According to Liepin data, the average annual salary of AI talents stands at the top of the tower, reaching 401,400

Source: Guangzhou Daily New Flower City

Reporter: Wen Jing; Editor: Li Guangman

In the first half of 2023, the domestic economy will gradually recover, some industries have shown signs of recovery and improvement, and employment has shown a new trend.

On August 4, the reporter learned that according to the latest "Big Data Insights into Employment Trends in the First Half of 2023" released by Liepin Big Data Research Institute, AIGC has experienced explosive growth due to the impact of Chat GPT, and new jobs have increased by nearly 130% year-on-year. Since artificial intelligence is a high-tech field, there is a greater demand for highly educated talents. Statistics show that the number of postgraduate and doctoral job seekers who submitted to AIGC increased by more than 320% year-on-year.

Employment in fields related to people's livelihood has recovered steadily

Data show that in the first half of 2023, governments at all levels adopted various measures to stimulate consumption and promote the internal circulation of the economy, which directly promoted the recovery of recruitment in the consumer goods industry. In the first half of the year, the three sub-industries with obvious growth in new jobs (talent demand) in the consumer goods industry were entertainment products/equipment, home appliances, and food/beverage/drinks, all of which exceeded 3%. Among these three sub-sectors, the average annual salary of home appliance recruitment is the highest, at 229,300 yuan.

Since the beginning of this year, the service industry has started to recover rapidly. The life service industry closely related to people's livelihood is showing a steady recovery trend. In the first half of 2023, new jobs in this industry will increase by 15.98% year-on-year, and the average annual salary of recruitment will be 137,600 yuan. The three sub-sectors with the fastest growth in new jobs in this industry are catering, tourism, and beauty/hairdressing/health care, with growth rates of 43.87%, 63.61%, and 62.23%; the average annual salary of recruits exceeds 130,000 yuan.

In the transportation/logistics/trade/retail industry, the three sub-sectors with a significant year-on-year increase in new jobs are civil aviation/railway/highway/waterway passenger transportation, trade/import and export, and postal/express delivery, accounting for 100.00%, 33.53%, and 5.50%, respectively. Among them, the average annual salary of recruitment is trade/import and export, which is 181,500 yuan, and its new positions have increased by 33.53% year-on-year.

It is expected that the employment demand of AIGC will continue to rise

Liepin Big Data Research Institute analyzed "18" new tracks, covering 15 popular strategic emerging industries (big data, e-commerce, aerospace, green and low-carbon, blockchain, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, network/ Information security, Internet of Things, chips, new materials, new energy, new energy vehicles, games, smart manufacturing) and three areas related to ChatGPT (AI large model, AIGC, dialogue robot), in order to analyze new growth points of employment opportunities .

Among these new tracks, the new jobs in the five tracks of AIGC (artificial intelligence generated content), new energy, new materials, dialogue robots, and green and low-carbon tracks increased relatively significantly in the first half of this year year-on-year, of which AIGC had the largest increase of 127.63% ; Followed by new energy, 42.49%. Among the five tracks, AIGC has the highest average annual salary of 401,400 yuan. In the first half of the year, the popularity of ChatGPT made AIGC popular, and its application is rapidly popularizing among organizations and individuals, which has had a subversive impact on many industries. It is foreseeable that the employment demand of AIGC will continue to rise in the future.

According to the analysis of the Liepin Big Data Research Institute, the top 10 third-level functions that are most in demand in these five new tracks are found: the function with the most new jobs in the AIGC field is algorithm engineers (accounting for 13.43%), and the job with the highest average annual salary is image Algorithm, it is 602,600 yuan; in the field of new energy, technology/process engineers (PE) have the most new positions (accounting for 3.26%), and the highest average annual salary is battery engineers, which is 273,900 yuan; in the field of new materials, new Materials engineers (accounting for 3.79%) posted the most jobs, and chemical R&D had the highest average annual salary of RMB 224,100. In the field of dialogue robots, product managers (accounting for 12.32%) posted the most jobs, with an average annual salary of The highest annual salary is natural language processing (NLP), which is 522,400 yuan; in the green and low-carbon field, water treatment engineers (accounting for 4.18%) are the most newly issued jobs, and the most recruited average annual salary is purchasing managers/supervisors, which are 257,100 yuan.

