Two pie charts show a comparison of the proportion of people with different degrees and professions who worked in an engineering company in 1980 and 2008

The pie charts above compare the proportion of people who worked in an engineering company from the perspective of professional areas and educational levels, in 1980 and 2008.

Overall

, in 1980, the majority of classes were

Master

Science

and first

degree

in Arts,

whereas

in 2008, the main groups were PhD

Science

and

Master

Science

. In both pie graphs,

Science

appeared as the major profession,

although

Arts got less than 40%. Within Sciences, from one year to another, the

Master

's kept the same percentage (29%),

while

PhD depicts a growth from 13% to 30%, and the first

degree

reduced from 19% to 10%. Concerning Arts, the first

degree

fell from 25% to 11%, the

Master

got a small augmentation from 12% to 13%, and PhD increased from 2% to 7%. In general, it is possible to see that the workers from

this

company that had

master

’s

degree

or higher level enhanced from 56% to 79% and most of these employees were from

science

area.