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 |
