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Graduate recruitment: what should you pay the class of 2017?

by Michael Carty 22 May 2017
by Michael Carty 22 May 2017 Enter XpertHR's survey to see how your organisation compares on graduate pay
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Enter XpertHR's survey to see how your organisation compares on graduate pay
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What starting salary is your organisation offering to graduate recruits in 2017? As the class of 2017 joins the labour market, XpertHR is conducting a short benchmarking survey on the state of graduate recruitment and graduate starting salaries.

Take part in this XpertHR Benchmarking research to receive the latest data on how your organisation compares.

Completing this confidential survey will entitle you to:

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  • a complimentary copy of the data report, as soon as it is available; and
  • a free copy of the XpertHR young workers survey report, emailed to you on completion of the survey.

In addition, all respondents whose data can be used in XpertHR survey analyses will be entered into a draw for the chance to win one of four £250 prizes.

The closing date for the prize draw is 30 June 2017, with the draw set to take place in week commencing 17 July 2017. Please note that the prize is 4 x £250 and the winners will be notified by email during the week of 17 July 2017.

Graduates – big data

£23,000
The median graduate starting salary was £23,000 in 2016, according to XpertHR research.
Source: 2016 XpertHR graduate recruitment and starting salaries survey

XpertHR’s 2016 research into graduate recruitment and starting salaries found that:

  • The median graduate starting salary was £23,000 for 2016/2017.
  • The median increase in graduate starting salary levels from a year earlier was nil.
  • More than four-fifths of employers were recruiting graduates in 2016/2017, with engineering specialists the most sought after.
  • The most commonly used method for finding graduate candidates was the organisation’s own corporate website, while manual sifting against predetermined criteria was the most common selection method.
  • Half of employers say poor quality of graduate applicants was the main problem they have experienced with graduate recruitment.

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Michael Carty

I'm the editor of XpertHR benchmarking. I'm interested in all aspects of HR data - how it's collated, how it's utilised and interpreted and the stories it tells. I'm also interested in the latest information and data on all aspects of the work of HR and related disciplines (whether to do with employment or economics) around the world – and how social media enable HR information and debate to spread and evolve across geographic boundaries. I’ve been part of the XpertHR team since 20 August 2001, working on the site in a wide variety of editorial roles as it expanded from its unnamed, pre-launch incarnation to the HR information powerhouse it is today. Further back, I worked as a writer at Incomes Data Services (IDS), and before that did time in research and writing roles at a banking consultancy in the City of London and at the Open University Business School.

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