China to examine payrolls of state company staff amid complaints

BEIJING, Oct. 28 (Chinese media) -- Starting this year, China would carry out an

annual survey on payrolls of staff with 146 centrally-administered state owned

enterprises (SOEs) amid public complaints that they were getting unreasonably

high pay, the state assets watchdog has said.

The State-owned Assets Supervision and Management Commission (SASAC) said

it would gather the salary information on general posts such as accounting,

administration and IT support.

The survey would cover employees in the SOEs' headquarters and secondary

subsidiaries. The 146 SOEs were required to report the information to the SASAC

before Dec. 20. Results of the survey would be publicized within these SOEs

later.

The SASAC did not say when the results would be publicized to the general

public.

There have been complaints on high incomes of SOE employees, garnered from

profits made from government subsidies, unilaterally-imposed fees and charges,

and substandard services.