Aberdeen Factsheet

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Economy

  • Average Weekly Workplace Earnings (£) 2014 623.8 (2/63)
  • Employment Rate (%) 2014 76 (7/62)
  • GVA per Worker 2014 61,611.87 (6/62)
  • Population 2014 229,000 (41/63)
  • Private Sector Jobs 2014 146,600 (15/62)
  • Total jobs 2014 192,000 (17/62)

Graduate qualifications and wages

  • Graduate wages (£) 2014 26,895 (1/63)
  • Proportion of all Russell Group graduates with a 1st or 2.1 (%) 2014 0.3 (30/63)
  • Proportion of all UK graduates with a 1st or 2.1 (%) 2014 0.59 (25/63)
  • Working graduates with a 1st or 2.1 degree (%) 2014 52.66 (62/63)
  • Working graduates with a 1st or 2.1 from a non Russell Group university (%) 2014 46.69 (57/63)
  • Working graduates with a 1st or 2.1 from a Russell Group university (%) 2014 5.97 (56/63)
  • Working graduates with a 2.2, 3rd or unclassified degree (%) 2014 47.3 (2/63)
  • Working graduates with a 2.2, 3rd or unclassified degree from a non Russell Group university (%) 2014 44.81 (2/63)
  • Working graduates with a 2.2, 3rd or unclassified degree from a Russell Group university (%) 2014 2.49 (61/63)

Graduate retention and loss

  • Graduate gain 2014 2,250 (29/63)
  • Graduate loss (%) 2014 64.98 (45/49)
  • Graduate retention rate (%) 2014 43.08 (6/43)
  • Proportion of all UK working graduates (%) 2014 0.79 (15/63)
  • Proportion of all UK working graduates that moved for work (%) 2014 0.4 (45/63)
  • Proportion of all working graduates with a 2.2, 3rd or unclassified degree that moved for work (%) 2014 0.41 (49/63)
  • Proportion of all working Oxbridge graduates that moved for work (%) 2014 0.2 (32/63)
  • Proportion of UK working graduates with a 1st or 2.1 that moved for work (%) 2014 0.31 (52/63)
  • Working graduates who moved to the city to study (%) 2014 46.16 (1/48)
  • Working graduates who neither studied or grew up in the city (%) 2014 24.7 (55/63)
  • Working graduates who studied and grew up in the city (%) 2014 24.67 (13/48)
  • Working graduates who studied elsewhere but grew up in the city (%) 2014 4.47 (63/63)

Graduates working by occupation level

  • Working graduates in high-skilled occupations (%) 2014 80.62 (9/63)
  • Working graduates in low-skilled occupations (%) 2014 10.39 (45/63)
  • Working graduates in medium-skilled occupations (%) 2014 8.99 (58/63)

Graduates working by sector

  • Working graduates in construction, extraction, logistics or utilities sectors (%) 2014 25.39 (1/63)
  • Working graduates in the KIBS sector (%) 2014 13.22 (20/63)
  • Working graduates in the Manufacturing sector (%) 2014 1.91 (62/63)
  • Working graduates in the other private services sector (%) 2014 21.37 (53/63)
  • Working graduates in the publicly funded services sector (%) 2014 38.11 (59/63)