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Fri 08 Aug 2008Postgraduates may need to revise salary expectations
IF YOU are a new graduate planning to do a postgraduate course in order to secure a higher starting salary in your first job, you might want to think again.
A survey on the salary expectations of 10,000 students conducted recently by gradireland.com, the website of Graduate Careers Ireland, showed that students considering postgraduate study expected the qualification to make a real difference to their immediate earning power. A third of respondents believe they would earn more than €5,000 above the standard graduate salary when they started work. Based on the average graduate starting salary of about €27,000, this represents a premium of nearly 20 per cent.
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