The salary of the class of 2018 has hit a new high, with the highest salary exceeding 500,000 yuan:

According to incomplete statistics China’s programmers have more than 2 million, and every year this figure still keeps rising, according to the truth of the number of employees gradually increase salary should be lower and lower, but the salary is still rising substantially, what reason is brought about? Is it determined by China’s national conditions? There’s another reason.

Chinese software compared to the start of the European and American countries or more later, now after 70 programmers from actual age have more than 40 years old, is very old, 40, 50 years old in Europe and the number of programmers, not in China for more than 40 years old programmer if still writing the code will be people around to new view, in Europe and the United States don’t have this kind of question, Bearded programmers in their 50s and 60s in IT firms in America and Europe are not worried about being replaced by younger people.

* Note that in this report, Tech Worker — “Tech Worker” is defined as software engineer, designer, product manager, and data analyst roles.

If use salary to the European and American countries, China’s industry in the IT industry can be the only close to the salary, and there is no state-owned monopoly industry, development history and the European and American countries in the IT industry for a long time, and is still growing, so you can imagine the future will also rise, Chinese programmers, decided to programmers continue to rise to roughly the following several reasons.

National Strategic Planning

The general direction of the 13th Five-Year Plan is to accelerate the expansion of strategic emerging industries and create new engines for economic and social development. Among the strategic emerging industries, which are mainly concentrated in the information technology industry and network economy, the state will provide various policies, funds and resources to support their rapid and extensive development.

Internet plus, big data and artificial intelligence will be the top priority. In the next ten years, software, Internet, data, intelligence and other related fields will still be the development trend of The Times, and the average income of programmers supporting the development of these fields will still be much higher than that of other industries.

02. Chinese software is still in a period of rapid development

In these years of development in the birth of a lot of technology companies, are in need of a large number of programmers for the service, so the situation of the whole market is still more than supply, now many people think why graduates directly looking for software jobs or difficult, must be good basic skills or participate in training.

Major development in recent years in China although there are still large gaps, but lack of the software, is the pillar type of programmers, because the average programmer every year there are many to choose, the root cause or software industry threshold is getting high, want to find a job there must be a genuine, want to muddle through basic impossible.

03. The threshold of entry for programmers is relatively high

Want to become a standard programmer from a student needs to go through a lot of experience, the middle can not stick to it, will directly choose to give up, whether the middle is self-taught or attend training, do not think that paid to attend training will be able to find a job.

Spending money on training may make you more motivated to learn, but training just gets you started, and how far you can go depends on your ability to learn and keep working hard. If you think that spending money can make you feel safe, then you can quit the industry.

04. Keep raising your salary to compete for talent

There is another reason for the high wages in the Internet IT industry. IT companies are asset-light companies, where human resources are the only cost and people are the only productivity. As long as there are a bunch of people who know how to program, they can start a company. With the rapid development of the industry, the demand for IT talents is far greater than what graduates and training courses can provide. In order to find suitable talents, IT companies need to constantly raise salaries and compete with other companies for talents.