An average pay rise of 8.8 percent is expected for company employees in China next year, according to a survey released on Sunday by 51job.com, China's leading jobs website.
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Some 17.3 percent of the surveyed companies plan to increase pay for their staff at least once next year, a slight dip compared with the figure in 2013, the survey revealed, adding that 74.9 percent chose to increase pay only once in 2014.
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The financial industry will lead other industries with a 10.4-percent pay rise in the year, followed by the real-estate, high-technology and bio-pharmaceutical industries, the survey added.
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More industries will benefit from the decision on "comprehensively deepening reform," which was announced after a plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in November, according to the report.
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It also showed salaries of companies based in the country's first-tier cities such as Beijing and Shanghai will increase by 8.6Â percent year on year, and those in other cities will see a 9-percent rise.