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Grad Salaries

  • 07-07-2004 9:01am
    #1
    defrag
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12 ✭


    Anyone know what the salary for IT graduates are like this year? In particular, anyone know what Accenture are paying their grads this year, I can't find anything on their site but I remember they used to have the starting salary printed in their brochures.

    Thks.


Comments

  • #2
    leeroybrown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,563 ✭✭✭leeroybrown


    I think it used to be €28,500 two years ago (sept 02) for their milkround. I don't think it went up much last year (maybe €500 or so) and I'd expect a nominal increase this year.

    Accenture are at the high-end of the starting salaries in case anyone thinks al gradl jobs are suddenly well paid. ;)


  • #3
    grumpytrousers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,884 ✭✭✭grumpytrousers


    Accenture are at the high-end of the starting salaries in case anyone thinks al gradl jobs are suddenly well paid.

    Also spawn of the devil, I think you'll find....


  • #4
    defrag
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12 ✭defrag


    Originally posted by leeroybrown
    I think it used to be €28,500 two years ago (sept 02) for their milkround. I don't think it went up much last year (maybe €500 or so) and I'd expect a nominal increase this year.

    Accenture are at the high-end of the starting salaries in case anyone thinks al gradl jobs are suddenly well paid. ;)

    Must have taken a dip last year (Sept-Nov 03) cos I went to their presentation and interviewed with them a few times and the figure quoted then was €27,000 sans bonus.

    The advertised salary on their UK site is £28,500 (almost €43,000 - http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/m5?a=28500&s=GBP&t=EUR) - http://tinyurl.com/2tqdp but their Irish part of the site doesn't give a figure. Haven't found it on any college careers site yet either.


  • #5
    defrag
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12 ✭defrag


    Originally posted by grumpytrousers
    Also spawn of the devil, I think you'll find....

    I'm not going to argue with you there :cool:


  • #6
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,158 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    Accenture are at the high-end of the starting salaries in case anyone thinks al gradl jobs are suddenly well paid.

    That is so not true for people working in finance

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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  • #7
    amen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,781 ✭✭✭amen


    Ahh yes Accenture the company that hires only 2.1 or above even if they know nothing....

    are they really offering 27,000 as starting ?
    most other companies are offering around 20,000


  • #8
    Repli
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,322 ✭✭✭Repli


    Anyone have a ballpark figure for a grad with 12-15 months development experience?


  • #9
    BUMP!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 82 ✭✭BUMP!


    Due to the economic slowdown, wage expectations for an eng are extremely poor at the minute - a fresh grad can generally look forward to about 22 - 24g's at the minute. With 18 months experience you would prob get around 27-30g's.

    If you wanted decent money, you should have become an electrician, plumber, builder....


  • #10
    Repli
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,322 ✭✭✭Repli


    I disagree. If you are good at something I believe you will be paid well for doing it regardless of the industry. If you dont believe me look at the salary scales for database managers, systems analysts, GIS designers, etc


  • #11
    grumpytrousers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,884 ✭✭✭grumpytrousers


    I disagree. If you are good at something I believe you will be paid well for doing it regardless of the industry.

    Not necessarily the case if you're straight outta college.

    In a case where there's a slight downturn in the economy, with a poor job market, employers know that people with 2-3 years experience who are job hunting for a reason and, where jobs are thin on the ground, may well settle for slightly less than they should get.

    In such cases, these people who are 'house-trained' are still much better value than any graduate with sod all experience - no matter how good their last project/website/de-lorean-time-machine...

    the fact that the graudate might be more idealistic, honest, and less prone to pissing about for hours on internet boards sites is irrellevant


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