China Wage Data Goes Missing as Tariffs Imperil Millions of Jobs

One of China’s largest online recruitment platforms has quietly stopped providing wage data it’s compiled for at least a decade, making it more difficult to gauge the health of the world’s biggest labor market just as it comes under strain from US tariffs.

Zhaopin Ltd. has yet to publish its reports on average wages companies offered to new hires in 38 key cities for the past two quarters. It’s previously released them regularly within the first month after each quarter ended.

Beijing-based Zhaopin didn’t reply to a request for comment.

The missing numbers extend a pattern in China of ...