Salary Outlook Good for New Grads

Following up on last week’s post on Gen Y’s upper hand in the job search, we found some interesting numbers on annual salaries for new grads. The National Association of Colleges and Employers recently released their Summer 2007 Salary Survey. The survey found that recent grads salaries are seeing a jump compared to previous years. As our friend Steven Rothberg of CollegeRecruiter.com pointed out in his recent post, hiring for the class of 2007 is up nearly 20%.

Here are a few of the numbers that might appeal to you techies:

-Computer Science grads had an average salary of $53,396. This is an increase of 4.1%.

-Information Systems graduates’ salaries rose 4.6% to an average of $50,852 annually.

-Computer Engineers had an annual salary of $56,201, an annual increase of 4.8%.

This is something all you recent grads should check out. And for all of you high-level professionals, stay tuned for next week’s post on the announcement of Yoh’s Q2 Index of Technology Wages.

Posted by Christy H.