University of calgary, haskayne school of business, bcomm graduate survey

2004 BComm/BHRM Graduate Survey Report
June and November Graduates
A total of 444 of 519 graduates from the June and November 2004 Bachelor of Commerce graduating class were
contacted; the remaining 75 students were unreachable.

Employment:
• 90% (361 of 402) of students looking for work were employed within six months of graduation
• 91% of those students who had completed at least one co-op term and were looking for work are employed
• 40 students are NOT looking for work
• 2 students declined the survey
Salaries: Average
Concentration Area
Average Salary
Salary Range
Accounting (All)
Accounting (Non-Articling)
Accounting (CA Articling)
All Concentrations (CA Articling)
Business Process Management
Operations Management
Transportation & Logistics
Entrepreneurship & Innovation
Finance/Risk Management
Risk Management Insurance
Human Resources
International Business
Management Information Systems
Marketing
Petroleum Land Management
Tourism/Marketing
• Percentage employed does not include graduates not looking for work, unreachable or who declined the
• Percentage employed includes all types of positions.
• The average salary includes full-time and contract salaries only; part-time and summer salaries are not included. • Salary figures include only salaries disclosed and do not include bonuses, commissions or other additional • Salaries reported in hourly wages were converted to annual salaries using a 40-hour work week. • The above salary table lists data based on the official concentration area of each graduate; some graduates
were working in other career fields at the time of the survey. COMPANIES THAT HIRED 2004 BCOMM/BHRM
GRADUATES
Office of the Auditor General of Alberta First Calgary Savings & Credit Union Ltd. Royal & SunAlliance Insurance Company BP Canada Energy Company - Gas and Power Campbell Chapman Close Chartered Accountants Canada West Equipment Dealers Association James Yee & Company Certified General 2004 BComm/BHRM Graduate Survey
Working by Concentration
115
110
105
100
Total in Concentration
Total Contacted
Total Working
80
75
70
65
60
55
50
45
40
35
30
25
20
15
10
ACCT BPMA ENTI FNCE FNRM GENL HROD IBUS MGIS MKTG OPMA PLMA RMIN TOUR TRMK TLOG BHRM
Note: Of the 92 Accounting graduates contacted, 32% were in Non-CA positions and 63% were in CA Articling
positions. There were 13 Non-Acct Graduates working in CA Firms (One Finance and 11 General graduates in CA
Articling positions and one MGIS graduate in an IS position)

Source: http://haskayne.ucalgary.ca/files/haskayne/BComm_Salary_2004.pdf