A new list of Chinese cities ranked on the basis of minimum wage levels indicates that Shanghai and Tianjin provide the highest remuneration floor to local workers.
Following adjustments by local authorities in the first half of 2017, Zhongxin Jingwei Kehu Duan (中新经纬客户端) (“jwview” on WeChat) has published a ranking of the minimum wage levels of 31 of China’s municipalities and provinces as of 15 July.
Shanghai and Tianjin took first and second place on the list, with monthly minimum wages of 2,300 (approx. USD$339.00) and 2,050 yuan ($302.18) respectively, while Beijing came in third with a monthly minimum wage of 2,000 yuan ($295).
Guangxi province and Tibet came in last, both providing a monthly minimum wage of 1,400 yuan ($206).
China Cities and Provinces Ranked by Minimum Monthly Wage Following 2017 Adjustments
- Shanghai: 2,300 yuan
- Tianjin: 2,050 yuan
- Beijing: 2,000 yuan
- Guangdong: 1,895 yuan
- Jiangsu: 1,890 yuan
- Zhejiang: 1,860 yuan
- Shandong: 1,810 yuan
- Fujian: 1,700 yuan
- Shaanxi: 1,680 yuan
- Guizhou: 1,680 yuan
- Xinjiang: 1,670 yuan
- Hebei: 1,650 yuan
- Inner Mongolia: 1,650 yuan
- Gansu: 1,620 yuan
- Shanxi: 1,620 yuan
- Henan: 1,600 yuan
- Hunan: 1,580 yuan
- Yunnan: 1,570 yuan
- Hubei: 1,550 yuan
- Jiangxi: 1,530 yuan
- Liaoning: 1,530 yuan
- Anhui: 1,520 yuan
- Qinghai: 1,500 yuan
- Chongqing: 1,500 yuan
- Sichuan: 1,500 yuan
- Heilongjiang: 1,480 yuan
- Ningxia: 1,480 yuan
- Jilin: 1,480 yuan
- Hainan: 1,430 yuan
- Tibet: 1,400 yuan
- Guangxi: 1,400 yuan.
On 1 April of this year Shanghai kicked off the latest round of minimum wage increases in China with a hike of 110 yuan from 2,190 yuan to 2,300 yuan.
Following a raft of minimum wage hikes in cities and provinces across China, Beijing’s local government announced on 13 July that it would raise its minimum wage to 2,000 yuan from 1,890 yuan starting in September this year.
