Editor's Note: The following article was translated and edited from an article that appeared on finance.chinanews.com. The article presents the 2011 annual employee salary ranking for 23 provinces and provincial cities across China.  Burgeoning cities, such as Beijing and Shanghai, saw tremendous growth while some of the less developed areas, such as Guangxi were much more stagnant. While the results may not be so surprising, they are indicative of the increasing economic inequality that is occurring at the provincial level throughout the country.

On July 6, the China News Financial Channel Statistics released a chart illustrating the 2011 average annual and monthly salaries of employees in 23 different provinces and provincial cities across China. According to the statistics, employees in Beijing received the highest average salary at 4,672 RMB per month, followed closely by Shanghai, with 4,331 RMB per month.  Zhejiang employees came in third with an average salary of 3,888 RMB per month. While the inclusion of these three areas at the top of the 2011 list isn't in itself much of a surprise, it is quite interesting that China's political capital has surpassed its financial capital in terms of average employee salary. On the other side of the equation are the unfortunate employees in Gansu, Jiangxi and Guangxi provinces who are earning substantially less per month (2,742 RMB, 2,838 RMB and 2,848 RMB respectively).

It should be noted that numbers on this chart reflect the average employee salary from both public work units and private businesses in Shanghai, Beijing, Sichuan and Hebei, while only employees from public work units are included in the other 19 provinces.

Average salaries in seven provinces surpass national average

In 2011, public work unit employees nationwide earned an average of 42,452 RMB annually; a 14.3% increase over their 37,147 RMB average annual salary in 2010. Even adjusted for inflation, employees' salaries still increased by 8.5% nationwide. The statistics also show that average salaries for public work unit employees in Beijing, Shanghai, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Guangdong, Ningxia and Qinghai all outperformed the national average, with those in both Beijing and Shanghai topping 50,000 RMB annually!

However, while salaries may have increased by 8.5% nationwide on average, the range between individual provinces was vastly different. In 2011, the province with the highest annual growth of employee salaries was Fujian, which saw a jaw-dropping 19.4% increase. Meanwhile, those in Guangxi remained relatively stagnant last year, with only a 1.54% annual increase to employee salaries, making it the lowest in the nation.

Province and Provincial City 2011 Annual Salary Ranking Chart
Province/City	Monthly Salary (RMB)	Annual Salary (RMB)	Growth Rate (%)
Beijing	4,672	56,061	11.2
Shanghai	4,331	51,968	11.1
Zhejiang	3,888	46,660	12.4
Jiangsu	3,832	45,987	13.5
Guangdong	3,763	45,152	6.3
Ningxia	3,715	44,574	13.9
Qinghai	3,541	42,493	14.6
Tianjin	3,520	42,240	12.5
Anhui	3,387	40,640	11.9
Chongqing	3,337	40,042	7.6
Shanxi	3,325	39,903	12.97
Shaanxi	3,254	39,043	7.7
Fujian	3,249	38,989	19.4
Sichuan	3,160	37,942	14.5
Shandong	3,061	36,737	8.9
Hainan	3,060	36,716	18.3
Hebei	3,014	36,166	6.3
Hunan	2,960	35,520	16.5
Yunnan	2,949	35,387	17.0
Jilin	2,850	34,197	16.3
Guangxi	2,848	34,178	1.54
Jiangxi	2,838	34,055	17.1
Gansu	2,742	32,906	10.6

 

Source: news.xinhuanet.com

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