Who's Hiring Westerners in China: October 2026 Data

In short

On 17 October 2026, SilkPath listed 427 live jobs open to Western professionals: 245 in mainland China, 102 in Hong Kong and 80 in Taiwan. Hong Kong, Taipei and Shanghai had the most roles, and teaching and education accounted for 157 of them. In the 94 ads that stated a monthly salary in yuan (all in mainland China), the median was ¥23,000, with half between ¥17,500 and ¥27,400.

Every figure on this page is calculated from the jobs live on SilkPath on 17 October 2026 at 20:05 UTC, not from a survey or an estimate. The method, and its limits, are explained at the end. We update this page every month.

Jobs by territory

Territory	Live jobs	Share
Mainland China	245	57%
Hong Kong	102	24%
Taiwan	80	19%

Jobs by city

City	Live jobs	Share
Hong Kong	102	24%
Taipei	58	14%
Shanghai	51	12%
Beijing	34	8%
Shenzhen	24	6%
Guangzhou	16	4%
Chengdu	9	2%
Chongqing	7	2%
Hangzhou	7	2%
New Taipei	6	1%
Other cities	69	16%
City not specified (mainland China)	44	10%

Hong Kong is counted as one city. 37 other cities had at least one live job.

Jobs by type of role

Type of role	Live jobs	Mainland China	Hong Kong	Taiwan
Corporate and other roles	222	122	44	56
Teaching and education	157	112	31	14
Internships	39	9	20	10
Volunteering	9	2	7	0

Who is posting the most jobs

The organisations with the most live ads, as named in the ad. Some are recruitment agencies hiring for clients.

Employer or recruiter	Live jobs
DBS Bank Ltd	14
NXP Semiconductors	10
New Peak Recruitment	10
China Global Connections	9
Elevate	9
BASIS International Schools	8
Binance	7
English Schools Foundation	7
Parfums Christian Dior	6
Hong Kong Metropolitan University	6

Salaries: what employers advertise

Only 94 of the 427 ads (22%) state a monthly salary in yuan, all for jobs in mainland China. Ads in Hong Kong and Taiwan in our feed did not state a salary. Figures are the middle of the advertised range, usually before tax.

Group	Ads	Middle half of ads	Median
All ads with a monthly salary	94	¥17,500–¥27,400	¥23,000
Teaching and education	73	¥18,000–¥27,500	¥23,500
Corporate and other roles	21	¥12,500–¥26,500	¥19,000

City (10 ads or more)	Ads	Middle half of ads	Median
Beijing	16	¥22,900–¥27,500	¥25,000
Guangzhou	12	¥16,200–¥26,000	¥22,500
Shanghai	11	¥20,100–¥28,000	¥22,500

9 more ads pay by the hour, from about ¥100 to ¥1,000 an hour, mostly for teaching. Part-time work still needs a work permit tied to an employer.

Method

Source: the 427 jobs published on SilkPath on 17 October 2026 at 20:05 UTC. SilkPath collects English-language roles open to foreigners in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan from public job listings (mainly LinkedIn, eChinaCities and Jooble) and removes each ad after 30 days, so the snapshot covers ads posted in the previous 30 days.
Cities: districts are grouped with their city (for example New Taipei is separate from Taipei, and every Hong Kong district counts as Hong Kong). Some mainland ads only say “China”: they are counted as “city not specified”.
Type of role: an ad counts as teaching and education when it is labelled as teaching or when its title contains a teaching word (teacher, ESL, tutor, lecturer, professor, kindergarten, school, faculty and similar). Internships and volunteering come from the ad label or the word “intern”. Everything else is “corporate and other roles”. A keyword rule can misclassify a few titles.
Salaries: only monthly amounts in yuan stated by the employer. For a range we take the middle; ads with only a maximum (“up to”), hourly rates, yearly packages and other currencies are left out of the medians. Amounts are rounded to the nearest ¥100. These are advertised figures, not what people are paid.
Limits: this is one month of one job board, not the whole market. It shows who is actively advertising in English for foreign candidates.

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