The line graph illustrates the percentage of full-time workers holding a university degree comparing all graduates with mathematics, while the table depicts average salaries of students in Australia from 2004 to 2012 .
Overall, the percentage of students who had full-time work saw minimal changes throughout the whole period. However, the ordinary earnings of undergraduates had an increase.
At the beginning, 80% of all graduates had full-time jobs, compared with around 65% of mathematics students. While the latter figure rose sharply, peaking at about 88%, the former increased until 2006. By 2008 both percentages were similar, at around 85%. By 2012, rate for maths students returned to initial level, while the proportion of all graduates fell to 78%
From 2004 to 2006, there was an upward trend in average salaries, starting with $41.000 to $43.500 for every student. While the salary of mathematics students rose dramatically to $51.000, the proportion for all students increased to $48.000. In 2010, there was a reversal pattern ith the salary of each category reaching levels almost similar to those previous figures of other students. After, there was an increase for all graduates by $10.500 and $1000 for mathematics students.