At present, the highest wages in North Korea are coal mine workers, with a monthly salary as high as1.150,000 won. North Korea's heating in winter is uniformly supplied. Generally, a family's usual water, electricity and heating costs add up to 2 won, which is only a symbolic cost.
Tour guides accompanying foreigners can get about 4000 won a month, not counting tips. On one occasion, Chinese enterprises wanted to contact North Korea to sell electricity meters, so they were particularly concerned about their electricity sales. As a result, they found that a considerable number of houses were not at ease with electricity meters, and electricity was distributed by the state as welfare.
The average monthly income of ordinary citizens in Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea, is only about RMB 200 yuan, while the monthly salary of department heads is about 500 yuan, and the monthly income of workers in other cities is below 200 yuan. As a rare position, a stewardess earns a monthly salary of 500 yuan. This is a factory kindergarten. At present, the facilities of North Korea's state-owned factories are very complete, including hospitals, schools, shops, kindergartens and so on.
North Korea implements a rationing system, including clothes, food, non-staple food and housing. North Koreans are waiting for the distribution of the state, because it is impossible to support themselves by income alone. But the number of rations is divided into objects.
Workers are given two sets of work clothes a year, ordinary cadres and technicians three years, middle-level cadres two years and primary and secondary school students two years. If you want to buy the rest, you can only rely on industrial shopping vouchers, but it costs money.
The production efficiency of North Korea's state-owned factories is very high, but there is also an imagination phenomenon of not working hard.
North Korean workers work in Korean shoe factories. The salary here is much higher than the average salary in North Korea. North Korean workers are generally around RMB in 300 yuan, and the highest is in Kaesong Park, which can reach RMB 600 to 800 yuan. The minimum wage for North Korean workers is $74.