The education reform has no effects to the salary


The switch to bachelor and master degree courses has no effect to the starting salary of graduates. That’s the result of the current Kienbaum survey. Before the education reform startet experts apprehended that bachelors and masters are less competitive on the employment market than diploma specialists. These prognoses did not come true: Bachelors and masters do not earn less then their colleagues with diplomas. Critical for the highness of the salary is not the sort of degree but the final grade, first vocational experiences and stays in foreign countries. Graduates with a MBA degree are in special demand. Masters earn averagely 3000 Euro per year more than bachelors. The average annual income of specialists with a bachelor degree amounts to 39 000 Euro. Especially in trade, building and manufacture industries bachelors are in great demand. The survey shows as well that the difference between the salaries of university and college graduates keeps getting smaller. Engineers with a college diploma earn about 41 000 Euro per year, engineers with a university diploma earn only 2000 Euro per year more. Four years ago the difference was 3000 Euro. Here’s the survey’s surprise: The tendency that the chemistry industry prefers college graduates more than university graduates is rising.