A UNIVERSITY degree is increasing in value with the average graduate salary worth $66,000 after four years in the workforce - a pay rise of 40 per cent from their first job in 2008.
    2008年獲得第一份工作的畢業(yè)生在工作四年后普遍加薪40%，平均起薪為66000澳幣，體現(xiàn)出大學學位有大幅增值。
    Each of 10 broad industry groups saw salary increases of at least 30 percent.
    10大產(chǎn)業(yè)集團均證實工資有至少30%的增長。
    Postgraduates performed even better, with a jump in average salary from $65,800 in 2008 to $85,000 last year.
    研究生情況尤為突出，起跳平均工資從2008年的65800澳幣到去年的85000澳幣。
    Graduate Careers Australia surveyed nearly 12,000 students who had finished university in 2007. Beyond Graduation 2011 tracked salaries, employability, relevance of discipline studied to current job, hours worked, and prevalence of postgraduate study of students from 34 Australian universities.
    Phil Lewis, director of the Centre for Labour Market Research at the University of Canberra, said structural change in the economy over the past three decades had greatly favoured people with a degree.
    在過去的三年里，經(jīng)濟結(jié)構(gòu)的變化大大有利于擁有學位的人士。
    "While there has been a huge increase in the number of graduates since 1989, the rate of return to a degree has also increased. Add to that 17 years of consecutive economic growth with a blip in 2008. There is plenty of demand for graduates," Professor Lewis said.
    Graduates in engineering and related technologies were the best paid last year, earning an average of $76,000, followed by IT ($75,000) and management and commerce ($70,000).
    去年起薪最高的是工程及相關(guān)技術(shù)的畢業(yè)生，收入平均為76000澳幣，其次是IT（75000澳幣）、管理和商業(yè)（70000澳幣）。