Table 3 Percent of workers who do not receive legally-mandated overtime pay
From: Compliance with legal minimum wages and overtime pay regulations in China
| Percent of overtime workers | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Percent of all workers who worked overtime hours | Not paid for overtime work | Whose hourly overtime pay is smaller than 1.5 times regular wage | Whose hourly overtime pay is smaller than 1.5 times hourly minimum wage | |
| All | 41.3 | 28.6 | 69.5 | 41.2 |
| Gender | ||||
| Male | 41.4 | 29.2 | 71.7 | 41.5 |
| Female | 41.1 | 27.3 | 66.2 | 40.9 |
| Educational attainment | ||||
| College or above | 26.6 | 36.5 | 81.2 | 46.2 |
| Junior college | 34.1 | 36.4 | 77.4 | 46.6 |
| High school | 42.3 | 27.7 | 68.6 | 40.2 |
| Junior high school or below | 48.9 | 24.9 | 65.6 | 39.7 |
| Age cohort | ||||
| age 16–20 | 58 | 16.9 | 60.7 | 35.0 |
| age 21–25 | 43.7 | 23.8 | 68.2 | 38.9 |
| age 26–30 | 40.9 | 26.7 | 69.2 | 39.6 |
| age 31+ | 39.4 | 32.0 | 71.1 | 43.1 |
| Experience cohort | ||||
| Experience 1–3 | 49.8 | 25.3 | 68.7 | 42.0 |
| Experience 4–6 | 41.3 | 23.5 | 67.1 | 36.6 |
| Experience 7–9 | 41.7 | 28.3 | 69.1 | 40.0 |
| Experience 10+ | 36.4 | 32.7 | 71.2 | 42.6 |
| Position in firm | ||||
| Office work | 32.4 | 35.5 | 75.6 | 50.0 |
| Manual worker with junior skill certificate | 42.0 | 29.8 | 69.5 | 42.1 |
| Manual worker with no skill certificate | 47.0 | 23.2 | 65.5 | 36.8 |
| Others | 37.1 | 33.7 | 73.9 | 45.0 |
| Firm ownership | ||||
| State funded firm | 31.7 | 25.2 | 71.6 | 40.1 |
| Non-state domestic funded firm | 37.1 | 38.3 | 72.5 | 49.3 |
| Hong-Kong, Taiwan or Macao funded firm | 64.4 | 15.8 | 62.6 | 36.0 |
| Foreign funded firm | 53.6 | 12.9 | 65.1 | 24.1 |
| Firm size | ||||
| Large | 39.6 | 24.7 | 65.7 | 37.4 |
| Medium | 42.3 | 26.7 | 66.9 | 38.1 |
| Small | 41.5 | 35.4 | 77.6 | 50.8 |
| Ascending sort by firm revenue per worker | ||||
| The first quintile | 41.4 | 33.6 | 69.6 | 44.9 |
| The second quintile | 42.4 | 39.4 | 73.6 | 49.5 |
| The third quintile | 50.6 | 26.1 | 70.4 | 45.3 |
| The fourth quintile | 32.8 | 22.0 | 70.1 | 33.8 |
| The fifth quintile | 38.5 | 24.7 | 63.6 | 31.4 |
| Industry sectors | ||||
| Apparel and textile products manufacturing | 50.4 | 23.8 | 64.9 | 33.9 |
| Communications equipment and computer manufacturing other electronic equipment | 62.8 | 13.7 | 65.0 | 30.9 |
| Other manufacturing | 45.2 | 33.2 | 70.4 | 48.0 |
| Electricity, gas and water production | 30.6 | 29.4 | 71.6 | 40.2 |
| Construction | 27.5 | 44.7 | 89.1 | 53.1 |
| Transportation, storage and post | 42.2 | 13.3 | 69.2 | 17.5 |
| Wholesale and retail trade(commerce) | 21.4 | 22.0 | 58.4 | 29.9 |
| Financial service | 22.7 | 24.2 | 67.4 | 30.4 |
| Region | ||||
| Beijing | 34.2 | 20.2 | 64.3 | 28.4 |
| Jiangsu | 52.1 | 18.8 | 71.8 | 30.3 |
| Shandong | 33.5 | 49.0 | 76.1 | 65.1 |
| Hubei | 30.6 | 32.7 | 69.3 | 37.6 |
| Guangdong | 59.9 | 17.9 | 58.3 | 40.6 |
| Shaanxi | 43.6 | 56.7 | 73.2 | 58.3 |
