Average Salary at China’s ‘Big 3’ Tech Firms: Tencent, Alibaba, & Baidu

Today we’re looking at nearly 325,000 local job data points to pull out and organize some top-line salary info on three of China’s biggest in tech.

Our subjects are known as China’s ‘Big 3” tech firms – Tencent (腾讯), Alibaba (阿里巴巴), and Baidu (百度). 

Data today comes from one of the largest Chinese Job Platforms, BOSS Zhipin (BOSS直聘).

These large platforms seem to have the most relevant and abundant data points when it comes to the modern Chinese job markets. We’ll be sure to include the number of data points we have for each statistic we pull out. We’ll also be updating this annually to keep up with the newest salary data out there – this data was last checked (by a real human!) in March 2024.

Things to note: 1) These companies are bonefied conglomerates that hire for hundreds of different types of positions, and 2) this data is for China-based salaries only – with the largest segment coming from each company’s respective headquarters…

Tencent is headquartered in Shenzhen.

Alibaba is headquartered in Hangzhou.

Baidu is headquartered in Beijing.

These locations are all megacities with tens of millions of inhabitants, and command some of the highest salaries in China relative to other cities and regions.

With that out of the way, let’s dive into some neat data on the average salary at China’s ‘big 3’ tech giants!