Starting salaries in HR 2016: What do junior recruiters earn? {Trend! study}

For many it is HR-Department a long-targeted Objective. For others, employment in human resources only arises during the course of their studies or after a few years in the job. Compensation Partner has determined the starting salaries for the area of ​​activity “Human Resources”.

Academic career starters in human resource management

In spring 2016, we also looked at the composition of employees in the human resources department, as well as the academic background of most HR professionals.

For the starting salaries, we were able to evaluate data sets from academic employees with less than three years of professional experience. With the average highest salary personnel officers end up in the Recruiting in first place in our rankings. At the beginning of your career, you can count on around 46.000 euros gross per year.

Further personnel are employed in personnel development (45.121 Euro) and in personnel consulting (40.483 Euro). The average annual salaries for beginners are for 39.897 Euro traders, 37.183 Euro employees and 35.828 Euro staff members.

HR entry containers with completed vocational training

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We also looked at the wages of newcomers who start their careers with a completed vocational training in the HR field. Here too, speakers for personnel procurement and personnel development are ranked first in the ranking. However, and that is the difference, we can make a salary difference of around 10.000 Euro annually:

Salaries for young professionals in recruitment average EUR 37.795, and EUR 36.663 in development. Following Young Professionals in administration (EUR 30.546), in personnel consulting (EUR 30.546) and as a trainer (EUR 29.264). With an average of 28.395 euros, personnel dispatchers receive the comparatively lowest salary even with completed vocational training.

Not infrequently decide Employees in HR management are encouraged to expand their own specialist knowledge with a supplementary one after completing their vocational training Study - for example human resources management or business administration. Also one Further Training to become a personnel management graduate is possible. Experience has shown that employees can then expect to take on managerial tasks and accordingly receive higher salaries. It can even make it possible to enter the management level.

Size as an important factor in salary

A further important factor in the influence on the amount of the salary is the company size.

Little one Companys With fewer than 100 employees, their academic entry-level employees pay an average of 39.089 Euro. Employees with a staff size between 101 and 1.000 employees pay graduates of universities and colleges around 42.816 Euro. HR beginners in corporations or large companies (more than 1001 employees) even get around 48.300 Euro at the beginning of their careers.

The starting salaries for graduates of vocational training are also falling with regard to the size of the company clear lower: In small companies they come to an average of 28.534 euros, in medium-sized companies to an average of 32.954 euros. The annual salary of young professionals who have completed their Vocational Training is in large companies with more than 1001 employees at an average of 35.386 euros per year.

Salary difference depending on company size:

Academic part in human resources

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In an analysis from the May 2016, we have also determined, using 4.462 data sets, whether and which academic backgrounds have employees in the human resources sector: In this case, we were able to establish a fairly large heterogeneity:

We determined the largest proportion of university graduates (55 percent) in Job "Personnel developer", closely followed by the personnel officer with a share of 49,4 percent. Amazingly, according to the study, only 43,2 percent of HR managers have a college degree. This shows that a career in the highest personnel level is possible even without an academic background.

Psychotherapists: Psychology and jurisprudence are not a rarity

If HREmployees have an academic degree, this does not always have to be a subject-related degree in “HR management”. We were able to determine that 48 percent of the employees had a degree in economics. This is not surprising, since numerous economics courses offer a focus on human resources.

9,9 percent of employees were enrolled in “law” before starting their careers, and another 9 percent in a degree in “social sciences”. At 8 percent, one of the most common courses of study for employees in human resources is “Psychology".

The following are followed by postgraduate students (6,7 per cent) and students with a degree in language and cultural sciences (4,7 per cent) and engineering sciences (2,3 per cent).

Further education as a useful supplement

All in all, lateral entrants, even with a non-topic course, have a very good chance of making a career in human resources - at least in recruiting and applicant management. Previous knowledge of Communication and Coaching as well as business thinking are definitely beneficial. However, administrative tasks or topics with a focus on labor law often require specific specialist and application knowledge that employees do not always acquire through “learning on the job”. In such cases, workshops and training courses are recommended.

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