What is the average graduate salary?
Latest HR & Compliance Centre research examines the starting salaries and increases offered to graduates in the 2010/11 hiring round. The median starting salary in 2010/11 is £22,550, 6% lower than the median graduate starting salary offered in 2009/2010.
- HR & Compliance Centre graduate recruitment survey 2010: salary prospects The easing of the economic crisis is yet to have an upwards impact on graduate starting salaries, the increases and levels of which have not kept up with pay rises and earnings across the economy generally.
- Full data from the 2010/11 HR & Compliance Centre graduate recruitment survey: starting salaries and increases is available from HR & Compliance Centre Benchmarking.
Also
Graduate recruitment: the 2009/10 survey Our 20th annual survey found that current demand for graduates had tailed off slightly but employers were optimistic about future hiring prospects. Online recruitment methods remained the most common and effective way of attracting good quality candidates while assessments were widely regarded as the most successful selection tool.
The graduate recruitment survey 2008/09 Our 2008/09 survey of graduate recruitment looked at hiring prospects; highlighted the most effective ways that employers have devised to find and select the best graduates; analysed starting salaries; and mapped trends in improving selection techniques.
