Comrades, please wait a little longer. The salary increase will be the highest in March and April.

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This article mainly talks about industry salaries, freelance work, and women's promotions from the perspective of job seekers.

The highest salary increase is found in March and April when changing jobs

There is no doubt that nothing affects the entire talent market more than salary.

The salary levels of the Internet industry are sorted out from multiple dimensions. Based on different years of work experience, in the four fields of technology, design, marketing and sales, and finance, the average monthly salary of these positions in 2015 was:

According to the data, finance-related jobs not only have a high starting salary, but also have a higher growth rate than marketing, design, and technical personnel. Surprisingly, technical personnel have always been in short supply, but both the starting salary and growth rate are at the lowest level.

(Note: There is still a significant income gap between fresh graduates and workers with more than 10 years of experience)

Region is another important factor that affects salary. 100Offer helped us calculate the salary levels and salary increases of various regions. The results showed that the salary levels in Beijing, Shanghai and Hangzhou are comparable, while Guangzhou and Shenzhen are slightly behind.

In addition, location is also an important factor affecting job opportunities. Lagou.com told 36Kr that the number of Internet companies in Beijing is twice that of Shanghai. As of October 29, 2015, Beijing still ranked first in the country in terms of the proportion of Internet recruitment companies nationwide, accounting for 30% of the total; Beijing's job demand ranked first in the country, with a total of 530,000 job demands, accounting for 46% of the total.

Shanghai, Shenzhen and Guangzhou followed closely behind. Among them, Shanghai accounted for 15% of the total number of recruiting companies, with 179,000 job vacancies, accounting for 16% of the total; Shenzhen accounted for 11% of the total number of recruiting companies, with 116,000 job vacancies, accounting for 10% of the total; Guangzhou accounted for 7% of the total number of recruiting companies, with 85,000 job vacancies, accounting for 7% of the total.

However, even so, don't rush to change jobs. Jia Zhifan, founder of 100Offer, told 36Kr that salary increases are the largest when people change jobs in March and April every year. For those who changed jobs in April 2015, the average salary increase was more than 40%, while the lowest increase was less than 10% in February.

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Women may only account for one-third of the practitioners

Although there are more and more female executives in the Internet industry, represented by Mayer Margaret (CEO of Yahoo), Sheryl Sandberg (COO of Facebook), and Jean Liu (President of Didi), women in the workplace still face many challenges in their career development due to the dual pressures of work and family, even in the most free and open Internet industry.

Data from Lagou.com shows that the proportion of female job seekers is still much lower than that of male job seekers. From a regional perspective, female job seekers account for the highest proportion in Beijing, with a male-female job seeker ratio of 64:36. The male-female job seeker ratio in Shanghai is 68:32, in Shenzhen it is 73:27, and in Guangzhou it is 72:28.

The ratio of male and female job seekers for different positions is also different. The highest proportion of female job seekers is still in the support positions of the functional system, accounting for as high as 78%. In the work of the business system, except for the design positions, the proportion of women is generally 50%. Among them, in the technical field, the proportion of male job seekers is as high as 85%, while women only account for 15%.

In addition, women encounter more obstacles than men in the process of promotion. Linkedin told 36Kr that in large Internet companies, men account for 80% of the promoted people in the middle and lower levels, and the proportion of middle-level upwards increases step by step. In the position of engineer, it is more obvious that women have difficulty in promotion. It takes an average of 2.4 years for male engineers to be promoted from manager to director, while it takes 5.5 years for female engineers to be promoted to director. The promotion time of male engineers is only half of that of female engineers.

The good news is that women in the new era are also seeking breakthroughs in their careers, and the Internet provides an opportunity. In September this year, the State Council Information Office released the white paper "Gender Equality and Women's Development in China", which showed that female entrepreneurs in China's Internet sector have reached 55%. Not long ago, Alibaba released the "Internet + Her Era: Female Entrepreneurs Report", which pointed out that the average age of Chinese online entrepreneurs is 32.6 years old, 15 years younger than offline entrepreneurs.

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The average pre-tax income of freelancers exceeds that of white-collar workers in Shanghai

We once took an individual as an example and studied the career development trajectory of an O2O salesperson in the past year. The rapid development of this industry has provided practitioners with huge career development opportunities. More importantly, it has also spawned a new working model - freelancers.

LinkedIn user data shows that freelancers have covered social media, engineering, programmers and other fields. Due to the flexible time requirements of freelance work, freelancers have an average of 2.1 jobs. Data shows that the average pre-tax income of O2O freelancers in China has reached 8,312 yuan, exceeding the 7,214 yuan income of white-collar workers in Shanghai.

This not only provides a new perspective on career development for those who must work in agencies or brokerage companies, but also gives rise to new entrepreneurial opportunities. For example, LinkedIn launched the ProFinder business in October 2015 to help companies find freelancers in the fields of design, writing, editing, accounting, etc.