Income is each employed graduate's total income for the calendar year from State Revenue Service records — every job, self-employment, micro-enterprise and capital income, taxable or not — with no adjustment for full- or part-time work. It is an annual figure, not a salary, and it covers only graduates counted as employed.
All graduates, by year of graduation
Every cohort is measured in the same year: the 2023 graduates one year after graduating, the 2017 graduates seven years after. They are different people, not one group followed over time.
Graduated
Graduates
Employed
Unemployed or inactive
Emigrated
No information
Mean income, 2024
Median income, 2024
2023 · 1 year on
1,782
1,353 (76%)
125 (7.0%)
19 (1.1%)
285 (16%)
€32,117
€25,766
2022 · 2 years on
1,637
1,203 (73%)
106 (6.5%)
2 (0.1%)
326 (20%)
€35,516
€27,876
2021 · 3 years on
1,710
1,260 (74%)
141 (8.2%)
9 (0.5%)
300 (18%)
€37,350
€29,490
2020 · 4 years on
1,636
1,250 (76%)
134 (8.2%)
2 (0.1%)
250 (15%)
€39,319
€28,748
2019 · 5 years on
1,456
1,096 (75%)
98 (6.7%)
7 (0.5%)
255 (18%)
€35,822
€29,125
2018 · 6 years on
1,470
1,126 (77%)
124 (8.4%)
4 (0.3%)
216 (15%)
€38,582
€30,025
2017 · 7 years on
1,424
1,148 (81%)
110 (7.7%)
5 (0.4%)
161 (11%)
€40,616
€31,258
By level of study
Short-cycle professional higher education (college)
Graduated
Graduates
Employed
Unemployed or inactive
Emigrated
No information
Mean income, 2024
Median income, 2024
2023 · 1 year on
96
82 (85%)
14 (15%)
0 (0%)
0 (0%)
€24,188
€20,872
2022 · 2 years on
84
76 (90%)
8 (9.5%)
0 (0%)
0 (0%)
€26,789
€23,111
2021 · 3 years on
110
87 (79%)
23 (21%)
0 (0%)
0 (0%)
€24,416
€21,933
2020 · 4 years on
93
84 (90%)
7 (7.5%)
0 (0%)
2 (2.2%)
€21,174
€20,574
2019 · 5 years on
86
74 (86%)
7 (8.1%)
0 (0%)
5 (5.8%)
€26,541
€24,165
2018 · 6 years on
99
87 (88%)
9 (9.1%)
0 (0%)
3 (3.0%)
€24,421
€20,985
2017 · 7 years on
71
61 (86%)
6 (8.5%)
0 (0%)
4 (5.6%)
€22,970
€20,382
Professional bachelor's degree
Graduated
Graduates
Employed
Unemployed or inactive
Emigrated
No information
Mean income, 2024
Median income, 2024
2023 · 1 year on
354
331 (94%)
21 (5.9%)
2 (0.6%)
0 (0%)
€23,378
€22,523
2022 · 2 years on
252
235 (93%)
16 (6.3%)
0 (0%)
1 (0.4%)
€24,241
€22,545
2021 · 3 years on
300
268 (89%)
29 (9.7%)
0 (0%)
3 (1.0%)
€25,549
€25,586
2020 · 4 years on
366
331 (90%)
31 (8.5%)
0 (0%)
4 (1.1%)
€26,046
€24,569
2019 · 5 years on
340
308 (91%)
26 (7.6%)
0 (0%)
6 (1.8%)
€25,286
€23,763
2018 · 6 years on
487
404 (83%)
47 (9.7%)
1 (0.2%)
35 (7.2%)
€29,093
€25,757
2017 · 7 years on
500
429 (86%)
33 (6.6%)
1 (0.2%)
37 (7.4%)
€33,526
€26,774
Bachelor's degree
Graduated
Graduates
Employed
Unemployed or inactive
Emigrated
No information
Mean income, 2024
Median income, 2024
2023 · 1 year on
338
285 (84%)
50 (15%)
1 (0.3%)
2 (0.6%)
€19,984
€17,957
2022 · 2 years on
293
239 (82%)
47 (16%)
1 (0.3%)
6 (2.0%)
€21,211
€20,904
2021 · 3 years on
308
248 (81%)
51 (17%)
6 (1.9%)
3 (1.0%)
€25,978
€22,631
2020 · 4 years on
204
176 (86%)
25 (12%)
0 (0%)
3 (1.5%)
