Manchester Factsheet

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Economy

  • Average Weekly Workplace Earnings (£) 2014 476.2 (30/63)
  • Employment Rate (%) 2014 68.1 (47/62)
  • GVA per Worker 2014 47,121.68 (34/62)
  • Population 2014 2,411,900 (3/63)
  • Private Sector Jobs 2014 821,300 (2/62)
  • Total jobs 2014 1,121,400 (2/62)

Graduate qualifications and wages

  • Graduate wages (£) 2014 20,875 (59/63)
  • Proportion of all Russell Group graduates with a 1st or 2.1 (%) 2014 4.98 (2/63)
  • Proportion of all UK graduates with a 1st or 2.1 (%) 2014 4.68 (2/63)
  • Working graduates with a 1st or 2.1 degree (%) 2014 69.61 (31/63)
  • Working graduates with a 1st or 2.1 from a non Russell Group university (%) 2014 53.22 (47/63)
  • Working graduates with a 1st or 2.1 from a Russell Group university (%) 2014 16.39 (15/63)
  • Working graduates with a 2.2, 3rd or unclassified degree (%) 2014 30.37 (33/63)
  • Working graduates with a 2.2, 3rd or unclassified degree from a non Russell Group university (%) 2014 23.48 (35/63)
  • Working graduates with a 2.2, 3rd or unclassified degree from a Russell Group university (%) 2014 6.9 (27/63)

Graduate retention and loss

  • Graduate gain 2014 4,665 (21/63)
  • Graduate loss (%) 2014 67.48 (42/49)
  • Graduate retention rate (%) 2014 51.49 (2/43)
  • Proportion of all UK working graduates (%) 2014 4.54 (2/63)
  • Proportion of all UK working graduates that moved for work (%) 2014 3.82 (2/63)
  • Proportion of all working graduates with a 2.2, 3rd or unclassified degree that moved for work (%) 2014 4.14 (2/63)
  • Proportion of all working Oxbridge graduates that moved for work (%) 2014 1.42 (4/63)
  • Proportion of UK working graduates with a 1st or 2.1 that moved for work (%) 2014 3.79 (2/63)
  • Working graduates who moved to the city to study (%) 2014 20.43 (30/48)
  • Working graduates who neither studied or grew up in the city (%) 2014 23.73 (56/63)
  • Working graduates who studied and grew up in the city (%) 2014 31.06 (7/48)
  • Working graduates who studied elsewhere but grew up in the city (%) 2014 24.78 (29/63)

Graduates working by occupation level

  • Working graduates in high-skilled occupations (%) 2014 75.82 (45/63)
  • Working graduates in low-skilled occupations (%) 2014 13.33 (12/63)
  • Working graduates in medium-skilled occupations (%) 2014 10.85 (33/63)

Graduates working by sector

  • Working graduates in construction, extraction, logistics or utilities sectors (%) 2014 4.31 (24/63)
  • Working graduates in the KIBS sector (%) 2014 16.09 (12/63)
  • Working graduates in the Manufacturing sector (%) 2014 2.67 (50/63)
  • Working graduates in the other private services sector (%) 2014 30.22 (9/63)
  • Working graduates in the publicly funded services sector (%) 2014 46.7 (47/63)