Industry Overview - Publishing, Media

Estimated graduate starting salary: £12,000 - £18,000
Typical salary after training: £23,000 - £35,000

The publishing and media industries represent a popular choice among graduates who recognise a sector that offers the opportunity to develop ideas and be creative, often getting enormous amounts of job satisfaction from seeing something through the entire creative cycle. The publishing and media sectors are seen as exhilarating environments to work in and as a consequence job openings are fiercely contested. The most sought after positions tend to be in the print and broadcast media.

Commercial publishing employs around 185,000 people nationally with 36,000 of those being part-time. It is estimated to have an annual turnover of around £18 billion. There are over 10,000 commercial employers in the sector consisting of a small number of multi-national companies and a large number of small to medium size enterprises (SME's).

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