an explosion of IELTS cram schools offering usually 300 RMB per hour, but sometimes as high as 500 RMB.

Cheers,
W

Halapo · Joined: 05 Sep 2009 Posts: 140 Location: Jiangsu, China

Big fact about Chinese teachers working at government run schools:

They get two paychecks! One from the school and one from the government.

Normally the two are equal or close to. Normally when you ask a Chinese teacher how much they make, they only tell you the amount the school pays.

I should note that there have been some changes to this lately. Many provinces have switched to a system were the government pays the teachers. This is to cut out schools collecting money from parents and then sending it on to the government after they take their "operational costs".

So, like most people, Chinese Teacher like to down-play their wage. Also the school can/use to offer help buying homes or cars. Instead of taking a loan from the bank, you take a loan from the school. Of course this can trap schools with poor teachers, seeing as if they fire them, they wont get their money back. So they keep the dead wood around longer. And the other way around, it can trap teachers. They cant move on to other jobs until they pay off their loans.

china-1994 · Joined: 24 Mar 2010 Posts: 36

When I first came to Beijing, it was easy to know what the average Zhou was making. Many were given free apartments,free medical and dental. The salary ,though low, was complete savings. The juiced/guanxied folks ...well, you were foolish to ask them their salaries; you simply looked and saw what they were spending/buying.