**: Wisdom Valley TrendAuthor: Boundless
No matter how diverse the evaluation system in this world is, only one standard can always be effective in China, and everyone is pressed into the same evaluation system"How much is the monthly income"。
These four words have magical power, which stimulates people's nerves all the time and dominates the hot search on Weibo:
The monthly income of donating feces is 6,600 yuan;
The monthly income of cemetery cleaning is 8000;
Tsinghua female doctor graduated as an astrologer with a monthly income of 30,000 yuan;
Part-time Hanfu travel photography for aircraft repair students earns 20,000 yuan per month;
The post-90s one-legged driver earns more than 10,000 yuan a month from freight transportation;
The 19-year-old man resigned and learned that he had a monthly income of 30,000 or 40,000;
A 35-year-old woman earns 100,000 a month as a mason in Hong Kong.
Source: Weibo.
Most of the jobs with a monthly income of more than 10,000 yuan are delivery boys, freight drivers, astrologers, and masons. It seems to be the opposite of our stereotypes, and it has nothing to do with most people's professions.
In the past two years, everyone knows about the "decline of the old middle class", and more and more white-collar workers have become the "new poor" who have been superficial, while the blue-collar groups, which have been unknown, are rapidly accumulating wealth and have unexpectedly become the most solid force in the "new middle class".
Is the era of the all-round rise of blue-collar workers really coming?
Undergraduates are running all over the place, and technicians are nowhere to be found?
Undergraduates are running all over the place, and technical workers are nowhere to be found" has long been the norm.
A staggering set of data is that as of 2020, the population with a university education (meaning college degree or above) in China is 21.8 billion people, accounting for 15 percent of the total populationAbout 5 percent, or almost one in six people, is a higher education talent.
You know, in the same year, the population of South Korea was only 518360,000 people, and China's highly educated population is already 4 times the total population of South Korea, and it is no exaggeration to say that the scale is "rich and rivals the country".
The stock is already huge, and a steady stream of new additions is still on the way. In 2020, the number of fresh college graduates in the country was 8.74 million, and by 2023, this number is expected to reach 11.58 million.
Build one in five years"South Korea"！This oversupply"production"speed, it is no wonder that among the 2022 undergraduate graduates, nearly sixty percent (577%) The average monthly income is less than 6,000 yuan after half a year of graduation, and the proportion of monthly income above 10,000 yuan is only 69%。
Many college students who have just entered the workplace have experienced the beating of society and found that "they will return to poverty after graduation" - the pocket money of 3,000 has become a monthly salary of 3,000.
Source: Weibo.
From this point of view, this group of young people sitting in the office, drinking coffee, and receiving low salaries are the new bottom of the society with "decent scenery".
In contrast, the blue-collar group in the market has turned into a "new middle class", with an average monthly income that has increased significantly, and the gap with the white-collar group has narrowed and narrowed.
Source: "2023 China Blue-collar Group Employment Research Report".
According to the 2023 China Blue-Collar Group Employment Research Report, the average monthly income of blue-collar groups will increase from 2,684 yuan in 2012 to 6,043 yuan in 2023, which is the original 225 times. By contrast, the average monthly salary of white-collar workers has risen by only 30 percent in the past 11 years, a quarter of the increase for blue-collar workers.
Among them, the average salary of the confinement lady is as high as 8,824 yuan, followed by truck drivers with 7,641 yuan, delivery workers ranked third with 6,803 yuan, and the fourth and fifth places are online car-hailing drivers (6,380 yuan) and beauty salons (6,264 yuan) respectively
Source: "2023 China Blue-collar Group Employment Research Report".
If you turn your attention to real life, you may be surprised to find that many blue-collar workers have salaries much higher than this number, which truly explains what it means to "work more and get more" and "love to work hard to win".
Some time ago, Zhongjing Xinwei reported that a bricklayer recruited apprentices with a "monthly salary of 5,000 yuan including food and housing", and the monthly income of the bricklayer after learning could reach 2About 50,000 yuan.
Source: Weibo.
