China: average annual salary of an employee by region 2021

This statistic shows the average annual salary of an employee in a non-private organization in urban China in 2021, by region. In 2021, an employee in the urban regions of the Chinese Jiangsu province earned around 115,100 yuan per annum on average. The national average reached about 106,800 yuan in 2021. Aside from regional discrepancies, the respective industry had a large influence on the average annual salary of employees in urban China. Employees in the IT sector of China earned about 201,500 yuan on average, whereas people employed in the agricultural sector had an average annual salary of about 53,800 yuan in 2021.

Average annual income of employees working for urban non-private units in China in 2021, by region (in yuan)

Characteristic	Average annual salary in yuan
Beijing	194,651
Shanghai	191,844
Tibet	140,355
Tianjin	123,528
Zhejiang	122,309
Guangdong	118,133
Jiangsu	115,133
Qinghai	109,346
Average	106,837
Ningxia	105,266
Chongqing	101,670
Yunnan	98,730
Fujian	98,071
Hainan	97,471
Hubei	96,994
Sichuan	96,741
Shandong	94,768
Guizhou	94,487
Xinjiang	94,281
Anhui	93,861
Shaanxi	90,996
Inner Mongolia	90,426
Guangxi	88,170
Liaoning	86,062
Hunan	85,438
Gansu	84,500
Jiangxi	83,766
Jilin	83,028
Hebei	82,526
Shanxi	82,413
Heilongjiang	80,369
Henan	74,872

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Release date

October 2022

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China

Survey time period

2021

Supplementary notes

One yuan equals approximately 0.14 U.S. dollars and 0.14 euros (as of December 2022).

According to the source, the data refer to employees in cities and non-private organizations only. Non-private organizations 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.

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