Today’s graduates seek an enriching work/life balance. They live for experiences and they work hard to play hard. So exactly where in the UK can they strike this? Where will their wages go furthest? Where should they look to for a healthy start to working life?
We took a look at 30 of the UK’s biggest towns and cities; and then we did the maths. For each place, we studied average salaries in that area and the rent price of a typical 2-bed flat locally. We also looked at the costs of goods and services compared with the capital, and worked out how much more or less expensive they were per every £100 spent in London. We have converted this into a 'Cost of Living' score, with London having the base score of 100. Lower scores indicate a low cost of living in comparison to the capital. All of this gave us a true sense of how far money will go for a start-up graduate.
Take a look at our map to see what we found.
