Provisions on the payment base of social security

The payment base of social security 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.

Individual employees take the monthly average of their total salary income in the previous year as the monthly payment base of this year, in which: the new employees of this unit take the full-term salary income of the month when the employees join the company as the payment base; The insured unit takes the sum of the monthly payment bases of all the insured employees of the unit as the monthly payment base of the unit.

In China, the payment base is approved by the social insurance agency according to the employer's declaration.

1, upper limit of payment base

The part where the employee's wage income exceeds 300% of the arithmetic average monthly wage of employees in provinces and cities in the previous year is not included in the payment base;

2. Lower limit of payment base

If the wage income of employees is lower than 60% of the arithmetic average monthly salary of employees in provinces and cities in the previous year, 60% of the arithmetic average monthly salary of employees in provinces and cities in the previous year shall be the payment base.

There are upper and lower limits on the social insurance payment base, and the minimum can not be lower than 60% of the average monthly salary of employees in the whole city last year (employees in private enterprises, employees in individual industrial and commercial households and employees in non-local urban households shall not be lower than 50%, and shareholders and owners of private enterprises as legal persons and individual industrial and commercial households shall not be lower than100%); The maximum can not be higher than 300% of the average monthly salary of employees in the city last year. The average wage of employees in this Municipality is published annually by the Municipal Bureau of Statistics.

Legal basis:

People's Republic of China (PRC) social insurance law

Article 12 The employing unit shall pay the basic old-age insurance premium according to the proportion of the total wages of employees stipulated by the state and record it in the basic old-age insurance pooling fund. Employees shall pay the basic old-age insurance premium in accordance with the proportion of wages stipulated by the state and record it in their personal accounts.

Fifteenth basic pension consists of overall pension and individual account pension. The basic pension is determined according to factors such as individual cumulative payment years, payment wages, average salary of local employees, personal account amount, average life expectancy of urban population, etc.