{"id":71238,"date":"2015-01-13T00:02:17","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T17:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/aldi-offers-graduates-a-42000-starting-salary-is-it-enough-to-pay-off-your-student-loan\/"},"modified":"2017-11-08T08:03:11","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T01:03:11","slug":"aldi-offers-graduates-a-42000-starting-salary-is-it-enough-to-pay-off-your-student-loan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/aldi-offers-graduates-a-42000-starting-salary-is-it-enough-to-pay-off-your-student-loan\/","title":{"rendered":"Aldi offers graduates a \u00a342,000 starting salary \u2013 is it enough to pay off your student loan?"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nStarting salaries for graduates are increasing. But given accumulated student fees and loans, how do the numbers stack up for university-leavers?Things are looking up for students. A report from High Fliers, a graduate research company, has found that the number of graduate jobs being offered by the top 100 UK employers rose by 7.9% last year, and is expected to rise by about the same amount in 2015.The amount graduates get paid is rising, too \u2013 for the first time in five years. Among those top 100 employers, the median starting salary has now reached \u00a330,000pa. (Among employers generally, it is somewhere in the mid-to-high \u00a320,000s.) There were even tales of investment banks offering graduates up to \u00a350,000, and humble Aldi paying \u00a342,000 \u2013 a nice wage packet for anybody, let alone a 21-year-old working at a budget supermarket. So, given the recent changes to student fees and loans, what will life for today\u2019s graduates be like? Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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