最近看了两则新鲜出炉的媒体报道,直纳闷。一则说,据统计,2003年北京市城镇单位在岗职工年平均工资为25312元,比上年增加3460元,增长15.8%。另一则说,据调查,北京2003年的年薪平均值为43728元,比上年下降了600多元,降幅为12%。这两则新闻的说词大不相同,究竟是怎么回事?我们的工资是涨了还是跌了?细细想来,解释这种偏差的原因大致有两个:首先,数量庞大的中等收入阶层(年工资收入4万元以上)薪金水平在下降;其次,行政事业、国有企业等传统意义上的“单位”的职工收入增加了,而 Recently read two freshly baked media coverage, straight wonder. According to statistics, in 2003, the average annual wage of workers and staff in urban units in Beijing was 25,312 yuan, an increase of 3,460 yuan or 15.8% over the previous year. Another said that according to the survey, Beijing's average annual salary in 2003 was 43,728 yuan, a drop of 600 yuan or 12% over the previous year. The two news stories are very different, what is going on, and our wages are up or down? If you think about it carefully, there are two reasons for explaining this deviation: First, the large number of middle-income groups (Annual salary of more than 40,000 yuan) salary level is declining; Second, the administrative, state-owned enterprises and other traditional sense of the “unit” income of workers increased, and