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"Sunning" salaries

(CRI)
Updated: 2007-01-30 09:45



Many people consider their salary, just like their age, a very personal
secret. But perhaps this kind of thinking is outdated. For many, it
seems, are now willing to disclose their salary on the Internet, a
process known among netizens as "sunning your salary slip".

The Beijing Daily reports that with Spring Festival approaching, this
'sunning' is being applied to the end-of-year bonus.

Indeed, "Salary Slips" has become one of the top key words on China's
largest search engine, Baidu.com.

Domestic portal website Sohu.com recently undertook a survey entitled: A
Complete Dictionary of Salaries among China's Industries, collecting
salary slips for their website. According to Sohu's statistics, the
top-five clicks are for: education, the oil and chemical industry, the
postal service, the government sector and banking.

The trend perhaps started with A Yi, an Assistant Professor at the
prestigious Peking University. In his online weblog, he made it clear
that his monthly salary of 4,768 yuan (US$601) was not enough. He also
claimed that there would be no way for him to make a living except for
getting part-time jobs.

Miao Liping, an employee of a public relations company, has changed
several jobs after her graduation in 2003. She disclosed her salary on
the Internet when starting her new job. She told the Beijing Daily
reporter that those who raise the topic have different purposes for doing
so. Some just want to boast, while some wish to complain about their
salaries. Others need to learn of others' salaries as part of the process
of job-hopping.

As Hu Deng, Consultant with the Psychological Science Research Center of
Renmin University, says, people like to surf salary details either to
find out their social position, or simply out of curiosity. Furthermore,
he claims, we had better keep our minds calm, whatever we read.










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