Jilin Province raise minimum wage average 22.9%

Xinhua Changchun May 4 reporter from the Jilin Province of human Resources and Social Security Department learned that the minimum wage in Jilin Province since May 1 up, adjusted after the Changchun minimum wage of 820 yuan per month, up to 26.2%. It is understood that after the adjustment of Jilin Province, the minimum wage standard is divided into four grades: Changchun monthly minimum wage of 820 yuan/month, part-time employment hour minimum wage standard 6.3 yuan/hour, Jilin, Songyuan District and Yanji monthly minimum wage 780 yuan/month, part-time employment hours minimum wage standard 6 yuan/hour　　; Siping, Liaoyuan, Tonghua, Baishan, Baicheng District and Huichun monthly minimum wage standard 730 yuan/month, part-time employment hour minimum wage standard 5.6 yuan/hour; Changbai Mountain Management Committee and other counties (city) monthly minimum wage standard 680 yuan/month, part-time employment hours minimum wage of 5.2 yuan/hour.　　It is reported that earlier, the relevant departments in Jilin Province in accordance with the proportion of the law and income ratio method of the minimum wage in the province to calculate, and reference to other provinces and cities to adjust the minimum wage standards, combined with the provincial enterprises, financial affordability and the level of economic and social development around the comprehensive factors formulated a Jilin Province has been implementing the minimum wage guarantee system since 1995, and has adjusted the minimum wage six times between 1996 and 2007. The seventh adjustment of the minimum wage in Jilin Province, the adjustment range of four grades between 20% to 26.2%, the average growth rate of 22.9%, than the current adjustment of the minimum wage of 8 provinces, cities, the average growth rate of 6%.