Chinanews client, Beijing, May 19th (Reporter Li Jinlei) The National Bureau of Statistics released on the 19th the average salary data for 2020, showing that the average annual salary of employees in urban non-private units nationwide in 2020 will be 97379 yuan. The average annual salary of employees in units is 57,727 yuan.
Meng Canwen, deputy director of the Population and Employment Statistics Department of the National Bureau of Statistics, explained that the average wages of employees in urban units are calculated for legal entities, excluding individual industrial and commercial households and freelancers, and reflect pre-tax wages, including individual wages from units The personal income tax, social insurance fund and housing provident fund withheld and paid by the agent.
Therefore, the published average salary is higher than the salary actually received by the individual.
At the same time, due to the different industries, regions and economic benefits of each unit, as well as the different positions of individuals, the wage level varies.
In fact, wages generally present a positive skew distribution, and the average value is often higher than the average level, that is, most individual data are lower than the average value.
Therefore, to understand the wage gap and changes more accurately, it is necessary not only to look at the overall average data, but also to combine more detailed wage data by region, industry, and job for specific analysis.