The microeconomic data of China’s over 1.6 million industrial enterprises during 1999—2007 are used to test whether export trade raises wage level of the enterprises and the analysis shows that there is obvious wage difference between export enterprises and non-export enterprises, that the wage of export enterprises is 7.1 percent higher than that of non-export enterprises, that there is unremarkable difference of wage level between export enterprises and continuous non-export enterprises before the export of the export-enterprises and that the wage level of the export enterprises is even lower than that of non-export enterprises then, which reveal that export trade really raises wage level of enterprises.