In today's world, about 90% of countries have implemented some form of minimum wage law. In 1938, Democratic President Roosevelt introduced the minimum wage law in the "New Deal" in response to the Great Depression. The United Kingdom implemented a national minimum wage law in 1998, and the German minimum wage law came into effect in 2015. China began to implement the "Minimum Wage Regulations" in 2004, and the minimum wage standards in various provinces have been continuously increased since then.

  2021 Nobel Prize in Economics, half was awarded to David Card, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and the other half was awarded to Joshua D. Angrist, Ford Professor of Economics at MIT, and Guido W. Imbens, a professor at Stanford University. Among them, Card's contribution lies in his "empirical contribution to labor economics" and won the award. His most influential research is the article in which Card and Krugman challenged the traditional view that the minimum wage law has a "destructive" impact on employment through natural experiments.

  The minimum wage guarantee system is a labor and social security system in my country. Article 48 of my country's "Labor Law" stipulates that the state implements a minimum wage guarantee system, that is, the wages paid by employers to workers shall not be lower than the local minimum wage standard. The people's governments of all provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the central government in mainland China have officially promulgated and implemented local minimum wage standards.

  The factors that need to be considered in determining the minimum wage standard include: local urban residents' living expenses, employees' personal social insurance premiums, housing provident funds, employees' average wages, unemployment rate, economic development level, etc., and the local government will adjust it every year as relevant factors change. Therefore, the economic development level, employment situation, and changing trends of relevant factors in various regions can be glimpsed from the minimum wage data of various regions.

  CnOpenData data team launched the minimum wage data database of each region, including the minimum wage classification standards, amounts and adjustment dates of each district and county.

Time interval

Minimum wage classification standards of each district and county: 1999.06.01-2023.03.01
Minimum wage amount of each district and county: 1999.07.01-2023.03.01

Field display

Minimum wage classification standards of each district and county

Minimum wage amount in each district and county

Sample data

Division standards for minimum wages in various districts and counties

Minimum wage amount in each district and county

Related literature

• Ma Shuang, Xiao Han, Li Ding, Zhang Peng, 2023: "Minimum Wage and Heterogeneous Human Capital Demand: A Study Based on Recruitment Website Data", World Economy, No. 12.
• Wang Huanhuan, Hu Dongmin, Zhang Ji, 2022: "Minimum Wage System, Labor Contract Term and Enterprise Employment Form", Economics (Quarterly), No. 4.
• Qing Tao, Huang Xianhai, 2022: "Minimum Wage and Enterprise Technological Progress Path - Technology Introduction or Independent Innovation", Economic Dynamics, No. 8.
• Xie Jie, Guo Chongyang, Chen Kejie, Guo Jia, 2022: "Minimum Wage, Industrial Automation and Skill Premium", China Industrial Economy, No. 9.
• Decio Coviello, Erika Deserranno, and Nicola Persico. 2022, "Minimum Wage and Individual Worker Productivity: Evidence from a Large US Retailer", Journal of Political Economy.

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