Which job has the highest salary for new graduates?

Navigos Group's 2025 salary and labor market report based on a survey of more than 3,400 candidates and 500 multinational enterprises in Vietnam shows that new graduates in some professions have exceptionally high salaries.

Navigos Group has just released the 2025 Salary and Labor Market Report. The report is based on a survey of more than 3,400 candidates and 500 multinational enterprises in Vietnam, providing in-depth analysis of recruitment trends, necessary skills and advice from human resources experts for workers, including new graduates, and businesses.

Business - sales recruiting the most

Accordingly, in 2025, despite the trend of increasing recruitment, most businesses are still cautious, with only 37.36% planning to recruit less than 10% more staff and 29.81% expecting an increase from 10% to less than 20%.

New graduates need to improve their skills, especially in AI-related fields.

Specifically, businesses continue to prioritize recruiting personnel with 1 to 3 years of experience (55.47%) and 3 to 5 years of experience (27.36%). The most recruited positions are in the fields of business/sales (59.43%), production (33.02%) and customer service (24.34%).

In terms of skills, businesses highly value problem-solving ability (73.06%) and effective communication (63%), along with foreign language skills, analytical thinking and flexible adaptation.

The report highlights the explosion of artificial intelligence (AI) technology in the job search process and the trend of flexible working. AI is increasingly being used by candidates to optimize their CVs, search for jobs, look up company information, practice interviews and develop skills.

However, only 18.45% of candidates have used or are using AI in their job search, while 81.55% have not yet accessed this technology. Among popular AI tools, ChatGPT leads with 66.54% of users, followed by Gemini (15.53%) and Copilot (7.21%).

Software, energy, oil and gas fields have the highest salaries for new graduates

Regarding the salary of 16 industry groups that Navigos surveyed, the majority of industry groups have starting salaries for new graduates/under 2 years of experience ranging from 7-12 million VND/month or 10-15 million VND. For example, the customer service department of the freight forwarding supply chain is 7.6-12.7 million VND/month, finance and accounting is 10-15 million VND/month...

However, there are some industries and jobs with higher starting salaries such as supply chain (sourcing, business, purchasing, logistics, warehousing) at 12.7-20.3 million VND/month; marketing business in the hotel, restaurant, and tourism sectors at 12.7-17.8 million VND/month...

Fresh graduates working in software development have the highest salaries

In particular, new graduates working as software developers in Hanoi have the highest salary of 20.3 million VND/month, while in Ho Chi Minh City it is from 20.4-50.8 million VND/month.

In the energy, oil and gas, architecture/design sectors, the highest salary is 20.3 million VND/month (Hanoi) and 25.4 million VND/month (HCMC); business development is 15.2-25.4 million VND/month in both Hanoi and HCMC, engineering is 21 million VND/month, finance and accounting is 27.9 million VND/month (Hanoi) and 20.3 million VND/month (HCMC).

New jobs will appear in Vietnam

According to the report, Vietnam is entering a period of strong development with the explosion of the digital economy and digital transformation, creating many new job opportunities in fields such as information technology, banking and finance, manufacturing and logistics.

Demand for human resources in some industries is increasing but still facing a shortage of high-quality workers. In particular, positions such as data scientist, AI researcher, machine learning engineer and data researcher are becoming more important than ever.

In addition, the logistics industry in Vietnam is also lacking human resources, especially in the maritime and warehousing sectors, while the semiconductor industry is growing strongly thanks to policies to attract investment and train high-quality human resources.

Need to improve skills

Navigos Group leaders believe that in order to be well prepared when the market economy stabilizes and develops again, as well as to meet new-age recruitment requirements, workers need to improve their skills, especially in areas related to AI, data and digital technology.

In addition, it is necessary to focus on foreign languages, in which English, Chinese, Korean, and Japanese will be a great advantage when working in multinational companies; adapting to the new working model including the ability to work independently, manage time, and communicate online will be important factors.

Source: https://thanhnien.vn/cong-viec-nao-co-muc-luong-cao-nhat-cho-sinh-vien-moi-ra-truong-185250222114908415.htm