Vietnam: Graduates earn 2.5 times more than unskilled workers
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2006-07-07 11:22
Average monthly salary of a Vietnamese university graduate was 2.5 times
higher than that of a local unskilled worker in 2005, local newspaper Vietnam
News reported Friday.
According to a survey by the country's Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social
Affairs, a university graduate, last year, received monthly salary of roughly
2.5 million Vietnamese dong ( VND) (157 U.S. dollars) on average compared with
over one million VND (62.9 dollars) got by unskilled laborers.
Meanwhile, a college graduate and an employee with vocational training got
monthly salaries of over 1.7 million VND (107 dollars) and more than 1.4 million
VND (88 dollars) respectively.
The survey also shows that managers in state-owned enterprises and
foreign-invested ones respectively received a salary three times and nine times
higher than workers.
The survey was conducted among 5,000 employees who have worked for at least
one year in 500 firms, including state-owned enterprises, private ones and
foreign-invested ones nationwide, in the 2004-2005 period.
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