Recently, a Chinese research company released a report concerning high-end talent employment status. In the first half of 2019, the financial industry practitioners paid the highest salary of 20,172 yuan ($2,932). The Internet practitioners ranked second, with 19,047 yuan ($2,769). However, the highest salary is given to the 5G architects, with a monthly salary of 42,800 yuan ($6,221).
Talent Supply Index
The national short-term index of high-end talents TSI (if TSI>1, it indicates that talent supply is in short; if TSI<1, it indicates that talent supply exceeds demand). TSI is on the rise, indicating that talents are becoming more and more popular. So it is relatively easy to find a job. It fell from 1.01 in January to 0.74 in March. It fell to the lowest point due to the big environment and the low season of the Spring Festival. Since then, it has bottomed out and rose 1.11. The mid-to-high-end talent employment market showed a slight shortage of supply and demand on the basis of the balance between supply and demand.

In the first half of 2019, from the perspective of talent demand in major industries, the Internet industry accounted for the highest proportion, at 28.02%.
The Average Monthly Salary Specialties
In the average monthly ranking of major industries in the first half of 2019, the financial industry practitioners paid the highest salary of 20,172 yuan. This is the only industry with a monthly salary of over 20,000. Internet practitioners ranked second with a salary of 19,047 yuan. The third is the real estate industry, with an average salary of 18,003 yuan.

As for the cities with the highest average salary, there are three cities with a monthly salary of over 20,000, namely Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen. The monthly salary in these cities are 22,306, 21,311 and 20,958 yuan respectively. Guangzhou’s salary ranks fourth, at 19,055 yuan.

What do people like to know?
In the first half of 2019, the major events closely related to the public interest biomedicine, chips, cross-border e-commerce, new materials, 5G, high-end manufacturing, AI & Big Data, new energy cars, and industrial internet. As a result, it was found that the largest increase in the demand for talents was by garbage classification, which was 119.32% higher than the first half of 2018.
In terms of salary, all hot areas are at the upper-middle level, and the highest salary belongs to the architects of the 5G field, which is 42,800 yuan.