AI Data Insight
In Q2 2026, the latest average starting salary in China's new economy sector dropped to 13,352.78 yuan, a slight pullback from the previous data. Amidst an environment of overall economic structural adjustment and slowing wage growth, the job market is shifting from scale expansion to refined recruitment. Although supported by the "new quality productive forces" policy in the short term, the room for wage premiums still faces convergence pressure.