The line graph illustrates the proportion of math graduates and all graduates who secured full-time employment after graduating from a university in Australia and gives information about the salary of math graduates and all graduates between 2004 and 2012.
Overall, it is evident that the percentage of full-time workers for both graduates remained constant over the period. While the average salary of both Graduates experienced an upward trend and peaked in 2012.
Further examination reveals that the proportion of full-time workers among math graduates at a university stood at 80% in 2004, which was 15% higher than that of all graduates. This figure, subsequently peaking at 90% in 2006, steadily decreased in 2012. Similarly, the percentage of full-time workers among all graduates increased slightly from 80% in 2006 to around 90% in 2008 and dropped significantly to 65% in 2012.
With respect to graduates’ salaries, in 2004 and 2006 both graduates’ salaries were $41,000 and $43000 respectively. In the following year, the salary of math graduates was $50,000, which exceeded that of all graduates by $5,000 in 2008. Subsequently, both groups experienced gradual growth to $60000 and $51000 respectively in 2012 in the salary of graduates.