The semiconductor body is short of only 34,000 people every month! Category: Median annual salary of IC design engineers 1.78 million

Tech 10:46am, 1 August 2025 137

104 The Human Resources Bank and the Institute of Technology released the "2025 Semiconductor Talent Report", which investigated the semi-conductor talent gap of 34,000 in May, of which nearly 10,000 people were missing per month, while "non-supervisory positions" ranked first with a median annual salary of IC design engineers of 1.78 million, and the median annual salary of "supervisory positions" of hardware engineering research and development supervisors of 1.81 million.

Observing the trend of semiconductor talent recruitment, the data from the "2025 Semiconductor Talent Report" found that since the second half of 2023, among which the technical positions are particularly obvious, there are 10,000 people in "production and manufacturing/quality management/circuitry" short of "research and development" short of 9,000 people; 7,000 people in "operation/technology/repair" short of 7,000 people, reflecting the expansion of advanced processes and advanced packaging lines, and the demand for machine operators has increased.

The top three jobs in the semiconductor talent gap, "operation/technology/maintenance" can only be assigned to each worker with 0.2 job seekers on average, which is extremely tight; "production/management/circulation" can only be assigned to each worker due to complex processes; and "research and development" can only be assigned to each worker with a comprehensive expansion of AI applications, and on average, each worker with 0.45 job seekers on average.

As for the talents that semiconductors want to recruit, "Production and Manufacturing/Quality Management/Environmental Classes" and "Operation/Technology/Maintenance" are all for mechanical product troubleshooting and repair, improvement of equipment problems and function improvement, and maintenance of motor equipment to ensure that the equipment is maintained normally, avoid shutdown, and support the overall process to smoothly carry out; "R&D" skills are electronic circuit system design, category IC circuit design, digital circuit design and verification.

104 The Human Resources Bank and the Institute of Technology jointly released the "2025 Semiconductor Talent Report", which compiled the five salary lists. First, in "non-supervisory positions", the median annual salary of "Category Design Engineer" is higher than that of 1.78 million yuan, followed by 1.57 million yuan for "Digital IC Design Engineer", showing that IC design has extremely high technical points and additional value in the semiconductor value chain.

Salary List 2 survey explores the salary of the "supervisor" of the semiconductor industry. The highest salary is the median annual salary of the hardware engineering research and development supervisor 1.81 million, followed by 1.7 million business management supervisor, showing the importance of technology and management integration capabilities. Among them, the third place in the marketing supervisor is 1.59 million, showing the importance of semiconductor industry in market promotion. Even the annual salary of finance, purchasing, and projects exceeds one million.

Salary List Three Surveys, How High is the Salary Growth? Data from the "2025 Semiconductor Talent Report" shows that the annual salary of other special engineers has increased by 21.1%, ranking first. Through their career layout, it will account for new technologies or market pioneers. Among them, the median salary of digital IC design engineers is second, "non-supervisory position", and the growth rate is still 16.6%, ranking fourth.

Four surveys on the salary list, among the five jobs with the highest median annual salary of "supervisors" in 2025, the ranking was the top with "project business managers" with a growth of 19.9%; followed by 14.9% in operation management and 13.3% in administrative managers; the median annual salary of the hardware engineering research and development managers ranked first in supervisors, and their salary increased by 9.7% in fifth place, showing their emphasis on core technologies of "research and development" and "hardware".

Five surveys on the salary list, the average annual salary of the top ten high-salary jobs is generally higher than the median. Among them, the annual salary gap between "foreign business supervisors" and "digital IC design engineers" is more than 200,000 yuan, which means that a small number of high-salary cases have increased the overall salary. Therefore, it is recommended that HR should also observe P25, P50 (median), P75 and other data during salary evaluation to avoid providing too high or too low salary markets for those seeking jobs.

The supervisor and non-supervisors are divided into sections. Four of the top ten high-paying jobs are non-supervisors, and the job nature is divided into sections. Among the top ten high-paying jobs, 7 are related to research and development, reflecting that in an industry with intensive knowledge and rapid technological evolution, "technology is the kingdom."

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