Nguyen Thi Thu Huong, CEO of Kinh Bac Urban Development Corporation, emerged as Vietnam's highest-paid executive in 2023, with an annual income of 17 billion VND. Her earnings outpaced those of banking and finance leaders.

The overall salary increase this year is 7.9 per cent at local companies, 0.2 percentage points higher than last year.

For the first time in many years, the starting salary of new graduates from Vietnamese universities and overseas universities is the same (443.5 USD, per month), according to the Talent-Mercer Total Remuneration Survey (TRS) 2022.

High-tech, Chemical, and Trading leading the way in salary increases in 2019, Mercer-Talentnet survey finds.