Results: What’s Your Salary Rank Among Our China-based Followers

Last week, we had an investigation of the salary information among our China-based followers. Thanks to all of your answers, by far 252  questionnaires have been collected. Here we go for the results!

1 The gender

People who participate in our investigation consist of 74% of males and 25.6% of females.

2 The location

55.3% of the participants are based in Shanghai. The rest of them are scattered in first-tier cities such as Beijing & Shenzhen, and second-tier cities such as Nanjing, Hangzhou and Ningbo.

3 The industries

42.0% of the participants work in education. 

14.8% of the participants work in high tech.

8.8% of the participants work in international trade and development.

5.2% of the participants work in finance.

2.4% of the participants work are entrepreneurs.

4 The age

5 The salary

Some discoveries

1 The relation between age & salary  

The chance to achieve an annual salary above 450k CNY grows as the age grows.

When we look at the 18-25 age group, the chance to acquire the highest rank of salary looks slim. Only 1 of the participants in this group has reached this level, which takes up 0.4% of the total number of participants. 

However, if we turn to the 31-40 age group, we’ll find that the ratio has raised up to 13.49%. This can be explained by the fact that people in this group are already at the management level in diversified industries.   

Age	Percentage of all participants	Annual salary > 450k CNY  (Compared with peers)
18-25	5.1%	8.33%
26-30	29.6%	8.00%
31-40	43.5%	13.49%
40+	21.7%	40.74%

7. The relation between salary and the industry you work in

The education industry gets an average salary of 250k- 350k per year

The 250k- 350k salary range rates 24.6%, fits for the average salary for the education industry, which has a 42.4% employment rate. 

8. The trend of industry development in Shanghai

Industry needs for foreigners in big cities like Shanghai and Beijing are slowly shifting from education to high-tech. Where are you going to be in the next 10 years, follow us, let’s make history together!

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