China: average salary of urban employees 2024| Statista

Average annual salary of employees working for urban non-private units* in China from 2014 to 2024 (in yuan)

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Release date

May 2025

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Region

China

Survey time period

2014 to 2024

Supplementary notes

* Non-private units mainly include state-owned units, collective-owned units, cooperative units, joint ownership units, limited liability corporations, share-holding corporations, units funded from Hong Kong and Taiwan, and foreign funded units.

Employees of urban companies that are owned or controlled by natural persons, as well as self-employed people are not included in the figures.

One yuan equals approximately 0.14 U.S. dollars and 0.12 euros (as of May 2025).

Figures for earlier years have been taken from previous publications.

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In 2024, an employee working for a not privately held company or organization in urban areas of China earned around ******* yuan annually on average. That year, the year-on-year growth rate of the average salary ranged at *** percent nominally and *** percent real.

Regional differences in salary levels

Salary levels in urban China have seen a significant rise between 2014 and 2024. During that period, average annual salaries of employees in non-private urban units have grown from around ****** to ******* yuan per year. Yet as of 2023, large income disparities still existed between different regions in China. While employees in Shanghai enjoyed the highest annual salaries on average, Henan province in central China displayed the lowest average annual salaries. Regions with lower income levels are mainly located in central China or in the former centers of steel and heavy industry in Northeast China, whereas the coastal regions and municipalities in general still provide comparatively higher salaries.

Occupational salary differences

Moreover, a considerable salary discrepancy exists between different occupational groups in China. As of 2023, people working in IT services were atop the list earning about ******* yuan per year on average, whereas people in the financial service sector reached approximately ******* yuan. The hotels and catering sector ranked at the lower end with an average annual salary of around ****** yuan.