Table 9 Descriptive statistics
From: Compliance with legal minimum wages and overtime pay regulations in China
Variables | Number of obs | Mean | Min | Max |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Personal level variables | ||||
 Wages | ||||
  Mean monthly total wage (yuan) | 521501 | 2657 | 320 | 82000 |
  Mean monthly basic wage (yuan) | 521501 | 1592 | 0 | 82000 |
  Mean monthly bonus (yuan) | 521501 | 682 | 0 | 75438 |
  Mean monthly supplements (yuan) | 521501 | 199 | 0 | 67035 |
  Mean monthly overtime pay (yuan) | 521501 | 185 | 0 | 29042 |
 Gender | ||||
  Proportion female | 521501 | 0.395 | 0 | 1 |
Educational attainment (proportion or workers at each level) | ||||
  College or above | 521501 | 0.109 | 0 | 1 |
  Junior college | 521501 | 0.164 | 0 | 1 |
  High school | 521501 | 0.420 | 0 | 1 |
  Junior high school or below | 521501 | 0.306 | 0 | 1 |
 Age (mean) | 521501 | 34 | 16 | 65 |
 Experience (mean) | 521501 | 12 | 1 | 50 |
  Position in firm (proportion of workers at each level) | ||||
   Office work | 521501 | 0.103 | 0 | 1 |
   Manual worker with junior skill certificate | 521501 | 0.141 | 0 | 1 |
   Manual worker with no skill certificate | 521501 | 0.402 | 0 | 1 |
   Others | 521501 | 0.354 | 0 | 1 |
 Industry sectors | ||||
  Apparel and textile products manufacturing | 521501 | 0.082 | 0 | 1 |
  Communications equipment, computer manufacturing | 521501 | 0.069 | 0 | 1 |
  Other manufacturing | 521501 | 0.508 | 0 | 1 |
  Electricity, gas and water production | 521501 | 0.051 | 0 | 1 |
  Construction | 521501 | 0.085 | 0 | 1 |
  Transportation, storage and post | 521501 | 0.073 | 0 | 1 |
  Wholesale and retail trade(commerce) | 521501 | 0.106 | 0 | 1 |
  Financial service | 521501 | 0.026 | 0 | 1 |
Firm level variables | ||||
 Mean yearly average number of employees | 2835 | 361 | 1 | 41500 |
 Firm ownership (proportion of firms) | ||||
   State funded firm | 2835 | 0.095 | 0 | 1 |
   Non-state domestic funded firm | 2835 | 0.708 | 0 | 1 |
   HongKong, Taiwan, Macao funded firm | 2835 | 0.075 | 0 | 1 |
   Foreign funded firm | 2835 | 0.122 | 0 | 1 |
 Firm size (proportion of firms) | ||||
   Large | 2835 | 0.057 | 0 | 1 |
   Medium | 2835 | 0.230 | 0 | 1 |
   Small | 2835 | 0.713 | 0 | 1 |
 Firm revenue per worker (mean)(unit:10,000yuan) | 2835 | 114.98 | 0.02 | 12649 |
 Proportion of labor cost to total expenditure (mean) | 2835 | 0.224 | 0 | 1 |
 Other labor cost to wage expenditure (mean) | 2835 | 0.415 | 0 | 1 |
 Firm profit per worker (mean)(unit:10,000yuan) | 2835 | 3.980 | −20 | 100 |
 Industry sectors | ||||
   Apparel and textile products manufacturing | 2835 | 0.058 | 0 | 1 |
   Communications equipment, computer manufacturing | 2835 | 0.066 | 0 | 1 |
   Other manufacturing | 2835 | 0.403 | 0 | 1 |
   Electricity, gas and water production | 2835 | 0.042 | 0 | 1 |
   Construction | 2835 | 0.129 | 0 | 1 |
   Transportation, storage and post | 2835 | 0.053 | 0 | 1 |
   Wholesale and retail trade(commerce) | 2835 | 0.217 | 0 | 1 |
   Financial service | 2835 | 0.033 | 0 | 1 |
Region(County level)variables | ||||
   Monthly minimum wage | 249 | 655 | 450 | 1000 |
   Yearly lowest living cost | 249 | 3147 | 1680 | 4980 |
   County level average wage | 249 | 25181 | 3842 | 93009 |
   County level GDP per capita | 249 | 44380 | 6526 | 255346 |