Judging from the delivery situation of these new tracks, the five new tracks with the largest year-on-year increase in the number of deliveries in the first half of 2023 are AIGC, dialogue robots, AI large models, aerospace, and new energy, with growth rates of 470.34%, 81.12%, and 69.50%, 58.08%, 38.09%. These deliverers are generally younger and highly educated.

Judging from the highly educated talents who have submitted these five new tracks, the proportion of job seekers with master's and doctoral degrees exceeds 17%. Among them, AIGC has the largest number of senders of master's and doctoral degrees, accounting for 29.93%, and its year-on-year growth ranks first, accounting for 322.87%. Conversational robots, AI large models, and aerospace masters and doctoral degree deliverers accounted for more than 20%, and their year-on-year growth ranked second, third, and fourth, with 71.25%, 57.40%, and 46.91%. Among the job seekers attracted by the three fields related to Chat GPT, young talents and highly educated talents have shown a good growth momentum. And the industries that these people flock to represent the trend of the future.

Fresh graduates: The proportion of live delivery positions ranks among the top ten

Judging from the first-level industry distribution of new graduate positions in the first half of the year, IT/Internet/games, scientific research technology/business services, and machinery/manufacturing ranked the top three, accounting for 16.69%, 11.46%, and 8.74% respectively. Among the first-level industries, the industries with the most obvious year-on-year growth in the positions of new graduates are advertising/media/culture/sports and life services, with growth rates of 41.43% and 10.46%.

In the first half of the year, the average annual salary of fresh graduates recruited in the first-level industry ranks, electronics/communications/semiconductors, automobiles, IT/Internet/games rank in the top three, with 178,000 yuan, 154,900 yuan, and 149,900 yuan respectively.

Among the TOP 10 functions with the fastest year-on-year growth in new graduate positions in the first half of the year, health consultants, overseas sales, and scientific research personnel increased the most, accounting for 93.84%, 61.68%, and 44.02%. As the whole country and citizens pay more attention to health, the whole society has more urgent needs for health consultants. Overseas sales have a relatively high threshold in sales, and a technologically powerful country needs a strong scientific research force of the new generation, so the demand for fresh graduates is in a high-growth trend. Among these functions, the average annual salary of scientific research personnel is the highest, at 283,300 yuan.

It is worth noting that the proportion of new fresh graduates with the function of live broadcast delivery ranks sixth, and the year-on-year increase ranks tenth. In the era of live broadcast economy, live streaming has become one of the hottest professions at the moment, and young talents with creativity, good physical strength, drive and high quality are needed to join it.

According to the big data of Liepin, among the hot search words of various college students in the class of 2023, operation ranks the top two. It can be seen that college students are very interested in operating positions. In the first half of 2023, fresh graduate positions in operations accounted for 4.33% of all fresh graduate positions, ranking eighth among the first-level functions, and their average annual salary was 111,700 yuan.

Among the TOP10 three-level functional distribution of operation subdivision, new media operations accounted for the highest proportion, 20.26%; the highest average annual salary was the operation manager/supervisor, at 172,300 yuan. At present, the popular live broadcast operation and cross-border e-commerce operation rank fourth and fifth, accounting for 7.88% and 7.19%, and the average annual salary of recruitment is 108,600 yuan and 104,400 yuan.

Judging from the employment opportunities in the first half of 2023, first-tier cities have considerable advantages in terms of the number of jobs and salaries. The data shows that among the top 20 cities with newly issued jobs in the first half of the year, Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen, and Guangzhou ranked the top four, accounting for 12.55%, 9.90%, 9.54%, and 6.18% respectively; Hangzhou, Suzhou, and Chengdu ranked No. From fifth to seventh, the proportions are 5.45%, 3.59%, and 3.58%, and the proportions of other cities are all less than 3%. Judging from the average annual salary of recruitment in these cities, Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen are the top three, with 227,700 yuan, 217,600 yuan, and 213,400 yuan. Hangzhou, Nanjing, Guangzhou, and Suzhou ranked fourth to seventh, with average annual salaries of 194,700 yuan, 180,300 yuan, 172,400 yuan, and 170,300 yuan.