Graduate Salary Information

Question

I had thought that this would be an easy find--my mistake. If it should have been an easy find, my apologies. I think that the information is likely in ESIS (Enhanced Student Information System), but this doesn't appear to be part of the DLI collection. Is there any way to get the following information short of paying for a custom tab?

I would like to know the average salary after 2 years (or 3 or 4 or 5 years) for people graduating with a BA in communication in Canada. Several years ago, a sessional we had hired in Mass Communication had extracted that information from Statistics Canada.

His information compared the salaries of people who had a BA in communication with those who had a community college degree with those who had a BA and then went to college. In all cases, the straight BA came out significantly ahead (especially when compounded over 10 or 20 years). He had the statistics after 2 years, after 5 and after 10.

Answer

ESIS would not be the best source for this information as it tends to be administrative data from the universities themselves. However, I am not sure if you looked at the National Graduate Survey (NGS) or the follow-up surveys?

If the information can not be found in the PUMF, a custom extraction can be done - but starting at $1000 and taking weeks to complete.

1995 is the most recent NGS data we have in the DLI collection. The production of NGS 2000 is still on hold (but I heard they are actually working towards it, but it is at the bottom of a long list of priorities. We will see some basic tables and analysis at some point, the release of custom tables which will be provided free of charge to the DLI, and then the PUMF). No date provided.

The best I can offer is that there is a Master file for 2000 and the user can order custom tabulations at a fee. There is no data yet
available for 2005.