The line graph shows the proportions of math students and all students at a certain university who got full time employment after graduation while the table compares their average salaries between 2004 and 2012.
Overall, students with math degree showed higher percentages in getting full time job after university and even they earned more money compared to others.
In the line graph, four out of five math graduates were hired for a full-time position in 2004. In the same year, the number was just over 60% for other graduates. The employment rate for math degree peaked at around 90% while 80% of other graduates got hired full-time in 2006. Even though the difference between math and other graduates were very little in 2008, both lines returned to their original starting points by 2012, the last year of the study.
In terms of their salaries, both math and other graduates earned the same money of $41,000 and $43,000 in 2004 and 2006, respectively. Over the next two years, a gap of $5,000 in their wages emerged. Although the gap decreased to $4,000 in 2010, math graduates made $56,000 and other made $51,000 in 2012.