International Domestic 2019 2020 2021 2019 2020 2021 Labour force participation rate (%) 54.3k Undergraduate 77.8 78.1 80.8 92.4 91.4 92.0 international undergraduates Postgraduate coursework 91.1 90.4 91.9 96.3 95.5 95.4 median salary (2021) Postgraduate research 95.3 95.4 94.4 93.9 94.3 94.8 Median salary, employed full-time ($) Undergraduate 51,100 53,000 54,300 62,600 64,700 65,000 Postgraduate coursework 52,200 52,800 54,800 85,300 87,400 89,700 54.8k Postgraduate research 83,000 85,000 86,900 90,000 93,000 95,000 international postgraduate In full-time study (%) coursework graduates median Undergraduate 33.5 33.8 33.7 18.9 18.5 21.1 salary (2021) Postgraduate coursework 13.5 14.4 15.0 6.0 6.6 7.6 Postgraduate research 10.5 9.8 11.1 5.8 6.9 6.8 Note: Median salary figures only include data for international graduates working in Australia. 86.9k Overall employment rates (which includes graduates working on a full-time, part-time or casual basis) followed a similar pattern in 2021. international postgraduate International graduates recorded lower overall employment rates than domestic graduates by a margin of 20.2 percentage points for research graduates median salary undergraduates, 20.7 percentage points at postgraduate coursework level and 5.9 percentage points at postgraduate research level. (2021) For undergraduates, labour force participation was also lower for international than for domestic graduates in 2021, at 80.8 per cent and 92.0 per cent respectively. However, the difference in labour force participation was less pronounced at postgraduate coursework level (91.9 percent international, 95.4 per cent domestic) and postgraduate research level (94.4 per cent international, 94.8 per cent domestic). The lower labour force participation of international graduates is partly explained by high rates of further study, as discussed below. For those graduates who are employed full-time in Australia, median salaries are also consistently lower for international than domestic graduates. For undergraduates, the median salary in 2021 was $54,300 for international graduates, compared with $65,000 for domestic graduates, a difference of $10,700. The salary differential was even more pronounced at postgraduate coursework level, at $34,900. It is noticeable that the median salary was only slightly higher for international graduates at postgraduate coursework level than at undergraduate level. Again, the difference between salaries was less pronounced at postgraduate research level, at $8,100. 2021 GOS International Report 3