Graduate vacancies at the country’s leading employers have been cut by a sixth this year, but lucrative opportunities still await university leavers prepared to stack supermarket shelves.

The discount retailer Aldi is named today as the best-paying graduate recruiter, offering a starting salary of £40,000, rising to £60,000 after three years, and an Audi 4 company car.

The pay beats the £39,000 offered at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and the £38,000 at Slaughter and May, which top the list of law firms that make up most of the best-paying companies for graduates, according to a survey of graduate vacancies for The Times Top 100 Graduate Employers. It also compares favourably with the £38,000 offered by investment banks, which are cutting back on graduate recruitment.

Source: The Times Online
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