According to the website of Baoji Municipal People's Government:

? The annual average wage of employed persons in non-private units in Baoji City was 51,475 yuan in 2016

In 2016, the annual average wage of employed persons in non-private units in Baoji City was 51,475 yuan, an increase of 3,589 yuan, or a year-on-year nominal increase of 7.7%, compared with 47,886 yuan in 2015. Among them, the annual average wage of on-the-job employees was RMB53,366, a nominal increase of 8.0% year-on-year, a decrease of 1.2 percentage points from the previous year. Deducting the price factor, the annual average wage of employed persons in the non-private sector in Baoji City increased by 5.1% in real terms in 2016.

Divided into industry categories, there were eight industries in which the annual average wage of employed persons was higher than the city's average wage. The three industries with the highest average annual wages were the financial sector, 81,496 yuan, 1.58 times the city's average; the information transmission, software and information technology services industry, 72,680 yuan, 1.41 times the city's average; and the electricity, heat, gas and water production and supply industry, 69,565 yuan, 1.35 times the city's average. The three industries with the lowest annual average wages were accommodation and catering industry 31,711 yuan, 61.6% of the city's average water; wholesale and retail trade 33,950 yuan, 66.0% of the city's average water; and real estate industry 37,174 yuan, 72.2% of the city's average, and the ratio of the average wages of the highest to the lowest industry was 2.57:1, compared with the gap of 2.70:1 in 2015, the gap has been narrowed.

Notes:

1. Explanation of Indicators

(1) Employed Persons in Units: refers to persons working in various types of legal entities and paid for their labor by the entities, including on-the-job workers, labor dispatch and other employed persons.

In-service workers refer to those who work in their own units and have signed labor contracts with their own units, and are paid by their units for various wages, social insurance and housing provident funds, as well as those of the above who do not work for the time being due to reasons such as study, sickness, injury and maternity leave, etc., and are still paid by their units. In order to accurately reflect the employment situation in the industry, from 2011 onwards, the labor dispatchers among the employed workers have been counted separately.

Other employees refer to those who actually participate in the production or work of the unit and receive labor remuneration from the unit, in addition to the on-the-job employees. Specifically, they include: part-time workers, employed regular retired workers, part-time workers and second jobbers, as well as foreign, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan personnel working in the unit.

(2) Total Wages: According to the Provisions on the Composition of Total Wages, total wages are the total amount of labor remuneration paid directly to the personnel of the unit during the reporting period (quarterly or annually). It includes hourly wages, piece-rate wages, bonuses, allowances and subsidies, overtime and overtime wages, and wages paid under special circumstances.

Total wages are pre-tax wages, including housing fees, personal income tax, water charges, electricity charges, housing provident fund and individual contributions to the social insurance fund, etc., which the unit directly withholds or pays for the individual from his or her wages, excluding deductions in the case of sick leave, personal leave, and so on.

Total wages shall be included in the calculation of total wages whether they are costed or non-costed, and whether they are paid in money or in kind.

(3) Average wages: refers to the per capita level of wages paid by the unit during the reporting period. The formula is:

Average Wage=Total Employee Wages/Average Number of Employees

2. Scope of Statistics

All non-private legal entities in urban areas, specifically including state-owned units, urban collective units, joint-venture economy, joint-stock economy, foreign-invested economy, and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan-invested economy, and other units. Wage statistics is to count the employed persons in the units, while the self-employed persons, freelancers and other non-unit employed persons are not included in the scope of wage statistics.

3. Survey Methods

According to the "Enterprise Set of Tables Statistical Survey System" and the "Labor Wage Statistical Survey System" formulated by the National Bureau of Statistics, and in accordance with the principle of "first in the library, then in the numbers", the wage statistics of urban non-private units adopt the method of a comprehensive survey.

4. Industry Classification Standards

The industry classification standards for wage statistics are implemented in accordance with the National Economic Industry Classification (GB/T4754-2011).

References

The average annual wage of employed persons in non-private units in Baoji City in 2016 was 51,475 yuan. Baoji Municipal People's Government Website[cited 2018-1-18]