There are many details that can be seen in the market about whether the textile market is good or bad, such as the situation of sample making and the number of warehouses entering the dyeing factory every day. Of course, another important sign is the recruitment and workers’ wages. It can be said that the wage situation in the textile industry this year is almost consistent with the trend of the textile market.
In March and April, the market encountered an outbreak of overseas epidemics at the beginning of the resumption of work, which resulted in the cancellation and postponement of a large number of foreign trade orders. All related textile companies were struggling, and layoffs and salary cuts were immediately put on the agenda. According to an employee of a textile foreign trade company, due to the stagnation of a large number of their European and American orders, they laid off more than 20 people at a time in April.
Some production-oriented enterprises are more conflicted. On the one hand, they want to reduce their burden through layoffs, but on the other hand, they are worried that the loss of skilled workers will affect the resumption of production in the future. Therefore, many companies reduce costs and retain employees by “low-paying waiting for delivery”, giving employees 20-100 yuan a day for living expenses while waiting for orders to return before returning to work.
It can be said that that time was the lowest point in the income of the entire textile industry, and many employees even chose to return to their hometowns and change careers during that period. However, recently, while the improvement of the textile market has not yet been obvious, the number and salary of workers recruited by various large and small factories have become quite attractive.
6,000 yuan/month is the minimum guarantee, and dyeing factory salaries are increasing
Dyeing factories in various places are recruiting people The positions are relatively common in some dyeing factories. In terms of salary, everyone knows that the working hours in dyeing factories are long and intensive, so it is reasonable to have a higher salary. However, the salary and benefits of some positions are a bit unexpected:
The finalized captain is guaranteed a minimum of 6 dry jobs before production. After production, the minimum guarantee + output + full attendance + quality bonus is about 7,500, including food and accommodation.
Recruiting 4 dehydration masters, with a minimum guarantee of 6,000 yuan/month, a piece rate of 80 yuan/ton, and a monthly high-temperature hard work subsidy of 500-1,000 yuan. Our factory has sufficient and stable supply of 10 tons/day.
For one sewing worker, the monthly salary is guaranteed at 5,000 yuan, and the monthly additional piecework is about 6,500 yuan, five insurances, seniority bonus, and food and accommodation are included.
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Anyone familiar with dyeing factories knows that the workers in the setting machine, dehydration and sewing are not technically very difficult in the dyeing factory. It is a very intensive type of work, so it is generally not the focus of dyeing factories to increase wages and improve benefits. However, judging from the recent recruitment information issued by dyeing factories in various places, these benefits seem to have increased compared with previous years.
In the dyeing factory mentioned above, the final captain can get 7,500 yuan per month, including food and accommodation. In the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions in previous years, most regular captain salaries were just over 6,000 yuan/month, and they generally did not include food and accommodation. This year’s order situation should be lower than in previous years, but there are dyeing factories on the market that have opened as high as 7,000 yuan/month. above.
The salary situation for other workers such as dehydration and sewing is also very similar. Normal wages are either based on output or working hours, but no matter what, the salary is generally difficult to exceed 6,000 yuan, let alone other benefits. However, recently the recruitment of 6,000 yuan/month has become the bottom line. Is this a sign of some kind of market improvement?
Mainly low-end jobs, reserve strength for the market outlook
If you carefully study all recruitment positions, you will find that , some types of jobs with relatively high technical requirements are relatively small. Similar to samplers, dyers, etc., the number of them in dyeing factories is also very large, but their proportion in the numerous recruitment information is relatively small.
This is mainly because these employees with relatively high technical requirements received more care from the factory when the dyeing factory cut wages or laid off employees in the early stage. After all, once the talents in this area are lost, the cost of recruiting them later will be high. And the difficulty will be very great. Dyeing factories, however, have no such concerns when it comes to jobs that require low technical requirements and are highly replaceable. Therefore, the loss of such jobs in the early stage was also relatively serious.
But why has this type of job suddenly begun to recruit people with high salaries recently? On the one hand, the textile market has improved since August. The loss of workers in the early stage has caused low production efficiency in the dyeing factory, and orders cannot flow smoothly between various links in the dyeing factory. Although certain types of work in the dyeing factory are highly substitutable, the absence of them during production will also cause the entire production line to become stuck.
On the other hand, it is also a positive preparation for the market outlook. Several important holidays and shopping seasons are coming in the second half of the year, and the textile and apparel market will inevitably have a wave of urgent and quick orders. At the same time, as the end of the year approaches, it becomes more difficult to recruit workers. Generally, workers are not willing to change jobs as the end of the year approaches, or they return home early to prepare for the New Year, making it difficult to replenish supplies as soon as possible, which affects the dyeing factory’s future orders.
The current high-paying recruitment in dyeing factories is not only a feedback on part of the current market, but also a forecast of future market conditions. The period near the end of the year has always been the busiest time for dyeing factories, especially at the beginning of next year. It is still unknown whether there will be extended holidays and order cancellations like the beginning of this year. However, all trading companies will be prepared, and actively striving for shipments before the year is bound to be a high probability event.
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