After the founding of new China, with the comprehensive takeover of big cities and factories in northeast China, it has become an important subject for the Communist Party of China to formulate a set of salary system in accordance with the principle of "pay according to work". Therefore, northeast China took the lead in the field of wage reform of workers to explore "pay according to work". Through the adjustment of workers" salary system, the salary grade system has been transformed from multi-level system to eight-level system. In the form of wages, gradually from the hourly system to the piecework system; In the respect of the reward salary system, a single prize system with production as the index was implemented. Reviewing and sorting out this reform can provide beneficial inspiration for the adjustment and perfection of current workers" wages and the better development of the socialist "pay according to work" wage system with Chinese characteristics.