Almost half of graduates in the UK are working in non-graduate roles, a report published by the Office of National Statistics (ONS) has found.
The number of graduates from the past five years working in jobs such as sales assistants and care workers has risen to 47%. This is up from 38% in 2008.
However, the report, which defined a graduate as someone with a qualification above A Level standard, said graduates in 2013 were more likely to be employed, less likely to be searching for work and less likely to be out of the labour force than jobseekers with lower qualifications or no qualifications.
Graduates with a degree in medicine or dentistry had the highest employment rate of all graduates, at 95%, followed by those with media and information studies, at 93%.
Medical graduates also had the highest median pay of £45,000 a year, and media and information studies graduates had the lowest pay (£21,000) of all subject groups.
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