Birmingham Factsheet

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Economy

  • Average Weekly Workplace Earnings (£) 2014 461.4 (34/63)
  • Employment Rate (%) 2014 65 (56/62)
  • GVA per Worker 2014 45,729.8 (40/62)
  • Population 2014 2,470,900 (2/63)
  • Private Sector Jobs 2014 749,500 (3/62)
  • Total jobs 2014 1,056,900 (3/62)

Graduate qualifications and wages

  • Graduate wages (£) 2014 21,750 (41/63)
  • Proportion of all Russell Group graduates with a 1st or 2.1 (%) 2014 3.23 (3/63)
  • Proportion of all UK graduates with a 1st or 2.1 (%) 2014 3.77 (3/63)
  • Working graduates with a 1st or 2.1 degree (%) 2014 67.77 (37/63)
  • Working graduates with a 1st or 2.1 from a non Russell Group university (%) 2014 54.89 (42/63)
  • Working graduates with a 1st or 2.1 from a Russell Group university (%) 2014 12.88 (24/63)
  • Working graduates with a 2.2, 3rd or unclassified degree (%) 2014 32.23 (27/63)
  • Working graduates with a 2.2, 3rd or unclassified degree from a non Russell Group university (%) 2014 26.01 (24/63)
  • Working graduates with a 2.2, 3rd or unclassified degree from a Russell Group university (%) 2014 6.23 (37/63)

Graduate retention and loss

  • Graduate gain 2014 1,095 (36/63)
  • Graduate loss (%) 2014 76.14 (40/49)
  • Graduate retention rate (%) 2014 49.42 (4/43)
  • Proportion of all UK working graduates (%) 2014 3.99 (3/63)
  • Proportion of all UK working graduates that moved for work (%) 2014 2.9 (3/63)
  • Proportion of all working graduates with a 2.2, 3rd or unclassified degree that moved for work (%) 2014 3.25 (3/63)
  • Proportion of all working Oxbridge graduates that moved for work (%) 2014 1.57 (2/63)
  • Proportion of UK working graduates with a 1st or 2.1 that moved for work (%) 2014 2.84 (3/63)
  • Working graduates who moved to the city to study (%) 2014 15.9 (36/48)
  • Working graduates who neither studied or grew up in the city (%) 2014 18.91 (62/63)
  • Working graduates who studied and grew up in the city (%) 2014 42.19 (2/48)
  • Working graduates who studied elsewhere but grew up in the city (%) 2014 23 (31/63)

Graduates working by occupation level

  • Working graduates in high-skilled occupations (%) 2014 76.13 (42/63)
  • Working graduates in low-skilled occupations (%) 2014 11.96 (30/63)
  • Working graduates in medium-skilled occupations (%) 2014 11.91 (15/63)

Graduates working by sector

  • Working graduates in construction, extraction, logistics or utilities sectors (%) 2014 4.24 (27/63)
  • Working graduates in the KIBS sector (%) 2014 11.5 (27/63)
  • Working graduates in the Manufacturing sector (%) 2014 4.04 (33/63)
  • Working graduates in the other private services sector (%) 2014 25.28 (32/63)
  • Working graduates in the publicly funded services sector (%) 2014 54.94 (34/63)