A geography of employment and earnings
This webpage presents a method developed by the Office for Students for grouping areas based on measures of local graduate opportunity. These groupings could help contextualise graduate outcomes by capturing some of the labour market differences experienced by graduates living in different parts of the UK.
We have produced two groupings:
- The geography of employment, based on graduates progressing to professional or managerial jobs or further study 18 months after graduation
- The geography of earnings, based on graduates progressing to well-paid jobs or further study three years after graduation. This is an official statistic in development.
- Ref:
- OfS 2022.57 and OfS 2026.53
- Date:
- 5 November 2026
Geography of employment
Geography of earnings
This is an official statistic which falls under the official statistics Code of Practice. We are actively seeking feedback for this analysis and in particular on the Geography of earnings grouping which is an official statistic in development. Please email comments to [email protected].
Archive
Below are our previous reports and associated data tables, which were originally published in June 2021 and updated in November 2021. They introduced the method for grouping areas based on measures of local graduate opportunity.
November 2021
June 2021
Last updated 05 November 2026 + show all updates
05 November 2026 - Release of new official statistics in development covering the geography of earnings.
30 September 2022 - Release of official statistics with experimental elements, updating and extending on the previous report.
04 November 2021 - Release of experimental statistics, updating and extending on the previous report
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