The first table illustrates how much people average earn in various sectors, including finance, public service, transportation, manufacturing, agriculture, and ‘wholesale and retail trade’, in 2004 and the change from 2003, while the second pie chart depicts the distribution of graduates in these sectors.
Overall, it is obvious that the first table witnessed upward trends in the average salary of all sectors compared to 2003. Meanwhile, in the second pie chart, the proportion of public services was the highest, and that of finance was the lowest.
In the first table, the average salary of wholesale and retail trade increased significantly by 8.4% up to 77k dollars per year in 2004. The percentage of change compared to 2003 in the average salary of finance and agriculture was nearly equal, but the average salary of finance was 83k dollars, which doubled that of agriculture, at 40k in the same year. Compared to the 4% change of manufacturing, that of public service was 3.7%, and the average salary was 52k and 92k dollars per year, respectively. In 2004, the average salary of transportation grew remarkably by 4.5% to 81k dollars.
On the second pie chart, it is evident that the percentage of public services, agriculture, and manufacturing were higher than others, at least 20%. Compared to 30% of people studying public services graduates, that of manufacturing was 20%. Occupying a quarter of the pie chart was the percentage of agriculture. The proportion of transportation was 10%, which was equal to that of wholesale and retail trade. Finally, the percentage of finance was 5%.