Agree with this. Another food for thought also, but depending on industry to industry. Since alot of fresh grads are moving to the hot industries like banking/IT/Tech/Consultancies, there is lack of talents in other places. And some of them starts off with an average or below average salary (approx. $3k) which turns off people like some entitled graduating students in this thread. But if you see long term, when one industry could potentially reach saturation point of too many fresh grad talents as the starting pay is good (survival of the fittest to see who gets promoted in the long run, and even harder to get managerial roles unless you are better than the rest) while other industries have lost too many and are trying to retain talents, you can analyse to see which ones will have the faster promotion and over a 10 year period, can compare who has a better progression and/or a more stable work life balance for the pay you are getting.