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Graduates learn pay reality
(Eastday.com)
Updated: 2004-06-18 10:01
High salary expectations are hindering Shanghai university graduates in
their search for jobs, according to a survey by Shanghai Academy of Social
Sciences.
The academy's social development research institute surveyed more than 3,000
fresh graduates from all local universities about their expectations on
first-year salary.
About 30 percent said they expected to be paid 2,000 yuan (US$241) to 3,000
yuan a month. Another 23 percent expected more than 3,000 yuan.
Twenty-eight percent said they hoped to get 1,000 yuan to 2,000 yuan a month,
the survey reported.
"Though this year's graduates have lower payment targets than those of last
year, their expectations are still too high," said Yang Xiong, the research
institute director.
Yang said many local graduates now won't accept jobs with less than 2,000
yuan salary. Students from the country's key universities tend to target about
2,500 yuan.
"But the situation differs between universities and subject majors, as well
as between local and migrant students," Yang said.
He said native graduates in some hot majors had the highest expectations.
Some mechanics majors asked for 7,000 to 8,000 yuan, the survey said. The
survey indicated that female graduates and arts majors have a harder time this
year.
Among all graduates who have signed work contracts so far, only 31 percent
are females and 27 percent are arts majors.
But demand for graduates in some sciences, such as information technology, is
40 times the supply.
"Finding an ideal job almost becomes a mission impossible now," said Chang
Junhua, a Jiangsu-native student at Shanghai Fishery University.
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