About two out of every five professionals in China expect no pay rise this year after more than half missed out on one last year, with both figures higher than the Asian average, according to survey data gathered by a recruiting firm \u2013 a trend suggesting further pessimism among an already dissatisfied workforce.<\/p>\n
London-based recruitment firm Hays found that 44 per cent of professionals in China \u2013 the highest share anywhere in Asia \u2013 anticipate no salary increase in 2026. Six per cent expect a pay cut, one percentage point higher than the region as a whole, it found.<\/p>\n
The same proportion of Chinese professionals \u2013 44 per cent \u2013 indicated they were \u201cdissatisfied\u201d with their current salary, the firm said in a statement on Wednesday. The figure matched the Asia-wide average.<\/p>\n
Hays found that 51 per cent of professionals in China, compared with 36 per cent across Asia, received no raise last year, while one in 10 saw a pay cut \u2013 both the highest in the region.<\/p>\n
The recruitment firm said this year\u2019s findings, featuring data gathered from 13,000 professionals in Asia, highlight \u201cincreasing dissatisfaction with pay and the influence this is having on mobility sentiment both in China and across the region\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"About two out of every five professionals in China expect no pay rise this year after more than…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[337,114,1657,169750,169753,184,15731,169752,85,46,169754,4863,442,169755,90309,150476,19390,169751,70007],"class_list":["post-347993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-asia","tag-business","tag-china","tag-dissatisfaction","tag-economic-environment","tag-economy","tag-employees","tag-hays","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-job-changes","tag-job-market","tag-london","tag-marc-burrage","tag-pay-cut","tag-pay-rise","tag-professionals","tag-recruitment-firm","tag-salary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}