Higher starting salaries for local fresh graduates in 2015: Survey

According to results from the latest Joint Graduate Employment Survey released on Wednesday (Mar 2), the median gross monthly salary among fresh graduates from SMU, NUS and NTU was S$3,300 in 2015, compared to S$3,200 in 2014. Besides a higher starting salary, more graduates are also finding employment within six months of the completion of their final examinations. In 2015, 89.5 per cent of the respondents who were in the labour force found employment within six months, compared to 89.1 per cent in 2014, according to the survey.