The graphs below show the percentage of graduates that got full-time jobs after graduating from a university in Australia, and the average salary of both these types of graduates, from 2004 to 2012. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The line graph gives information about the proportion of full-time employees who graduated from Math and Other

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in Australia every two years from 2004 to 2012,

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the table illustrates their average salaries throughout the same period of time.

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, a similar downward trend was witnessed in both types of

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having full-time jobs after graduating,

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the salary they earned on average saw a gradual

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. Remarkably, Maths

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were higher than the others, except for the year 2006 and surpassed other

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’ average salary from 2008. Regarding the tertiary degree holders having full-time jobs, 80% of maths

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were offered in 2004,

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only 65% of others. Afterwards,

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figure from other degrees saw a sharp

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to roughly 90%, surpassing that of maths’ in 2006, before intersecting in 2008, at around 85%. From

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, both shared a similar trend of decreasing, with approximately a 10% decrease for the former and nearly doubled for the latter. Moving on to the average salary, a similar

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of $2,000 was seen in both graduate employees from 2004 to 2006. The remaining years’ salaries kept rising, albeit to a varied extent. The figure for other degree workers was to a more stable extent of $2,000 to $3,000

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every two years compared to that of maths’. In 2012, salaries offered for maths and other degrees were $56,000 and $51,000, respectively.