Wealthy Provinces Slash Civil Servant Pay Amid Budget Crunches

Many civil servants in several wealthy Chinese provinces will have their annual incomes cut by 20% to 30% this year, Caixin learned, as local governments face fiscal pressure amid the pandemic.

A civil servant’s annual income consists of 12-month salaries, allowances, subsidies and bonuses, according to the country’s civil service law. But since January, authorities in several provinces, including Guangdong, Zhejiang and Jiangsu, asked local state-owned and state-backed institutions to stop paying year-end special bonuses and allowances.