How post-school education helps your work prospects and earnings
Four week ago I wrote about the recent release of
Australian Jobs 2013. As mentioned it’s the Department of Education,
Employment and Workplace Relations’ most recent edition of their
comprehensive annual Australian labour market update.
Australian Jobs 2013. As mentioned it’s the Department of Education,
Employment and Workplace Relations’ most recent edition of their
comprehensive annual Australian labour market update.
In that
blog I highlighted a range of statistics about employment relevant
to recruiters.
blog I highlighted a range of statistics about employment relevant
to recruiters.
Today I highlight one of the areas I did not cover in
that blog, which is the area of employment and earnings outcomes from
education and training as detailed in the DEEWR publication
Australian Jobs 2013.
that blog, which is the area of employment and earnings outcomes from
education and training as detailed in the DEEWR publication
Australian Jobs 2013.
(A) Unemployment and participation rates
- Australians who hold a bachelor degree or higher qualification have
the lowest unemployment rate (3.4% in 2011) and the highest labour
force participation rate (87.4%). - Those who hold vocational education qualifications at the advanced
diploma/diploma or certificate III or IV level also have relatively
low unemployment (4.0% and 4.3% respectively). - The
unemployment rates for workers who do not hold post-school
qualifications are markedly higher, particularly for those who left
school before completing Year 10 (12.2%). Those who left school
before the end of Year 10 have the lowest level of labour force
participation (45.5%).
(B) Full time employment for 2011 graduates within
4 months of their course completion
4 months of their course completion
- In the tertiary sector the strongest
graduate employment results, by specific discipline were:
- medicine and pharmacy (both 98.1%, but
this figure is influenced by registration year requirements, for
which the health sector provides places) - mining engineering (93.9%)
- surveying (93.0%)
- nursing – initial training (92.2%)
- civil engineering (90.5%)
- The poorest results were for Creative Arts (58.6% in full time
employment) and Physical and Natural Sciences (62.9%). - In the VET Sector (Cert I – IV plus Diplomas)
the strongest employment results were:
- Education (91.1%)
- Architecture and Building
(85.5%) - Engineering and Related
Technologies (83.9%) - Health (83.2%)
- Agriculture, Environmental
and Related (81%)
(C) Earnings
- People who did not complete Year 12 generally earn around 21% less
than someone whose highest educational attainment is an advanced
diploma or diploma, and around 42% less than a university graduate. - In 2012,
Graduate Careers Australia’s (GCA) figures show the median annual
starting salary for bachelor degree graduates aged younger than 25
years and in their first full-time job was $52,000, up by $2,000
from 2011. GCA’s analysis states that this was 77.8% of the annual
average male earnings ($66,800) at the time of the survey. - The highest earnings for tertiary graduates in
2012 were:
- Dentistry ($80,000)
- Optometry ($79,000)
- Earth Sciences ($73,000)
- Engineering ($63,000)
- Medicine ($60,000)
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The highest average salaries for VETScroll To Top
graduates in 2012 were for:- Education ($71,800)
- Engineering and Related Technologies
($58,500) - Natural and Physical Sciences ($57,500)
- Health ($55,800)
- Management and Commerce ($55,500)
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For those
who completed their VET training as part of an apprenticeship or
traineeship, the average starting salary was $46,500.Related articles: