本文通过对嘉庆时期（1795-1820）名义工资的整体特征进行阐述，弥补已有研究对工资水平时空差异、职业差异和工资组成的忽视。该时期工资水平总体稳定，社会冲击似乎并未明显地反映于此。工资构成中的实物部分对劳动者的福利意义不容忽视。工资的特征差异主要体现在技能、区域和行业等方面。技能溢价稳定在较低水平说明确实存在较好的制度效率，但这不意味着劳动生产率的改善。18-19 世纪全球比较中对中国工资的低估和误读值得商榷。

This paper explores the overall characteristics of nominal wages in the Jiaqing Period (1795-1820), with a special focus on long-neglected aspects, such as temporal and spatial differences, occupational differences, and wage compositions. During this period, wages were generally stable, which did not seem to reflect contemporary impacts on society. The physical components of the wages cannot be ignored as they offered a huge part of welfare to workers. Differences in wages were mainly manifested in skills, regions, and industries. A stable and relatively low skill premium indicated the existence of good institutional efficiency in Chinese economy during this period, but this did not reflectan improvement in labor productivity. The underestimation and misinterpretation of Chinese wages inthe global comparisons of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries are debatable.