No topic is as exciting when looking for a job as salary - and yet a well-kept secret. This has now been decrypted in a study - including an interview with publisher Simone Janson.
Career entry, career and salary by state and industry
Especially for young professionals and young executives, the question is interesting: How much do others earn in the same occupations and industries? The content comparison portal salary.de has analyzed 49.646 salary data of academic employees with up to six years of professional experience from the last 12 months and to Best of HR – Berufebilder.de®Founder and publisher Simone Janson interviewed.
It was also discussed which professions are chosen most frequently after graduation, how to get up to management positions and which federal state has the most money. The result in brief: Academics earn the most after graduating in Baden-Württemberg (48.000 euros). In an industry comparison, the automotive industry (51.900 euros) does the best. The change in management positions usually takes place at the age of 30.
Top industry for young professionals: the automotive industry
Baden-Wuerttemberg is the most lucrative federal state for academic entrants with a starting salary of around 48.000 Euro every year. Bavaria (46.500 Euro) and Hesse (45.400 Euro) also have a relatively high salary level. In the new federal states of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Saxony-Anhalt and Saxony, however, graduates receive significantly lower salaries. There they are each under 40.000 Euro.
The highest starting salary is paid to academics in the automotive industry. Here they earn around 51.900 Euro at the start of their career. The mechanical and shipbuilding industry (49.500 Euro) as well as the software industry (49.400 Euro) are lucrative sectors to enter the world of work.
Academics work most often in these professions
Social and social scientists deserve 35.700 Euro at the beginning of their career. They are most often used in social work and education and receive 34.300 Euro annually. Mathematicians and computer scientists earn 47.300 Euro in their first three years of employment.
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Employees in this field increasingly start their careers as developers or IT consultants and receive an annual income from 46.200 or 50.000 Euro. A degree in technical-mathematical fields obviously provides optimal conditions for the salary negotiation.
Economists earn around 41.800 Euro
After graduation, engineers receive a salary of around 47.800 Euro and work predominantly in project management and construction. Here they earn a gross annual income of 47.000Euro. After studying economics, graduates receive 41.800 Euro at the beginning of their studies.
Most often they work as controllers or business consultants. Professionals in all subjects are increasingly in the 30. Age to executives. With three to six years of professional experience, they earn a gross salary of around 77.700 euros per year. Around 29 percent of executives drive a company car and receive an annual premium of approximately 8.000 Euro.
All results at a glance
Starting salaries (maximum of three years' professional experience) for academics
| Starting salary academics in general | Median | Average |
| Bachelor | 42.585€ | 45.778€ |
| Master | 46.314€ | 48.416€ |
By region
| Academics by federal states | Median | Average |
| Baden-Württemberg | 47.957€ | 49.812€ |
| Bavaria | 46.500€ | 49.578€ |
| Hesse | 45.406€ | 48.375€ |
| Nordrhein-Westfalen | 43.409€ | 46.222€ |
| Lower Saxony | 43.258€ | 45.430€ |
| Hamburg | 43.007€ | 46.016€ |
| Rhineland Palatinate | 42.701€ | 45.495€ |
| Bremen | 41.989€ | 44.356€ |
| Schleswig-Holstein | 41.443€ | 43.991€ |
| Saarland | 41.168€ | 44.111€ |
| Berlin | 39.768€ | 41.915€ |
| Thuringia | 38.043€ | 39.276€ |
| Brandenburg | 37.994€ | 39.557€ |
| Saxony | 37.018€ | 39.123€ |
| Sachsen-Anhalt | 36.627€ | 39.820€ |
| Mecklenburg-Vorpommern | 35.367€ | 38.006€ |
By industry
| Top industries Academics overall | Median | Average |
| Automotive industry | 51.876€ | 55.070€ |
| Mechanical engineering and shipbuilding | 49.462€ | 52.010€ |
| Software | 49.364€ | 53.526€ |
| E-Technology | 49.180€ | 52.454€ |
| Banks and financial services | 49.011€ | 51.895€ |
Starting salaries by subjects
| Social and social sciences | Median | Average |
| General | 35.680€ | 37.647€ |
| Professional favorites | ||
| Social worker / social worker or social worker | 34.339€ | 35.739€ |
| Editor / -in | 32.689€ | 35.194€ |
| Online Marketing Management | 33.903€ | 35.727€ |
| Industry Favorites | ||
| Social facilities | 34.186€ | 36.292€ |
| Advertising and PR | 34.145€ | 34.277€ |
| Media and press | 33.959€ | 35.957€ |
| Mathematics and Computer Science | Median | Average |
| General | 47.250€ | 49.195€ |
| Professional favorites | ||
| Software Developer Backend | 46.160€ | 47.880€ |
| Software Developer Frontend | 42.419€ | 43.821€ |
| Employees in IT consulting, analysis and conception | 49.996€ | 52.854€ |
| Industry Favorites | ||
| Software | 45.127€ | 46.711€ |
| IT system houses | 45.807€ | 47.894€ |
| Automotive industry | 50.685€ | 54.146€ |
| Economics | Median | Average |
| General | 41.773€ | 44.120€ |
| Professional favorites | ||
| Controller / -in | 44.944€ | 47.546€ |
| Business Consultant / -in | 50.660€ | 53.352€ |
| Online Marketing Manager / -in | 39.957€ | 42.045€ |
| Industry Favorites | ||
| Advertising and PR | 35.416€ | 35.953€ |
| Tax advice and auditing | 39.973€ | 41.435€ |
| Automotive industry | 48.130€ | 49.989€ |
| engineering | Median | Average |
| General | 47.786€ | 50.031€ |
| Professional favorites | ||
| Engineer in project management | 46.838€ | 49.371€ |
| Engineer in construction | 47.415€ | 49.325€ |
| Employed in technical research and development | 52.465€ | 54.693€ |
| Industry Favorites | ||
| Automotive industry | 52.288€ | 54.922€ |
| engineering office | 42.393€ | 43.849€ |
| Engineering | 48.722€ | 50.848€ |
Salaries of executives by subject
| Executives 3-6 years of work experience | Q1 | Median | Average |
| General | 67.203€ | 77.693€ | 80.932€ |
| subject | |||
| Mathematics and Computer Science | 65.144€ | 75.673€ | 82.087€ |
| Economics | 63.191€ | 71.787€ | 78.960€ |
| Social and social sciences | 41.752€ | 61.672€ | 64.356€ |
| engineering | 70.177€ | 75.071€ | 81.064€ |
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