Average Salaries in China Rise at Weakest Pace in Over a Decade

Employees in China’s non-private sector earned around 75% more than people working for private-sector companies last year, and information technology held the top spot as the highest-paying industry, reports released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) Tuesday show.

The average salary of an urban non-private sector worker in 2022 was 114,029 yuan ($16,953) compared with an average 65,237 yuan for a private sector worker, NBS data show, a gap that’s been widening since 2008.