Recently, three mainland oil giants, China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (Sinopec), China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) and China National Petroleum Pipeline Network Group Co., Ltd. (CNPC), have disclosed the annual revenues of their top management, which has attracted widespread attention in the market. Among them, the annual salary of the chairman and general manager did not even reach one million, which exceeded many people's expectations, and triggered public discussion about the reasonableness of their salary setting and the deep-seated reasons behind it.
According to the information released by the above three companies, the annual income of the chairman and general manager of Sinopec, CNOOC and Pipeline Company is as follows: the annual salary of the chairman and party secretary of Sinopec is 953,400 yuan, and the income of the general manager of Sinopec is 905,800 yuan. The annual salary of the chairman and party secretary of CNOOC is 960,800 yuan, and the income of the general manager is also 960,800 yuan. The annual salary of the chairman and secretary of the party group of the pipeline company is 861,300 yuan, and the income of the general manager is also 861,300 yuan.
As soon as these data came out, they had a lot of repercussions among the general public. For the heads of vice-ministerial-level enterprises such as Sinopec and CNOOC, why is the salary level so low? Such an answer is earth-shattering and shocking.
Indeed, compared with the annual salary of the chairman and general manager of other private enterprises, which is often close to one million yuan, this is obviously unconvincing. Because the annual profits of private enterprises are almost the same as those of central enterprises, and the annual salary of the person in charge of the former starts at least millions of yuan. However, the open data has mercilessly become a slap in the face of everyone.
In fact, such a salary level is undoubtedly on the low side. According to the general perception in the industry, even in the same industry, the annual salary of some major figures is also stable at more than one million. The salaries of the chairman and general manager of a large enterprise like Lenovo Group have even risen to 100 million yuan. For example, Yang Yuanqing, who was named the "Emperor of Workers", has an annual salary of up to 100 million yuan. This makes the salaries of the heads of central enterprises such as Sinopec and CNOOC seem insignificant.
For the senior management of enterprises, especially the central enterprises at the vice-ministerial level, how to balance the relationship between income and career development is a question worth considering. If their salaries are completely in accordance with market-based standards, the salary gap between themselves and the civil servants of the enterprises where they work will be huge, which is not conducive to internal unity and stability. In addition, excessively high salaries will also exacerbate the gap between the rich and the poor among internal employees, as well as the gap between the living standards of the outside people, which will weaken the social responsibility of central and state-owned enterprises. Therefore, it may be more appropriate to adopt a more stringent salary setting.
In the author's view, regardless of whether the nature of the enterprise is public or private, whether it is a high-level employee or a grassroots position, fairness and equality have always been the direction of all human organizational mechanisms. At the same time, transparency and fairness are also principles that a company should uphold so that society can respect and record its contribution and value. Therefore, through the disclosure of the executive salaries of Sinopec, CNOOC and pipeline companies, we hope to take this opportunity to promote the salary setting of various industries to return to a fair and transparent track.
Although the annual salaries of senior officials of state-owned oil companies are far less than those of foreign or private companies, it is important to note that the profitability and geopolitical influence of these oil majors are still unmatched by other companies. For this reason, how to balance the treatment of these jobs with the social justice undertaken by the management of the enterprise is undoubtedly a topic that needs to be studied and explored in depth in the future.
Is this the salary of the manager of the leading enterprise in your mind?
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