gato Posted November 24, 2006 at 12:55 PM Report Share Posted November 24, 2006 at 12:55 PM The latest from the China National Statistics Bureau. Note that this is for cities. Rural income would be substantially lower. http://www.stats.gov.cn/tjsj/jdsj/t20061120_402366617.htm http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stats.gov.cn%2Ftjsj%2Fjdsj%2Ft20061120_402366617.htm&langpair=zh-CN%7Cen&hl=zh-CN&newwindow=1&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools Regional urban households income (October 2006) 平均每人月总 地区Region 收入(元) Average income (yuan) 1058.89 全国National ---------------------------------------------------- 1878.32 北京市Beijing 1868.76 上海市Shanghai 1562.17 浙江省Zhejiang 1440.95 广东省Guangdong Province 1291.73 天津市Tianjin 1265.61 江苏省Jiangsu Province 1257.27 福建省Fujian 1145.73 山东省Shandong Province 1033.12 重庆市Chongqing 1010.79 宁夏区Ningxia Region 950.92 河北省Hebei 935.55 辽宁省Liaoning Province 934.29 吉林省Jilin 933.21 云南省Yunnan 927.94 山西省Shanxi 901 湖南省Hunan 893.48 安徽省Anhui 875.06 广西区Guangxi 874.78 内蒙古Inner Mongolia 861.7 河南省Henan 858.88 西藏区Tibet 857.62 湖北省Hubei 848.54 黑龙江Heilongjiang 835.23 青海省Qinghai 830.31 新疆区Xinjiang Region 828.35 四川省Sichuan 820.77 江西省Jiangxi 810.83 陕西省Shaanxi Province 810.77 海南省Hainan Province 781.12 甘肃省Gansu Province 776.76 贵州省Guizhou Province Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quest Posted November 24, 2006 at 04:34 PM Report Share Posted November 24, 2006 at 04:34 PM Since it's "Household Income", I assume the samples included migrant workers and the jobless? because the figures seem a bit low to me. From my limited empirical data, the average "skilled" job certainly pays more than 2k at least. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gato Posted November 25, 2006 at 12:32 AM Author Report Share Posted November 25, 2006 at 12:32 AM The sample does include the jobless. In the original table (see link), it shows the average number employed per household. I'm not sure if it includes the "migrant" workers. If by migrant workers, we mean those working on temporary jobs like in construction, it probably doesn't. average "skilled" job certainly pays more than 2k at least. These "skilled" jobs paying more than 2000 yuan a month are mostly in the wealthier cities like Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Guangzhou, and even there they are still a small part of the overall market. Many people graduating now with a bachelor's degree are having a very difficult time finding jobs paying more than 1000 yuan a month because since 1999, the government has tripled the size of the undergraduate population. Here is a popular story from earlier this year about a recent Beijing University graduate working as a butcher for a living. http://www.southcn.com/nfsq/sqrdgz/200601170166.htm 大学之道 从陆步轩到武小峰 2006-01-17 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiandixia Posted December 7, 2006 at 07:06 PM Report Share Posted December 7, 2006 at 07:06 PM mebody with better Chinese skills does. I looked at the link and got the heading as being about 'household living conditions', not income (poor Chinese skills somebody else please check!). Also it is not discussed here in the forum or on the linked page if the statistics include capital income, guesstimations about the business owners non-reported income, illegal (also non-reporting) businesses like gambling, sexual services, recreational substances etc. If you see a lot of commerce on all levels, luxury homes being built all over the place, fine restaurants and hotels popping up like mushrooms in the rain and average personal income a pittance according to govt. statistics, don't go to eye doctor just yet since the most accurate way to measure avg. income of the population is always to meter their expenditures instead. In America nowadays directors at biggish companies make about 500 times more than their American workers, lawyers (and there must be a million or two of them), bankers, MDs and many other richly paid employees make about ten times more than this average worker. So the American average income (as compared to median) as well as GDP per capita must be way higher than that of the average employee. The same must go for Chinese conditions also. The column that is quoted here is for 'average PERSONAL income' and the column to the right of it 'personal disposable income' was about ten percent lower still. Does that mean after taxes or after bribes;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiandixia Posted December 7, 2006 at 07:40 PM Report Share Posted December 7, 2006 at 07:40 PM "mebody with better Chinese skills does." was just a cut and paste gone wrong and unnoticed :-( Come to think about these averages the old Lake Wobegon where "ALL the children are above average". And still most of them end up in jobs paying less than the said average. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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