To learn a technology, you have to spend money to invite others, and you also have food and accommodation, which is worth a lot!
Poster News reported that in Jinan, Shandong, Xie Ensong, who was born in 1997, has been working as a mason for 9 years. In his second year as a mason, he bought a car worth more than 100,000 yuan, and bought a 120-square-meter off-plan house with a mortgage in the 7th year.
He also calculated an account, according to the work of a new house of 160 square meters, the construction period is 15 days, and a family of three can get about 40,000 yuan.
I don't know how many recent college graduates can be caught up in this kind of wealth accumulation speed.
In the report of The Paper, Chen Si, the takeaway runner who "earns 1.02 million yuan in 3 years", has received a high salary almost every month: in August 2023, his income on a takeaway platform will reach more than 40,000 yuan, 25,470 yuan in September of the same year, 19,497 yuan in October, and 25,786 yuan in November.
The rest of the "single kings" also showed a strong earning ability with a monthly income of 2w+.
In addition to the above-mentioned delivery people, the post-80s Shenzhen express brother interviewed by Bailu ** has an income of more than 1.4 million in 3 years, and his income reached a new high of more than 600,000 last year.
Source: Weibo.
This is a subversive thing that everyone knows. Why are the wages of blue-collar workers getting higher and higher?
Salary levels in almost all labor markets change"Supply and demand"The two words are related.
When everyone wants to be a white-collar worker and needs to be served, blue-collar workers who know technology naturally stand out.
For a long time in the past, we took it for granted that manual labor was an added value, and the most prominent case was that electrical appliances such as water pipes and air conditioners could be installed and repaired free of charge; Takeaway and express delivery can be delivered to your doorstep for free.
All kinds of services are basically gifts and packaging services for physical products, which are naturally not sold at a high price.
But I don't know when the white-collar workers who used to be generous began to complain that the labor force was getting higher and higher. This change is hidden"Cost of living"This vague big word.
For example, when you need a nurse or a confinement lady, open the boss Zhipin in Guangzhou, 300 yuan a day and 10,000 yuan a month are the most basic standards. If there is also demand on holidays, then this ** will be tripled up again, to 900 yuan a day.
Source: BOSS Zhipin.
Behind this change, apart from the deep-rooted professional outlook, values and other simple factors, the country's development trajectory has changed, which is the huge driving force of this new trend.
When China's GDP in 2023 enters 12606 trillion yuan, per capita GDP has reached 1$270,000, but China's working-age population continues to decline.
Source: China Economic Data.
At the end of 2023, the working-age population aged 16-59 in the country will be about 86.4 billion people, a decrease of 10.75 million compared to 2022.
In the already limited working population, the size of China's blue-collar group has reached 400 million, which seems to be relatively large, but the market has already entered"Recruitment is difficult"The stage of waiting to be fed——
The ratio of skilled workers is more than 15, that is, there are only 100 job seekers for every 150 positions, and the ratio of senior technicians has even reached more than 2, and the shortage of blue-collar senior technicians has reached tens of millions.
And when the labor gap is bigger, the era of Chinese labor is more valuable, will also roar.
It is worth looking to the other side of the developed world where China is about to arrive, where there is a precedent.
A Chinese blogger living in California shared a story on YouTube - his family's water pipe leaked, and from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., he chiseled many walls for rewiring, which cost 1,850 knives (equivalent to about 12,950 yuan), and this does not include the cost of subsequent wall repair and wall painting.
The other company they consulted was as high as 5,800 dollars (equivalent to about 40,600 yuan), and this only included one more wall repair service, nor did it include the follow-up wall painting service.
In the end, in order to save money, the blogger's family can only teach themselves to mend and paint the wall.
Source: YouTube
And the wealthy Europeans in our impression are not even willing to install air conditioners. The reason behind this is ironic – the installation cost of air conditioners is so high that they far exceed the price of air conditioners.
