| Within China book printing there is a great variation in salaries |
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Within China book printing there is a great variation in salaries and no trade-wide statistics are available. Estimates of the typical starting salary in publishing in 2007 were around £18,000. Traditionally, the many junior jobs in publishing, particularly in editorial, have low starting salaries, in part a consequence of large numbers chasing few jobs. Some people argue that the incidence of low pay and the high proportion of female employment at junior levels are not unconnected.
Those who move jobs on a regular basis mayfind they have increased their salaries above the levels of those who are content to stay for a long time in the same book printing company. The law of supply and demand affects salaries across different types of publishing. For example, publishers wanting staff with a humanities background have a large choice and tend to pay lower salaries than legal and medical publishers, which mayfind it difficult to recruit staff with the relevant academic qualifications or experience. Moreover, some people like to work in areas which they see as having intrinsic interest and accept lower salaries than if they worked in otherfields of publishing. This has applied particularly to those in the literary and prestigious end of publishing.
On the marketing and sales side, salaries have been approaching those of general commerce; but at the top end, the salaries of most directors of publishing companies do not equate with those earned by the heads of large fast-moving
consumer goods industries. At the very top, chief executives earn salaries many times those of the lowest paid staff, in some cases more than 15 times.
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