The given line chart illustrates the proportions of Maths and other graduates from a university in Australia who were employed full-time from 2004-2012, while the table compares how much they earned on average during the period surveyed.
Overall, the percentage of maths and other students who got full-time jobs after graduation experienced a downward trend. One other notable point from the table is that although the average salary of both these types of graduates was the same at the first two years and increased at the end of the period, maths graduates earned more than their peers over the last four years of the period.
In the first two years, the percentage of students who were employed after graduation witnessed an upwards trend. The figure for Maths graduates who got their jobs reached a peak in the third year, constituted 90%, while the counterparts who had their highest percentage two years later, made up for about 87%. After that, the maths graduates who launched jobs witnessed a 10% drop in the last year, remaining the same fraction as the first year. The former trend is also true for the other graduates as the proportion steadily declined from nearly two thirds, which was lower than that of maths graduates.
From 2004 to 2006, both kinds of students earned the same, receiving 41000 and 43000 respectively. From then onwards, both figures continued to rise. Maths graduates were paid more than their peers, accounting for 9000 dollars higher in the last years of the period.