High pay doesn't stretch far in Shanghai, says survey
By Gao Changxin | China Daily | Updated: 2011-02-18 08:15
SHANGHAI - More than half of the residents of this city say they are dissatisfied with their wages, although more than a quarter of them have seen their pay increase in the last year, the city's statistics authority said on Thursday.
In a poll published on Thursday by the Shanghai General Survey under the National Bureau of Statistics, 67.7 percent of the respondents said they are either "dissatisfied" or "very dissatisfied" with their wages. The opinions were collected from 2,531 Shanghai residents.
Twenty-nine percent of the respondents, meanwhile, said their wages increased in 2010, while 50.4 percent said their pay hadn't changed.
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