Table 12
Median earnings of full-time, full-year employees, university graduates, by field of study and age group, Canada, 2006
| Field of study | 25 to 29 | 30 to 34 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Distribution | Median income | Distribution | Median income | |||||||
| Women | Men | Women | Men | ratio | Women | Men | Women | Men | ratio | |
| percentage | dollars | percentage | dollars | |||||||
| Education | 9.5 | 2.3 | 41,154 | 43,174 | 0.95 | 10.7 | 3.4 | 47,561 | 52,916 | 0.90 |
| Visual and performing arts, and communications technologies | 4.6 | 4.1 | 30,530 | 33,496 | 0.91 | 3.6 | 3.7 | 39,041 | 40,482 | 0.96 |
| Humanities | 5.4 | 3.3 | 34,407 | 36,304 | 0.95 | 5.7 | 3.8 | 41,392 | 47,200 | 0.88 |
| Social and behavioural sciences and law | 15.9 | 6.9 | 38,402 | 41,448 | 0.93 | 16.8 | 8.3 | 47,303 | 56,000 | 0.84 |
| Business, management and public administration | 27.9 | 17.2 | 41,728 | 46,539 | 0.90 | 27.9 | 17.3 | 50,250 | 64,833 | 0.78 |
| Physical and life sciences and technologies | 4.2 | 3.5 | 37,677 | 36,827 | 1.02 | 4.0 | 3.8 | 46,647 | 55,182 | 0.85 |
| Mathematics, computer and information sciences | 3.7 | 11.0 | 44,745 | 47,987 | 0.93 | 4.1 | 8.9 | 53,090 | 62,227 | 0.85 |
| Architecture, engineering and related services | 4.3 | 37.0 | 47,977 | 52,175 | 0.92 | 4.3 | 36.1 | 55,027 | 65,281 | 0.84 |
| Agriculture, natural resources and conservation | 1.9 | 3.3 | 41,162 | 45,355 | 0.91 | 1.7 | 3.3 | 47,506 | 56,278 | 0.84 |
| Health, parks, recreation and fitness | 16.9 | 4.4 | 49,969 | 46,872 | 1.07 | 16.6 | 5.2 | 55,650 | 58,666 | 0.95 |
| Personal, protective and transportation services | 5.8 | 7.0 | 38,200 | 45,135 | 0.85 | 4.8 | 6.4 | 55,000 | 66,612 | 0.83 |
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Note: Full-year employees: self-employed workers are excluded from this table. University graduates include persons with a Bachelor's degree or higher. Source: Statistics Canada, Census of Population, 2006. |
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