About 60% of men who studied high-tech subjects earn more than NIS 13,000 net

About 60% of men who studied high-tech subjects such as computer science earn more than NIS 13,000 net per month, compared with 41% of women who studied these subjects. Overall, 53.8% of those who studied high-tech professions earn this wage. This emerges from data published by the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS).
This is a new survey that examines the relationship between higher education, employment and income in high-tech among graduates of first degree studies who began studying in 2010-2011, and that women generally study fewer professions that characterize the industry. They did this, succeeded in integrating into high-tech work to a similar extent to that of men, but earned less than they did.
At the same time, the proportion of men who studied for a bachelor's degree and those employed in the industry stood at 24%, compared to 8% of the women. However, there is no significant difference between the percentage of women who studied high-tech and employed in the industry and the percentage of men - 72% versus 76%, respectively, but the proportion of women earning high wages is lower than men.
According to the survey, about half of those employed in high-tech studied engineering, about a quarter studied mathematics, statistics and computer sciences, 10% studied social sciences, and 6% studied business and management. The field of study also has an impact on wages, while 54% of those who studied high-tech earned an average of NIS 13,000 per month, compared with 12% of those who studied other subjects. At the same time, unemployment rates among those who studied high-tech subjects were lower than those who studied other subjects - 8.6% compared to 13%, respectively.
A breakdown by high-tech subjects revealed higher employment rates among graduates of Computer Engineering - Computer Sciences (86%) and Computer Sciences (80%), compared with
Electronics engineering (57.5%) and electrical engineering (66%).
In comparison between universities and colleges there were no significant differences in wages and employment of high-tech graduates. For example, among graduates of Computer Science, 84% of university graduates and 83% of college graduates were employed in the industry, while the percentage of those earning an income of more than NIS 13,000 a month was 62% in both cases. However, among graduates of electrical engineering there were differences in favor of college graduates over college graduates - with employment rates of 80% compared to 72%, respectively.
The findings also show that in occupations close to the high-tech industry, the percentage of employees in the industry is relatively high: 48.2% in industrial engineering and management, 48.2% in physics, and 36.6% in mechanical engineering. The percentage of employment in high-tech was relatively low (12% -6%), and in professions such as medicine, education, law, literature, languages, and agriculture, the percentage of employed persons in the industry was very low and ranged around a few percent, If any.
On the other hand, learning a high-tech profession increases the chances of receiving high income but is not enough. Thus, only 10% of those who studied high-tech subjects but were not employed in the industry had high incomes, compared to 60% of those who studied hi-tech and employed in the industry. In contrast, 37% of those who did not study high-tech subjects but employed in high-tech had high incomes.
According to population groups, the percentage of employed persons in high-tech who studied high-tech (76.5%) was significantly higher than that of Arabs who studied these subjects (54.7%).
In addition, the percentage of Secular Jews studying high-tech occupations was significantly higher than their share of the population in the 25-34 age group (63% versus 41%, respectively). Among the haredim, the religious, the traditional-religious and the non-religious traditional, the percentage of those studying in these subjects was significantly lower than their proportion in the population.