Salaries of private enterprises to be incorporated into NBS statistics

The National Bureau of Statistics of China (NBS) disclosed Tuesday that the bureau will set up an annual sample survey system on the salaries of employees of private enterprises and incorporate the statistics into NBS's scope of statistics inquiry.

Previously, the average salary statistics by the NBS only covered figures from economic entities, including State-owned enterprises, urban collective-owned enterprises, joint-stock companies, foreign-invested enterprises and enterprises with investment from Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan. However, about 60 million employees from private enterprises and around 50 million individually-owned business and flexibly employed persons are not included in the survey.

According to the statistics, the average salaries of employees in private enterprises in urban and rural areas in 2008 should be 17,071 yuan a year, but under the previous survey system, the average salaries of employees from enterprises in urban and rural areas were as high as 29,229 yuan in NBS's annual report.
 
After the figure was released, many employees from private enterprises complained that their salaries were not that high and feel that their salaries have "been increased".

In a previous briefing on August 6, Feng Nailin, an official from NBS pointed out that China's survey scope of the salaries of private employees is too narrow and needs to be improved.

But the NBS did not release the average salaries for this year after the salaries of employees from private enterprises were included Tuesday.
 

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