Talent hunting! Amazon's base salary for operations staff is 12K after the new year, are talented people going out to work on their own?

Amazon's operating wages skyrocketed this year?

Since the beginning of the year, whether in WeChat Moments, industry exchange groups, or even major industry forums, you can see posts like "Urgently recruiting Amazon operations (Shenzhen Futian /Guangzhou Panyu )" everywhere.

One can't help but wonder, is Amazon's operations really that scarce now? In this case, how much has Amazon's operations salary increased?

Amazon operations salaries skyrocketed? Headhunters: Senior operations base salary is 12k

Recently, the wave of resignations in the industry has left many people stunned. One seller lamented the fierceness of the resignation wave in March and said: "I found that the operations of the company next door were all gone. This morning I suddenly saw the boss next door sitting there alone packing up."

Job postings operated by Amazon have also been caught up in this wave of resignations and are continuing to surge with the wave.

Looking around, the job postings floating on the wave all have very attractive salary packages, and most of the basic salaries start at 8k.

Is this really the case?

A post published by a seller on a social platform with the subject line: "How much has Amazon's operating salary increased at the beginning of the year?" gives us a glimpse of the answer.

From the comments, we can see that there are indeed cases where the basic salary is 8K, and if you have worked for one year and have experience in selling hit products, you can get 9K, but there are also cases where the basic salary is 4.5K. There is even an operator who said that he has worked for 7 years and his basic salary has not changed for N years, and it has always been 2K.

In addition, in the comment section, an active operator said that the base salary has indeed increased this year, but the increase is not too large. It has only been adjusted from 4K before the New Year to 5k.

Regarding this year's recruitment situation, the editor also asked a headhunter. He said that he is currently recruiting for a cross-border e-commerce team in a new first-tier city. "The team offers a base salary of 5K for fresh graduates , and each person gets a different commission. Some get 3-5% of the gross profit margin , some get 1% of sales, and the base salary for senior operations is 12K."

From the job openings posted on a domestic recruitment website, we can see that the salary for Amazon operations is not as high as most people expected, but rather there is a clear polarization, with the highest salary reaching 10-15K and the lowest salary reaching 4-7K.

Despite this, it is an indisputable fact that Amazon's operating wages are increasing year by year.

According to relevant data from Zhiyouji , the average salary for Amazon operations in 2020 was 9.4K, an increase of 13% from 2019. The salary in 2019 was 8.3K, the salary in 2018 was 7.9K, and in 2017 and 2016 it was only 7.2K.

Nowadays, amid the wave of resignations, various Amazon operation recruitment posts are still surging. I think this is inseparable from the saying: " It is easy to find newbies, but it is difficult to find senior talents. " Graduates have low salaries and are easy to recruit, but Amazon talents with certain experience are difficult to find. Because this industry has a realistic problem to face, that is, the probability that capable operators will eventually work alone is very high.

Behind the sudden increase in monthly salary of Amazon operators: independent workers "fleeing"

Although Amazon's operations wages skyrocketed after the year, according to statistics from Zhiyouji, the development prospects were on the rise from 2015 to 2019. In 2020, the growth rate of Amazon's operations actually dropped by 32%, which is reflected in the decline in the number of Amazon operations recruitment positions, from 22,286 positions to 15,197.

Although the statistics of recruitment websites may be a little biased, as far as 2020 is concerned, due to the outbreak of the epidemic, fewer employees resigned from their original companies and recruiters also reduced the number of recruitments, which may be the main reason.

In addition, some industry insiders speculate that the decrease in the number of Amazon operations recruitments may be partly due to the fact that some Amazon distribution companies have transformed into boutique companies, and the number of talents needed will gradually decrease. (As we all know, in the industry, operations with boutique experience are more popular than those with distribution experience, and boutique operations seek quality rather than quantity.)

Although the demand for recruitment is very strong, some capable operators have already worked steadily in the same company. Even when many operators have started working alone at the right time, such as in the middle of last year, the difficulty of recruiting in cross-border companies will be greatly increased.

March happens to be a golden period for job seekers, but it is also a peak period for resignations in cross-border operations. Some sellers said that during the peak recruitment season of March and April, Amazon has a large flow of talent, with some people coming for interviews after work and leaving after finding a new job.

Behind the wave of resignations in March, many capable operators are actually going "alone"↓↓

"Those who are capable have gone out to work on their own. Those who stay to work are either incompetent or are seeking experience. It is difficult for bosses to recruit independent talents from among job seekers. There are many job seekers in the cross-border e-commerce industry who try to take advantage of the situation and cheat by talking nonsense."

"I had planned to work on my own before. I didn't want to be constrained by the company system. Even if I make less money, I am still happy to be able to make money freely."

"I have been working on my own for half a year and now I have more than 10 orders a day. I hope I can get 50 orders this year."

"Cross-border e-commerce took off in 2020 due to the epidemic. If you are an experienced operator with resources, you will think that if you don't go it alone now, when should you go it alone? Now that capital continues to flow into the cross-border e-commerce market, there is not much time left for those who go it alone."

However, the editor here does not advocate that all operators should work alone, because starting a business is not easier than working for others. Behind the freedom and making more money are endless efforts, or even huge losses. Therefore, whether to quit your job or work alone depends on your personal ability and choice. To sum it up in one sentence: There are risks in falling into the "pit", and you need to be cautious when working alone.

Those Amazon operations interviews that were tricked

As March and April are the peak recruitment seasons, both recruiters and job seekers will encounter some strange things.

For example, when an Amazon operations manager was applying for a job, he found that the written test would take one or two hours. So, what exactly is the difficult question that takes one or two hours to write?

In fact, the question is also simple, just ask a few questions ↓↓

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The entire written test consists of about 25 questions, and it is estimated that the interviewee will have to use all his life's skills to answer them. However, with such detailed and practical written test questions, I wonder what the applicants actually mean. Do they want to collect the operating skills of other companies, or do they really want to test their true operating capabilities? We don't know.

A seller shared this picture in the community. Of course, you can’t write this during an interview.

An operation said this about the interview: "Some companies directly ask what products I worked on before and how I made them. I can tell they are here to test my experience. It's understandable if they ask me what category I worked on before, but it's more like "emmm" to ask me what products I work on and how I made them. You know."

Another operator said: "I went to a company for an interview before. I had to take a typing speed test first. Only those who passed the test could enter the second round of interviews. There were a group of people at the time. Then the interviewer came in and said which ones could go."

Whether you are an interviewer or an applicant, facing the golden period of March and April, you should seize the time and work hard to find more talents and better jobs.