€41,778
€23,943
2019 · 5 years on
167
142 (85%)
20 (12%)
4 (2.4%)
1 (0.6%)
€25,438
€23,818
2018 · 6 years on
175
143 (82%)
27 (15%)
0 (0%)
5 (2.9%)
€28,589
€23,773
2017 · 7 years on
218
170 (78%)
39 (18%)
1 (0.5%)
8 (3.7%)
€28,722
€25,756
Master's degree
Graduated
Graduates
Employed
Unemployed or inactive
Emigrated
No information
Mean income, 2024
Median income, 2024
2023 · 1 year on
156
135 (87%)
10 (6.4%)
5 (3.2%)
6 (3.8%)
€34,693
€28,092
2022 · 2 years on
143
125 (87%)
15 (10%)
1 (0.7%)
2 (1.4%)
€30,632
€28,672
2021 · 3 years on
126
114 (90%)
7 (5.6%)
0 (0%)
5 (4.0%)
€34,307
€27,810
2020 · 4 years on
94
73 (78%)
14 (15%)
0 (0%)
7 (7.4%)
€32,394
€30,390
2019 · 5 years on
83
73 (88%)
9 (11%)
0 (0%)
1 (1.2%)
€33,182
€30,716
2018 · 6 years on
79
73 (92%)
5 (6.3%)
0 (0%)
1 (1.3%)
€43,281
€28,988
2017 · 7 years on
84
72 (86%)
7 (8.3%)
1 (1.2%)
4 (4.8%)
€35,690
€28,944
Professional qualification after a bachelor's (no degree)
Graduated
Graduates
Employed
Unemployed or inactive
Emigrated
No information
Mean income, 2024
Median income, 2024
2023 · 1 year on
4
—
—
—
—
—
—
2021 · 3 years on
3
—
—
—
—
—
—
2020 · 4 years on
3
—
—
—
—
—
—
2019 · 5 years on
9
9 (100%)
0 (0%)
0 (0%)
0 (0%)
—
—
2018 · 6 years on
21
18 (86%)
2 (9.5%)
1 (4.8%)
0 (0%)
—
—
2017 · 7 years on
12
11 (92%)
1 (8.3%)
0 (0%)
0 (0%)
—
—
Professional master's degree
Graduated
Graduates
Employed
Unemployed or inactive
Emigrated
No information
Mean income, 2024
Median income, 2024
2023 · 1 year on
119
112 (94%)
6 (5.0%)
0 (0%)
1 (0.8%)
€32,063
€26,078
2022 · 2 years on
132
127 (96%)
5 (3.8%)
0 (0%)
0 (0%)
€38,455
€30,173
2021 · 3 years on
294
275 (94%)
13 (4.4%)
1 (0.3%)
5 (1.7%)
€55,639
€44,766
2020 · 4 years on
382
343 (90%)
33 (8.6%)
1 (0.3%)
5 (1.3%)
€50,230
€39,959
2019 · 5 years on
316
288 (91%)
16 (5.1%)
1 (0.3%)
11 (3.5%)
€46,902
€38,361
2018 · 6 years on
289
257 (89%)
22 (7.6%)
1 (0.3%)
9 (3.1%)
€55,628
€43,466
2017 · 7 years on
282
263 (93%)
11 (3.9%)
1 (0.4%)
7 (2.5%)
€51,564
€40,576
Long professional programme after secondary school (5+ years)
Graduated
Graduates
Employed
Unemployed or inactive
Emigrated
No information
Mean income, 2024
Median income, 2024
2023 · 1 year on
549
244 (44%)
20 (3.6%)
10 (1.8%)
275 (50%)
€38,130
€31,456
2022 · 2 years on
565
237 (42%)
15 (2.7%)
0 (0%)
313 (55%)
€40,852
€35,646
2021 · 3 years on
548
245 (45%)
18 (3.3%)
2 (0.4%)
283 (52%)
€44,056
€38,396
2020 · 4 years on
478
224 (47%)
24 (5.0%)
1 (0.2%)
229 (48%)
€45,705
€38,007
2019 · 5 years on
455
202 (44%)
20 (4.4%)
2 (0.4%)
231 (51%)
€48,116
€43,191
2018 · 6 years on
320
144 (45%)
12 (3.8%)
1 (0.3%)
163 (51%)
€51,830
€46,484
2017 · 7 years on
257
142 (55%)
13 (5.1%)
1 (0.4%)
101 (39%)
€67,128
€55,953
Third-cycle professional programme
Graduated
Graduates
Employed
Unemployed or inactive
Emigrated
No information
Mean income, 2024
Median income, 2024
2023 · 1 year on
149
146 (98%)
2 (1.3%)
1 (0.7%)
0 (0%)
€64,715
€56,579
2022 · 2 years on
151
149 (99%)
0 (0%)
0 (0%)
2 (1.3%)
€69,089
€66,713
