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With these suggestions, you can earn a high salary after graduation
After graduation, black students are willing to just accept not less than $70,000 from their first job. Black college graduates should earn more.
This amount is about 4% lower than the $72,580 that other respondents would have received, based on recent research on student salary expectations. The data showed that Black students expect to take home $80,000 after a yr of faculty, about 6% lower than all students’ $84,855. The $70,000 figure for black students is 25% higher than the common starting salary of $55,911 for recent graduates.
Jaime Seale, writer of the report, said black students are inclined to be more realistic about their salary expectations than other students. However, black employees are inclined to earn lower than white employees and don’t fare as well salary negotiationsso black students may already be tempering their expectations.
By including salary ranges in job postings, employers can educate all students about realistic salary expectations, he says. He says it might profit black students and other people of color.
“Rather than job applicants having to determine whether their pay is fair and equal to that of workers in the same position, that responsibility is transferred to the employer.”
The data also shows that 36% of scholars claim that the common salary at first of their studies is lower than expected, and (34%) don’t imagine that they are going to find a way to afford basic expenses after graduation.
About 97% of scholars would consider lowering their salary expectations, but they’d not work for lower than $72,580 of their first job, on average. About 70% of scholars say they deserve greater than the common starting salary because they work harder than their peers.