Shanghai workers experienced lowest wage growth in a decade

In case you were curious: The average monthly wage for Shanghai workers in 2009 was 3566RMB, an increase of 8.3% from last year's 2008. While the wage still went up, however, it was the lowest average wage growth figure recorded in the last decade. By comparison, last year's wages went up from the year befores by 13.8%, and the year before that it shot up 17.4%. Guess Shanghai wages were also a victim of the recession.