The upper table gives information about the average income of graduates and non-graduates in the United Kingdom for the year 2010, while the table directly below it shows the data about average salaries of both graduates and non-graduates of different age-groups for the same period. The unit is in pounds.
Generally speaking, graduates had higher average income than non graduates regardless of the age. Graduates,52 years old, had the highest amount of salaries in 2010, whereas for non-graduates the citizens having aging 32 years earned the most.
Specific details reveal that on an average graduates earn 15,000 pounds more than the people who didn’t attend university. Next, coming to the age-group 22-32, the average earnings of the people who completed their university was 24,000 pounds that is 9,700 pounds more than the citizens who skipped university belonging to the same age-group. Similarly, the subsequent age-group follows the same pattern of graduates earning 13,100 pounds more than non-graduates.
The difference in salaries of graduates and non-graduates increases with the increase in age.The people having a degree and aging 42 years and 52 years earned 33,500 pounds and 34,380 pounds respectively.In contrast, the non-graduate who were of similar age had an average salary of 19,100 pounds.