Is the national average monthly recruitment salary in the first quarter 10,101 yuan?

According to relevant news reports, the national average monthly recruitment salary in the first quarter was 10,101 yuan, and cities in the Yangtze River Delta continued to lead the increase. The average monthly recruitment salary in the capital Beijing was 13,251 yuan.

Now is the "Gold, Three, Silver and Four" recruitment season. Various topics related to job hunting are frequently trending on Weibo, and the public attaches great importance to this matter.

A recruitment platform released the "Chinese Enterprise Recruitment Salary Report" which caused heated discussion. The report showed that in the first quarter of 2023, the average recruitment salary of enterprises in 38 cities was 10,101 yuan/month, a slight increase of 0.9 year-on-year. %. However, from a quarter-on-quarter perspective, there was a "seasonal decline" in salary in the first quarter, a 4.3% decrease from 10,558 yuan in the fourth quarter of 2022.

The report lists 38 core cities across the country. The report shows that Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen and Hangsu led the salary level in the first quarter, ranking among the top five. Shanghai tops the list with monthly recruitment of 13,433 yuan, followed closely by the capital Beijing with monthly salary of 13,251 yuan. Shenzhen and Hangzhou are 12,668 yuan and 11,737 yuan respectively. It is worth noting that Suzhou entered the top five for the first time, with a recruitment salary of 11,037 yuan exceeding Guangzhou (10,913 yuan).

Netizens expressed dissatisfaction with this report and believed that the averaged data was just "whitewashing". It is obviously unreasonable to use the salary of high-paid workers to raise the overall average, and then use this data to represent the "average" ordinary people. Such data is undoubtedly a manifestation of "promoting hatred", causing unemployed young people to blindly pursue "high salary" and form an inherent mindset, believing that working in the cities mentioned in the report can get the salary in the data.

Some people think that in order to obtain meaningful data, while finding the average, the median should also be released. Perhaps the median will be more "down-to-earth".