Lu Xun's monthly salary was 360 yuan in that year, what is the income level today?

Lu Xun's monthly salary was 360 yuan in that year, what is the income level today?



Lu Xun was a master of the Republic of China period, according to his records in the diary, Lu Xun in 1912 to 1926, after several increases in wages, the final monthly salary was 360 yuan ocean, although it is said that because the Republic of China government often defaulted on wages, Resulting in Lu Xun's salary was only about 200 yuan, but the official salary for Lu Xun at that time was indeed about 360 yuan.

Many people are more confused, Lu Xun's 360 pieces of ocean at that time, what is the income level, if you put this salary today, what is the income level?



What was Lu Xun's salary level at that time?

From 1912 to 1926, Lu Xun served in the Ministry of Education of the Republic of China, so the Republic of China government paid Lu Xun a salary, the initial stage of the salary was 60 yuan per month, and later after several salary increase adjustments, Lu Xun's salary rose to 360 yuan per month.

We can first compare horizontally, take some of Lu Xun's peers at that time to compare, such as Liang Qichao, who ran a newspaper in Tianjin in 1912, the annual net income is about 50,000 or 60,000 yuan of ocean, if it is replaced by a monthly salary, it is equivalent to four or five thousand per month.

There was also Chen Jinghan, who joined the "Declaration" at the same time as Lu Xun, and his basic salary per month was 300 oceans; Chen Duxiu, who worked at Peking University in 1920, had a monthly salary of 400 oceans, and the university professor at that time, the monthly salary was also 400 oceans.

According to this horizontal comparison, we will find that Lu Xun's salary, among peers, is actually not high, compared with Liang Qichao, and even Lu Xun's salary is very low, so can this show that Lu Xun's salary is low? I don't think so, but we still need to make a vertical comparison.



Putting aside the famous masters at that time, we compared the wages of ordinary people with Lu Xun, at that time, the salary of a primary school teacher was 10 yuan per month, even if it was a primary school principal, the monthly salary was only 20 oceans, ordinary apprentices, the salary of a year was also 3 oceans, beijing patrol police, monthly salary of about 7 yuan, Shanghai ordinary workers, monthly salary of 3 oceans, Beijing middle school teachers, monthly salary of about 40 yuan.

After the vertical comparison, we will find that Lu Xun and his fellow masters, at that time, the salary income was already considered a high-income group, as for what kind of level this high income is, we can combine the purchasing power of the ocean at that time to study it.

According to the records of the "Morning Post", at that time, in the Area along the West River in Jishuitan, Beijing, a house with twenty houses sold for about 3500 oceans, and rented a courtyard with seventeen houses in Beijing Bell and Drum Temple, the rent was about 20 oceans per month, and in the same period in Henan, the rent per mu of land was about 3 to 12 oceans, even if it was the land where big smoke was planted, it was 8 oceans per mu, which was really not worth mentioning compared with Lu Xun's salary.

According to this purchasing power, Lu Xun's salary of 360 yuan per month could rent 18 sets of courtyards with 17 rooms in Beijing at that time, and he could rent 30 to 120 acres of land in Henan, and only needed ten months' wages to buy a 20-room house in Beijing.



Even according to Lu Xun's actual salary (200 pieces of ocean), Lu Xun's salary can also rent 10 sets of courtyards in Beijing, 20 to 70 acres of land in Henan, and a year and a half of salary can buy a house with 20 rooms.

However, what we need to be clear is that Among Lu Xun's monthly income, the salary is only a dime, because at that time Lu Xun was still teaching in eight schools in Beijing and doing "special writing" for the Ministry of Education, and the income behind these work was Lu Xun's main income, such as his part-time course fee, just in 1924, it was as high as more than 8,000 oceans, doing special writing for the Ministry of Education, there were 300 oceans of writing income every month, in addition, Lu Xun also had a rich writing fee, according to the records of "Lu Xun's Diary", In 1929, he received a fee for more than 20,000 oceans.

If we add These main incomes of Lu Xun, we will find that Lu Xun's salary is really not worth mentioning, and Lu Xun's income, in that era, is definitely a leader, even if it is placed in the peers, Lu Xun is also an outstanding person.



What is Lu Xun's income level today?

After understanding the level of Lu Xun's income at that time, we can also study what level Lu Xun's income is at today in combination with the current situation. If we want to compare it today, we can only compare it through the price and wage gap, for example, Lu Xun's wage at that time was 360 oceans per month, and the wages of ordinary workers in Shanghai were 3 oceans, that is to say, Lu Xun's wages were 120 times that of ordinary workers in Shanghai, even according to Lu Xun's wages, Lu Xun's wages were sixty or seventy times that of ordinary workers in Shanghai.

According to this benchmark, the wages of our ordinary workers in Shanghai today, even if calculated according to a minimum standard of 5,000, Lu Xun's wages multiplied by 60 times are 300,000, multiplied by 120 times is 600,000, in other words, Lu Xun's monthly wages are equivalent to the current 300,000 to 600,000.

If you calculate according to the house price, Lu Xun's wage purchase ability is even more exaggerated today, when Lu Xun's salary for one year can buy a 20-room house in Beijing, if it is put today, the 20-room residence is at least in the unit of 100 million in Beijing, that is to say, Lu Xun's annual salary, according to the house price situation, is equivalent to at least one hundred million today.



Of course, this algorithm obviously does not meet the actual situation, after all, the residential at that time is different from now, so we will calculate according to the normal residence in Beijing now, according to the 120 square meters of house, Lu Xun's annual salary can buy a set, and now the 120 square meters of house in Beijing, some of the mid-range ones are about ten million, in other words, Lu Xun's salary is equivalent to about ten million a year today.

This conversion standard is basically more reliable, we can combine Lu Xun's income level at that time and the income of the people who are now at Lu Xun's income level at that time, it is relatively clear, Lu Xun belonged to the master level of high-income people at that time, or best-selling authors and celebrities, today's masters and best-selling authors or celebrities, those who are at the tip of the pyramid, the annual income is at least more than ten million, and Lu Xun's situation in that year is more similar.

Of course, this is only to compare Lu Xun's salary in the Ministry of Education of the Republic of China, if you count Lu Xun's writing income and part-time tuition, then Lu Xun's income is too terrible, at least today can be calculated according to hundreds of millions, absolutely at the top of the pyramid of the income group.



epilogue

You don't look at Lu Xun and the various masters at that time the income was so high, in fact, the ordinary people at that time, not only low wages, but also a very difficult life, it can be said that the income gap in that era is far beyond our imagination, not as simple as we see on the surface!