The employment rate of doctorate holders, who earned their degrees from a local Korean university, immediately after graduation is 58.0%, and 62.6% of them are irregular workers. Breaking down the share of irregular workers by academic major, the humanities majors accounted for the highest share of 90.8%, while engineering majors had the lowest share of 40.1%.
64.3% of full-time workers found work in private companies, while 81.1% of irregular workers were employed in colleges.
Most of the PhDs with humanities major were part-time lecturers (86.3%) while most of the PhDs who majored in engineering were postdoctoral researchers (77.6%).
The average salary of regular workers was 54,986,000 won, earning 28,561,000 won more than irregular workers with 26,425,000 won.