Can The 27 Provinces Survive The Crisis After Raising Workers' Wages?

Yesterday, Qinghai announced that it will adjust the minimum wage standard in September 1st and become the twenty-seventh province to raise the minimum wage this year.

Since February 1st, Jiangsu has taken the lead in raising the minimum wage. It has passed six months. The 31 provinces, including Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, have already adjusted 27 minimum wage standards. Only Gansu, Guangxi, Guizhou and Chongqing did not announce the minimum wage adjustment plan.

Among them, the highest monthly minimum wage in Shanghai is 1120 yuan, the highest minimum wage in Beijing is 11 yuan, and the average minimum wage in Hainan is 37%, ranking the first in the country.

Hainan, Sichuan and Tibet increased by 30%.

According to human resources and society

With the improvement of the economic situation, the most developed coastal areas such as Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai have been adjusting the minimum wage since February of this year.

Jin Xin, director of the Labor Relations Department of the Jiangsu Office of human resources and social security, said:

According to statistics from public sources, at least 20 provinces have increased by more than 20%, especially in the underdeveloped areas of the central and Eastern and eastern regions, while Hainan, Sichuan, Tibet and other places have increased by 30%.

Minimum wage in eastern region

Judging from the minimum wage, the eastern region is still in a leading position.

Among them, Shanghai and Guangdong Guangzhou, Zhejiang Hangzhou and other places the minimum wage is more than 1000 yuan.

Judging from the adjustment frequency, the adjustment of the developed areas is relatively frequent. Shanghai is the seventeenth adjustment this year. In addition to 2009, the minimum wage standard is adjusted annually.

Tianjin has been raised for the 14 time, Shenzhen has increased 18 times, while the rest of the region has been maintained at 5 to 7 times, basically adjusting every two years.

Shanghai's seventeenth minimum adjustment

Since April 1st this year, Shanghai's monthly minimum wage has been raised from 960 yuan to 1120 yuan, and the minimum wage standard has been adjusted from 8 yuan to 9 yuan.

Since the minimum wage system was established in Shanghai in 1993, this year is the seventeenth adjustment except for the adjustment in 2009.

This year, the minimum wage standard has been adjusted to 16.7%, and the increase is relatively large.

Shanghai ranks first in the national minimum wage standard with a salary of 1120 yuan. For this reason, Sun Jun Yi, Secretary of the Specialized Committee of the China Labor Association, thinks that the per capita GDP in Shanghai is at a relatively high level in the whole country, and the level of consumer price is high. At the same time, the local average social capital is one of the highest in the country. According to the regulations, the determination and adjustment of the minimum wage standard should refer to many factors such as the minimum living expenses of the local employed persons and their supporting population, the urban consumer price index, the average wage of the workers, the level of economic development and the employment situation, so Shanghai should be at the forefront.

Guangdong has attracted the highest number of workers in recent years.

Since May 1st, Guangdong province has raised the minimum wage standard for the staff and workers of the province, and raised the minimum wage standard for part-time workers, with an average increase of more than 21.1%, according to local media.

After adjustment, the minimum wage standard for workers and staff members in Guangdong and the minimum wage for part-time workers are five grades.

Among them, Guangzhou implemented the highest first class standard, 1030 yuan / month, an increase of 19.8%, the corresponding part-time workers minimum wage standard is 9.9 yuan / hour; second class standard is 920 yuan / month, an increase of 19.5%, the implementation area is the Pearl River Delta region Zhuhai, Foshan, Dongguan, Zhongshan, the corresponding part-time workers minimum wage standard is 8.8 yuan / hour.

"Because the whole base is relatively low, so even if the increase is 20%, the difference between the actual level is not too great. The key is to see the level adjusted." Sun Qunyi believes that the adjustment in Guangdong will not exclude the factors to keep the workers from such places as Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other places. However, the minimum wage standard is gradually converging, and the minimum wage standard in the same economic development level is getting closer.

On the other hand, the central and western regions are also raising wage standards. Sun Qunyi said that the minimum wage standard is bidirectional. The local government needs to find a balance between laborers and investors, which can attract labor and retain investors, which is very critical.

Hainan's growth rate ranked 37% in the country's first {page_break}

Hainan province has raised the minimum wage standard by 200 yuan from July 1st this year. It has been adjusted as follows: the monthly minimum wage standard of 830 yuan in a region and the minimum wage standard of 7.2 yuan per hour, which is applicable to Haikou, Sanya and Yangpu Economic Development Zones; the minimum monthly wage standard in the two categories is 730 yuan, the minimum wage standard is 6.3 yuan, which is applicable to Qionghai and Danzhou; the three monthly minimum wage standard is 680 yuan, and the minimum wage standard is 5.9 yuan, which is applicable to other cities and counties except one or two areas.

After this adjustment, a class of regions increased by 31.7%, and the three types of regions increased by 41.7%, with an average increase of 37%, ranking the first in the country.

For the first place of the national minimum wage standard increase in Hainan, Sun Qunyi pointed out that, first of all, Hainan's minimum wage standard was low, and even more than 30% of the increase was only 830 yuan.

With such a high growth rate in Hainan, the central government has approved the construction plan of Hainan international tourism island, and there are more capital flows in all aspects, resulting in a relatively rapid rise in prices. Hainan's adjustment is also considering these factors.

But Sun Qunyi also said that because the minimum wage standard is not high enough, there is no obvious difference in the adjusted amount.

In most areas, the minimum wage rose by more than 20%.

Throughout the year, the minimum wage has been adjusted in various places, and the largest increase has been seen in many places such as Shanghai and Guangdong.

According to the published data, whether Beijing, Hebei, Liaoning, Fujian, Shandong, Guangdong and Hainan, or Anhui, Jiangxi, Henan, Henan and Henan in the central part of the country, as well as the areas such as ",", ",", ",", ",", "and", the increase of this adjustment is over 20%.

Sun Qunyi, the Specialized Committee Secretary General of the China Labor Association, said that the minimum wage standard was adjusted in 2007 and 2008. According to the minimum wage requirement, it should be adjusted at least two years, and the minimum wage should have 40% to 60% of the average wage.

He believes that due to last year's financial crisis, the employees of the enterprises were "holding together for heating", and the provinces basically did not adjust the minimum wage standard.

This year's economic situation is good. Relatively speaking, the minimum wage standard is relatively low. There are many voices in the community that want to speed up the wage adjustment. At the beginning of this year, President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao repeatedly raised the income level of low-income people.

So this adjustment is a resumption of growth, "that is, not to increase last year".

Sun Qunyi mentioned that this is also a process of "returning" to the minimum wage and "reaching the level that should be achieved".

For the 20% increase, Sun Qunyi thought it was not surprising. According to the documents, the increase of minimum wage standard is also related to factors such as the rapid increase of GDP.

Sun Qunyi reminds us that the proportion of growth can certainly be seen, but more importantly, the result is that since the minimum wage level in China has been at a low level, even if the growth rate is 20%, it will not be reflected in the final amount.