Anthropology students after graduation

The pie chart details the initial occupations of Anthropology students after graduation and the table records their salaries following 5 years of work in various sectors. Overall, most graduates took full-time positions, followed by part-time jobs, unemployment, graduate study or unknown, and finally part-time work together with graduate study. The average salaries tended to be much higher for freelance consultants than those working in the government and private companies, though there were many federal workers in the highest salary bracket. A total of 52% of graduates were employed full-time, compared to 15% for part-time, 12% unemployed, 8% categorised as unknown, 8% pursuing full-time further education, and finally 5% combining part-time work and higher education study. Turning to the table, freelance consultants were overwhelmingly employed in the upper pay scales at 40% in both $75, 000 – $99, 999 and $100, 000+, with just 20% making between $25, 000 and $74, 999. Government employees displayed a broadly similar pattern with identical figures at the two lowest pay bands, 30% in the $75, 000 to $99, 999 range, and 50% earning over a hundred thousand dollars a year. Private industry salaries diverged generally with 10% in the lowest income range, a striking 35% earning $50, 000 to $74, 999, while 25% and 30% of graduates made $75, 000 – $99, 999 and $100, 000+, respectively.