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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