The actual salary is lower than the social security contribution base. Is this legal?

Legally speaking, the social security payment base is only an average of the local social wages in the previous year, and it is possible that the actual wages of employees are lower than the average.

For example, some people earn 2,000 yuan, while others earn 8,000 yuan. The average salary of these two people is 5,000 yuan, and it is reasonable that 2,000 yuan is less than 5,000 yuan. As long as it is not lower than the local minimum wage.

The minimum wage refers to the minimum amount of labor remuneration paid by the employer (or employer) on the premise that the laborer provides normal labor within the legal working hours. The minimum wage does not include overtime pay, special working conditions and allowances under special conditions, nor does it include insurance, welfare benefits and various non-monetary incomes of workers. The minimum wage shall be paid in legal tender on time.

Social insurance is a social and economic system that provides income or compensation for those who lose their ability to work, are temporarily unemployed or suffer losses due to health reasons. The main items of social insurance include endowment insurance, medical insurance, unemployment insurance, industrial injury insurance and maternity insurance.

The social insurance plan is organized by the government, forcing a certain group to use part of its income as social insurance tax (fee) to form a social insurance fund. Under certain conditions, the insured can get fixed income or loss compensation from the fund. It is a redistribution system, and its goal is to ensure the reproduction of material and labor and social stability.

References:

Social insurance Baidu encyclopedia