What is social security?

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

Social security payment base refers to the wage base used by enterprises or individual employees to calculate and pay social insurance premiums. This base multiplied by the prescribed rate is the amount of social insurance premiums that enterprises or individuals should pay.

Local social security payment bases are linked to local average wage data. It is determined according to the average monthly wage income of employees from June 1 day to February 1 day in the previous year. Once a year, it will not change within one year after confirmation. The time to apply for adjusting the social security base is generally in July.

Enterprises generally take the total wages of enterprise employees as the payment base, and individual employees take half of their average monthly salary in the previous year as the salary base for individuals to pay social insurance premiums. In China, the payment base is approved by the social insurance agency according to the employer's declaration.