The employment rate in provincial areas is 40.3% for graduates of four-year engineering schools, which is lower than the overall average (40.7%) but higher than other major graduates (17.0%) of universities in the capital area.
Among engineering graduates working in provincial areas, 18.3% graduated from the top 10 most prestigious universities, which is the highest among all majors.
The average monthly wage of male engineering graduates working in provincial areas is 2.377 million won, which is higher than that earned by those with natural science majors (2.33 million won), humanities majors (2.33 million won), education majors (2.294 million won), and with arts/sports majors (1.976 million won).
Looking at the level of job satisfaction of workers who graduated from the top 10 most prestigious universities, 70.5% of capital area workers indicated they are satisfied with their jobs as compared with 77.6% for provincial area workers, meaning the job satisfaction level of provincial area workers is 7.1%p higher.