MANILA, Philippines — A survey conducted by online hiring platform Job Street ranked the industries with the highest average starting salary for fresh graduates. Law and legal services, health-care related, and journalism jobs ranked the highest paid jobs for fresh graduates, overtaking the IT sector which has always topped the list. Job Street said fresh hires in law and legal services get an average P27,124 per month; health-care related, P23,216; and journalist (include brand writers, translators and online content writers), P21,711. “We wanted to benchmark or influence what is the salary that they should be giving to be able to attract the talents,” said Job Street country manager Philip Gioca Gioca. Similar to previous years, the BPO still has the most available positions for fresh graduates (66 percent), followed by retail (two percent) and real estate (1.5 percent).

Source: Philippine Star March 15, 2017 10:52 UTC