Doctoral degree
Graduated
Graduates
Employed
Unemployed or inactive
Emigrated
No information
Mean income, 2024
Median income, 2024
2023 · 1 year on
17
15 (88%)
1 (5.9%)
0 (0%)
1 (5.9%)
—
—
2022 · 2 years on
17
15 (88%)
0 (0%)
0 (0%)
2 (12%)
—
—
2021 · 3 years on
21
20 (95%)
0 (0%)
0 (0%)
1 (4.8%)
—
—
2020 · 4 years on
16
16 (100%)
0 (0%)
0 (0%)
0 (0%)
—
—
By programme group (53)
Each line shows the group's newest cohort; open it for every cohort. The file gives study levels and programme groups as codes of the Latvian education classification (Cabinet Regulation No. 322); the English names are our translations. A few groups from an older edition of the classification aren't named in it and are shown by thematic area with their number.
Short-cycle professional higher education (college)
SportPersonal services2023: 46 graduates · 87% employed · median €19,089
PsychologySocial and behavioural sciences2023: 2 graduates
Graduated
Graduates
Employed
Emigrated
Median income, 2024
2023 · 1 year on
2
—
—
—
Political scienceSocial and behavioural sciences2023: 1 graduates
Graduated
Graduates
Employed
Emigrated
Median income, 2024
2023 · 1 year on
1
—
—
—
2022 · 2 years on
2
—
—
—
Management and administrationBusiness and administration2023: 1 graduates
Graduated
Graduates
Employed
Emigrated
Median income, 2024
2023 · 1 year on
1
—
—
—
2022 · 2 years on
1
—
—
—
PharmacyHealth care2022: 1 graduates
Graduated
Graduates
Employed
Emigrated
Median income, 2024
2022 · 2 years on
1
—
—
—
2021 · 3 years on
2
—
—
—
2020 · 4 years on
1
—
—
—
Sociology and cultural studiesSocial and behavioural sciences2021: 1 graduates
Graduated
Graduates
Employed
Emigrated
Median income, 2024
2021 · 3 years on
1
—
—
—
How to read these figures
Status is each graduate's situation in November of the year measured. “Unemployed or inactive” is one figure in the source: it includes people registered as unemployed and people outside the labour market — among them graduates studying without a job — so it is not an unemployment rate. “Emigrated” is the Central Statistical Bureau's estimate of who left Latvia. “No information” covers graduates with no personal code in the education register and those on short-term residence permits, which includes many foreign graduates — so the employed share understates institutions with many international students.
To protect privacy the ministry withholds detail: the status split where 5 or fewer graduates in a group were employed, income where 30 or fewer were, and income for doctoral graduates altogether. A dash means withheld, not zero — and we never work a withheld figure out from the others.
Source: Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Latvia (Izglītības un zinātnes ministrija), “2017_2023.g. Latvijas augstākās izglītības iestāžu absolventi 2020.–2024. monitoringa gados”, tax year 2024 file, data.gov.lv, released under CC0 1.0. English names, translations of the classification codes, shares and the selection shown are CollegeMatcher's.