Real estate agents look for higher pay in 2010

As many as 95 percent of employees in Beijing real estate companies expect their income to be somewhere between 150,000 and 300,000 yuan in 2010, according to a survey report released on April 2.

The survey, conducted by Zhaopin.com, one of the largest human resources service providers in China, found 95 percent of employees in real estate companies in Beijing expect their income to grow to twice or three times their average income in 2009.

"The average (real estate) income in Beijing was about 100,000 yuan in 2009," said Zhao Lipeng, senior payment consultant with Zhaopin.com.