The Graduate Market in 2015
Summary • Graduate starting salaries at the UK’s leading graduate employers are expected to increase for the second year running in 2015, reaching a median of £30,000 for the first time. • More than a quarter of top graduate programmes will pay new recruits more than £35,000 when they start work and four organisations are offering salaries in excess of £45,000 to this year’s graduates. • The most generous salaries in 2015 are those on offer from investment banks (median of £45,000) , law firms (median of £40,000) , banking & finance firms (median of £36,500) and oil & energy companies (median of £32,500) . • The highest published graduate starting salaries for 2105 are at Aldi (£42,000) and the European Commission (£41,500) . • There is little evidence that graduate starting salaries are rising in reaction to the introduction of higher university tuition fees – most employers that have opted to increase their graduate pay in either 2014 or 2015 appear to have done so in order to compete effectively with other employers recruiting graduates.
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