Reading Factsheet

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Economy

  • Average Weekly Workplace Earnings (£) 2014 589.2 (7/63)
  • Employment Rate (%) 2014 75.7 (9/62)
  • GVA per Worker 2014 70,891.77 (2/62)
  • Population 2014 319,900 (30/63)
  • Private Sector Jobs 2014 134,900 (17/62)
  • Total jobs 2014 173,100 (21/62)

Graduate qualifications and wages

  • Graduate wages (£) 2014 23,710 (11/63)
  • Proportion of all Russell Group graduates with a 1st or 2.1 (%) 2014 0.77 (18/63)
  • Proportion of all UK graduates with a 1st or 2.1 (%) 2014 0.74 (15/63)
  • Working graduates with a 1st or 2.1 degree (%) 2014 76.34 (4/63)
  • Working graduates with a 1st or 2.1 from a non Russell Group university (%) 2014 58.78 (21/63)
  • Working graduates with a 1st or 2.1 from a Russell Group university (%) 2014 17.56 (13/63)
  • Working graduates with a 2.2, 3rd or unclassified degree (%) 2014 23.66 (60/63)
  • Working graduates with a 2.2, 3rd or unclassified degree from a non Russell Group university (%) 2014 18.13 (58/63)
  • Working graduates with a 2.2, 3rd or unclassified degree from a Russell Group university (%) 2014 5.53 (43/63)

Graduate retention and loss

  • Graduate gain 2014 390 (49/63)
  • Graduate loss (%) 2014 88.31 (10/49)
  • Graduate retention rate (%) 2014 16.91 (39/43)
  • Proportion of all UK working graduates (%) 2014 0.64 (22/63)
  • Proportion of all UK working graduates that moved for work (%) 2014 0.9 (12/63)
  • Proportion of all working graduates with a 2.2, 3rd or unclassified degree that moved for work (%) 2014 0.83 (15/63)
  • Proportion of all working Oxbridge graduates that moved for work (%) 2014 0.8 (8/63)
  • Proportion of UK working graduates with a 1st or 2.1 that moved for work (%) 2014 1.01 (11/63)
  • Working graduates who moved to the city to study (%) 2014 11.62 (39/48)
  • Working graduates who neither studied or grew up in the city (%) 2014 55.18 (15/63)
  • Working graduates who studied and grew up in the city (%) 2014 7.18 (41/48)
  • Working graduates who studied elsewhere but grew up in the city (%) 2014 26.02 (28/63)

Graduates working by occupation level

  • Working graduates in high-skilled occupations (%) 2014 81.57 (6/63)
  • Working graduates in low-skilled occupations (%) 2014 8.07 (59/63)
  • Working graduates in medium-skilled occupations (%) 2014 10.36 (44/63)

Graduates working by sector

  • Working graduates in construction, extraction, logistics or utilities sectors (%) 2014 6.93 (5/63)
  • Working graduates in the KIBS sector (%) 2014 23.91 (3/63)
  • Working graduates in the Manufacturing sector (%) 2014 3.73 (36/63)
  • Working graduates in the other private services sector (%) 2014 24.43 (37/63)
  • Working graduates in the publicly funded services sector (%) 2014 41 (56/63)