For example, the ordinary split air conditioner in Europe is generally about 800 euros (about 6240 yuan), but in an interview with the people, the installation fee of the air conditioner of an air conditioning installation company in Europe went to 1000-3000 euros (equivalent to 7800 yuan - 23400 yuan), and sometimes it also needs to add 60 euros (equivalent to 468 yuan) of working hours and materials.
Source: People's International.
In addition, according to a report by the United Kingdom in March last year, due to the extreme shortage of skilled bricklayers, skilled bricklayers can earn 2,500 pounds (about 2 yuan) per week250,000 yuan), with an annual salary of more than 1250,000 pounds (about RMB 112.)50,000 yuan), and the junior bricklaying apprentice can also earn 50,000 pounds (about 450,000 yuan) a year.
In addition to the familiar technical work of repairing water pipes, installing air conditioners, and laying bricks, there is also a series of "blue-collar shortages" in Europe. In the UK's "shortage occupation list", there are construction industry workers such as roof repairers, carpenters, and plasterers. Canada, Australia, New Zealand and other countries have also opened their arms to many blue-collar tradespeople.
There is no doubt that most of the current talent introduction programs in developed regions attract blue-collar labor.
At present, many smart Chinese who are good at seizing opportunities have gradually occupied the blue-collar market in Europe and the United States by virtue of their slightly lower ** and "ingenuity".
Source: Zhihu.
Maybe there will be such a day:
In the future, China will also reduce the difficulty of visas and immigration for blue-collar skilled workers in other underdeveloped regions because of the lack of blue-collar workers.
When blue-collar workers become the most promising profession in China in the future, now is the best time to learn skills.
Typically, there are three types of blue-collar workers: plain blue, sharp blue, and dark blue.
Plain blue and dark blue generally refer to the people engaged in manual labor, and Sharp Blue is the middle transition class, which may belong to the blue-collar class at this stage, but is changing to the white-collar class.
As a senior blue-collar worker, Deep Blue has a high threshold and salary, and requires workers to be able to master a professional technology and have sufficient experience.
When the general environment has undergone essential changes, it is better to let them learn a general technology as soon as possible and accumulate social experience and resources in advance, rather than forcing children who are not suitable for learning to study hard in the sea of books and carving all kinds of elegant arts that are not useful.
The recent "cliff-like decline" in piano sales, which has attracted attention, is a strong example.
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It's no wonder that overseas real middle class began to cultivate children's hands-on skills early on - learning to cook, repair cars, repair electrical appliances, and repair lawns. At least when you break into the society later, you don't panic.
After all, under the current employment situation and salary standards for undergraduates, the make-up fees spent by various chicken babies may not even be able to recover their costs.
Not to mention that the make-up fee continues to increase with the grade, and the relatively cheap large class is only suitable for self-disciplined students, many parents of students are forced to report hundreds or even thousands of one-on-one lessons per class hour, and "spend money to buy guilt".
The hard-earned money went into the pockets of the tutoring institutions in a blink of an eye, and parents also "dared to be angry but did not dare to speak".
The market is always one step ahead of real demand. Since the "double reduction" policy in 2021, extracurricular training has been hit hard, and technical colleges have sprung up.
In the Ministry of Education's "National List of Colleges and Universities", as of 2023, there will be a total of 1,578 higher vocational colleges in the country (57 more than in 2022), far exceeding the number of undergraduate colleges (1,275), including 1,545 vocational schools at the junior college level and 33 vocational schools at the undergraduate level.
The average size of vocational colleges is also expanding year by year, and more and more parents are sending their children to learn technology.
Source: Baijiahao focuses on vocational education.
The number of vocational universities at the undergraduate level, which was once scarce, has also increased by 11 after the start of the "double reduction" policy in 2021, and the number has reached 33 so far.
These vocational universities are also bachelor's degrees, which puts many parents who are worried about academic discrimination at ease.
Source: Ministry of Education.
The road ahead is not easy, although it is not so easy for blue-collar workers to become rich and expensive, as long as they work hard, there is no problem with worry-free food and clothing.
Perhaps, in the next few decades, entering a technical school is the best choice in the new era.