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Q: What's the minimum salary you can accept while choosing a job in China?
Let's put the kinds of jobs aside,what's the minimum salary you can accept while choosing a job in China?No offense,i am just curious.
11 years 36 weeks ago in Business & Jobs - China
15k, a nice apartment w/ a furnished study, combined with other suitable fringe benefits, and I might whistfully consider the offer for a few seconds.
1kuai, if it involves unlimited free sex, unlimited food, unlimited alcohol and free passes to all places of entertainment, unlimited use of the best hotels all costs paid, and perhaps advance notification of all laws being amended in China!
I had a nightmare a few weeks ago about going home and then getting promoted. Part of the promotion involved relocating to China. To make sure they wouldn't send me I kept asking for better sweeteners; the more they agreed to the more ludicrous my demands. In the end I settled for unlimited free flights for friends and family into/out of China, 12 weeks paid holiday, an Italian chef, chaffeur, country house, helicopter, butler, bottled air from the Scottish highlands and $1million per month for a one year contract.
Scandinavian:
...but, do you expect the Italian chef to make decent burgers?
10k is lowest I could go.
2,600rmb for rent and then after that I can typically get by on 3,00rmb or less a month. I like to put the rest into savings.
I was paid 5,000 RMB a month for my first job there, but I would want to be paid at least 6,000 if I were ever to work there again.
Salary depends upon region, I t hink. I have friends who worked in the hinterlands who made RMB 7,000 - RMB 8,000 and then when the contract was over landed jobs in Shanghai and in Beijing where they are making RMB 20,000 - RMB 25,000 per month, with a Shanghai-and-Beijing cost factor involved.
A poster above wrote that the legal minimum salary is RMB 4,000 per month; I beg to differ. There are still university jobs in Yunnan and in Hainan that are snapped up by the laowai for less than RMB 3,500 per month. Go figure it out! How can anyone live on RMB 3,500 per month.
I recently learned that many of the day workers in China earn RMB 5,000 per month in a good month and that the taxi drivers earn more.
AdamE:
Yeah I've also heard Chinese taxi drivers make pretty decent money. Know a Chinese guy right now learning to get his drivers license because I think he wants to start driving people around.
Jnusb416:
How can anyone live on 3,500 RMB? Well, a foreigner certainly can, since their apartment is usually paid for, and they really only need to pay for food and other necessities. If they can't survive on that, they're spending too much money in my opinion (unless they go traveling a lot). I didn't particularly like to go shopping, so I spent less than 1,000 RMB a month, mostly on food. As for locals, they earn less than 3,500 RMB and tend to survive.
Scandinavian:
many of the low-paid jobs include a place to stay, and most meals. E.g. restaurants would have employees sharing apartments close by their place of work, food supplied by the restaurant. So the basic salary is just "fun money"
75K a month, plus housing
CharlieB:
Why the thumbs down? Why would I work here for less than what I can earn in the U S.
Don't be a hater
