Higher salaries, but slight dip in full-time jobs for SIT's class of 2024: Survey

79% land full-time permanent employment within six months of graduation

- Koh Ming Lun

Fresh graduates from the Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT) in 2024 drew higher starting salaries, although fewer of them landed jobs after graduation.

Those who got full-time permanent jobs earned a median monthly salary of $4,200 in 2024, up from $4,000 in 2023 and $3,950 in 2022, according to SIT’s latest graduate employment survey released on Oct 1.

This marks the highest median gross monthly salary ever reported for SIT graduates.

The survey also showed a slight dip in the employment rate of fresh graduates, with 79 per cent of SIT’s graduating cohort securing full-time permanent work within six months of graduation, down from 81.4 per cent in 2023.

Overall, 87 per cent of SIT’s graduates found employment – including part-time and freelance work – compared with 88.5 per cent in 2023.

In a statement, the university said that 56 per cent of undergraduates in 2024 who were offered jobs in advance from their employers in the Integrated Work Study Programme (IWSP) accepted the offers.

This is higher than the 49 per cent in 2023.