VietNamNet Bridge - Some Vietnamese companies have confirmed they are willing to offer monthly pay of $2,000 to new university graduates.

Le Quang Tien, former vice president of FPT, the Vietnamese largest information technology group, conducted a mini survey on salaries for new graduates after a debate about the issue was raised. 

A debate among the public had occurred after Pham Thi Thanh, a university student, asked “How can I need to learn and work to to receive a starting salary of $2,000?”.

The question by the student of the Academy of Cryptographic Techniques, raised at a discussion on the role and responsibility of the young generation in the information society, was seen as unreasonable. 

Some Vietnamese companies have confirmed they are willing to offer monthly pay of $2,000 to new university graduates.

A report of VietnamWorks, one of the best known job networks in Vietnam, showed that new school graduates can expect the pay of between $251 and $500 a month, or 4-8 times lower than the dreamed level. 

VietnamWorks confirmed that no case of new school graduates receiving such a high salary level has been recorded in its database. 


However, FPT Software, a subsidiary of FPT, specializing in making software products and CMC, also a technology firm, said they are willing to pay $2,000 to coders who are fluent in Japanese.

McKenzie also said it would offer the salary to finance consultancy officers, and some companies would give the sum to IT administrators.

However, Hoang Nam Tien, president of FPT Software, stressed that the $2,000 salary would only be offered to candidates fluent in Japanese, with N2 or N1 certificates and programming languages, who were recruited and worked in Japan. 

Meanwhile, a source from Viettel, a military firm, said Viettel pays $2,000 a month to some new graduates who have special requirements. The employees belong to a group of special workers who commit to work for Viettel for 10 years and accept to work on site if they are sent to any foreign market that Viettel invests in.

The group is called the ’10-year workers’. It includes a young officer, who discontinued  study for a master’s degree at Hanoi Law School and joined Viettel. The officer has left for Tanzania. 

Truong Gia Binh, president of FPT, commented that it is not difficult for new graduates to have a $2,000 salary. However, at FPT, only 155 officers receive more than $2,000 and none of them are new graduates.

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