uOttawa Tax-Linkage Project

The uOttawa Tax-Linkage Project linked administrative data on uOttawa graduates to their tax records in order to track their post-schooling labour market earnings. What emerges is a unique and powerful portrait of how graduates from different faculties performed in the labour market from 1998 to 2011. Explore the results with these interactive graphs. All earnings figures are expressed in constant 2011 dollars. For details about the data, follow this link ≫.

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Average Earnings Profiles

This graph shows the paths of the average annual earnings of uOttawa graduates from different faculty groups. Use the accompanying slide bar, drop-down menu and buttons to select a graduation cohort, gender, and faculty groups.



Select Category: Earnings – All Earnings – Male Earnings – Female Gender Earnings Gap

Select a Graduation Cohort

1998 2010

Selected Year: 1998

Notes: All earnings figures are in constant 2011 dollars. Results by gender are unavailable for some faculty groups due to sample size issues.

Median Earnings Profiles

This graph shows the paths of the median annual earnings of uOttawa graduates from different faculty groups. Use the accompanying slide bar, drop-down menu and buttons to select a graduation cohort, gender, and faculty groups.



Select Category: Earnings – All Earnings – Male Earnings – Female Gender Gap

Select a Graduation Cohort

1998 2010

Selected Year: 1998

Notes: All earnings figures are in constant 2011 dollars. Results by gender are unavailable for some faculty groups due to sample size issues.

Entry Earnings

This graph shows the average first year earnings after graduation for different graduation cohorts in given faculty groups. Use the accompanying buttons to choose faculty groups.

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Cumulative Earnings

All earnings figures are in constant 2011 dollars.

This graph shows the average cumulative amount earned after graduation by graduates of different cohorts from 1999 to 2010. Use the slide bar to pick a graduation cohort.



Select a Graduation Cohort

1998 2010

Selected Year: 1998

Notes:

All earnings figures are in constant 2011 dollars.

Average cumulative earnings: The average cumulative earnings are calculated as the sum of the average earnings over years since graduation.

Time-discounting: Time discounting is a concept of expressing the value of future earnings in the present by reducing the amount to offset the time until those earnings would be available. The time-discounted values calculated here assume the annual discount rate of 2 percent (i.e. $1,020 in one year is worth $1,000 right now).

Graduation Cohort Comparison

This graph compares the earnings profiles of different graduation cohorts for a given faculty group. Use the drop-down menu to select a faculty group.



Select Category: All Business Engineering and Computer Sciences Health Humanities Mathematics and Natural Sciences Social Sciences Other

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For More

All earnings figures are in constant 2011 dollars.

Post-Schooling Outcomes of University Graduates: A Tax Data Linkage Approach

by Ross Finnie, Dejan Pavlic, Nemanja Jevtovic, and Stephen Childs, 2015