Human Resources Services Workers

How to become an Employee Relations Specialist

Official Chinese title (2022 occupational classification): 劳动关系协调师

Promotes labour and social security law, sets an organisation's labour standards and rules, manages employment contracts, takes part in collective bargaining and workplace communication, and prevents and resolves employment disputes.

Main tasks

Promoting labour and social security law, setting the organisation's labour standards in line with national, local and industry standards and managing how they are applied
Designing employment contract management in line with the law, choosing forms of employment, drafting contracts and handling signing, performance, changes, ending and termination
Representing one side in collective bargaining, signing collective agreements and seeing them carried out
Setting the organisation's workplace rules in line with the law and overseeing how they are applied
Designing workplace communication strategies, organising consultation and workers' congresses, overseeing how resolutions and agreements are carried out and setting up employee director and employee supervisor schemes
Designing early warning systems and dispute prevention strategies, taking employee grievances, organising consultation and mediation, representing one side in arbitration and lawsuits and handling group incidents under the law

Ways in

Vocational majors: Higher vocational college (高职专科) major: Labour and Social Security (590203). Vocational major 590203 Labour and Social Security (劳动与社会保障), 3 years. The Ministry of Education's 2022 major profiles list this occupation among those the major prepares students for (职业面向). Example certificates: Human Resources Shared Services; Compensation Management; Digital Human Resource Management.; Secondary vocational school (中职) major: Human Resources Administration (790202). Vocational major 790202 Human Resources Administration (人力资源管理事务), 3 years. The Ministry of Education's 2022 major profiles list this occupation among those the major prepares students for (职业面向). Example certificates: Digital Human Resource Management.; Secondary vocational school (中职) major: Social Security Administration (790203). Vocational major 790203 Social Security Administration (社会保障事务), 3 years. The Ministry of Education's 2022 major profiles list this occupation among those the major prepares students for (职业面向). Example certificates: Community Governance.

Pay · AI and this job

Median pay in China: CN¥49,600 a year (2025).
Middle half: CN¥36,500 to CN¥67,400. One in ten earn less than CN¥29,000 and one in ten more than CN¥96,600.
This is the figure for the mid group Leasing and Business Services Workers, not for this job alone.
National figure: wage prices of enterprise employees from the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security (MOHRSS) enterprise pay survey. The public sector and the self-employed are not covered.
Guangzhou only: median CN¥80,639 a year (2025), middle half CN¥59,735 to CN¥114,000.
This is the figure for the minor group Human Resources Services Workers, not for this job alone.
Generative AI could change some tasks in this job, by the ILO's global estimate.

Who does this work

The census group Leasing and Business Services Workers holds 0.92% of everyone employed in China; 29.3% of its workers are women (2020 Census).
37.1% are under 35, 43.5% are 35 to 54 and 19.4% are 55 or older. The middle age band is 40 to 44.
Census figures for the whole mid group (2020 long-form sample), not for this job alone.

Questions people ask

How do I become an Employee Relations Specialist?

Ways in include: Higher vocational college (高职专科) major: Labour and Social Security (590203); Secondary vocational school (中职) major: Human Resources Administration (790202).

How much does an Employee Relations Specialist earn in China?

Across China, the median pay of enterprise employees is CN¥49,600 a year (Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security (MOHRSS), 2025). The public sector and the self-employed are not covered. It is the figure for the mid group Leasing and Business Services Workers. In Guangzhou alone it is CN¥80,639 a year (2025).

Will AI change the work of an Employee Relations Specialist?

Generative AI could change some tasks in this job, by the ILO's global estimate.

Sources

Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security (MOHRSS): 2025 enterprise pay survey information: wage prices of enterprise employees by occupation mid group, and digital occupations (P10 to P90 annual CNY) (2025 (published 2026-07-08)), retrieved 5 October 2026
Guangzhou Human Resources and Social Security Bureau: Guangzhou 2025 labour market wage prices (P10 to P90 annual CNY by occupation) (2025 (enterprise pay survey)), retrieved 4 October 2026
National Bureau of Statistics of China: China Population Census Yearbook 2020, long-form tables 4-6 and 4-7 (employed by occupation mid group, sex, age) (2020 Census long form (10% sample)), retrieved 4 October 2026
International Labour Organization, Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure (ILO Working Paper 140, Gmyrek et al.) (ILO Working Paper 140, May 2025, Annex Table A1), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026

Sources: Occupational Classification of the People's Republic of China (2022 edition, public consultation draft), Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, State Administration for Market Regulation and National Bureau of Statistics; Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, 2025 enterprise pay survey information; Guangzhou Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, 2025 labour market wage prices; National Bureau of Statistics of China (www.stats.gov.cn), 2020 Population Census yearbook; Ministry of Education, vocational education major profiles (2022 revision) and undergraduate major catalogue (2025); Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, national vocational qualifications catalogue (2021); O*NET interest scores (CC BY 4.0); ILO global generative AI exposure index (CC BY 4.0). Figures processed by Peernovo. English text, translations and the matching of occupations to ISCO-08, majors, degree fields and qualifications by Peernovo.

Descriptions and tasks are Peernovo's own words, written from the facts in the Occupational Classification of the People's Republic of China (2022 edition). Job titles and work types are the classification's own.

Updated 5 October 2026