i have heard of the Eqeetee guys and it is really bad

Its a market. willing buyer willing seller...... The question whether this is ethical is another story.

I think the trick for any 1st job and especially for fresh graduates is not to fall in love with your employer. Let the first job be your 4th/5th year in college only that this time you are being paid to learn. Experience and not the money par se should be the key.... after 1 year or so, jump out..... thats where you start building your career. if you are stuck with your 1st employer for the last 5 years and you joined as a fresh graduate, then you are doing yourself great disservice.

For the old guards, like me, we are allowed to say on till death or retirement do us part! LOL ;))))(am kidding).

10k for a fresh graduate is more than enough...as for Wendz and the rest of my house...till retirement do us apart...still wanted to retire at 35 till i heard this from my beloved Kibaki "sio ati kila usiku ya pili ya tatu kazi yako ni kuproduce watoto, kwani hauna kazi ingine...ABK"

its surely a pathetic situation to be in, but has @wendz has said, there is always a starting point and that is what it is.

Actually it helps resolve the problem called "deadlock", which is the worst nightmare for new job seekers.

This thread reminds me a guy who was employed by Stanchart bak in the late 90's n there was armed robbery whea every cashier emptied his/her till.Luckily for him his till was not emptied but tha stupid fella gave the branch manager the cash, he was rewarded with 50k for being a gud employee.Three months down the line he was sacked.
Talk of wasted opportunity haki angekuwa Mugikuyu sijui niseme nini.....

So; how much do you think fresh graduates should be paid...and why?

I'm with Mukiha on this one.I started in the banking industry & I'm still in it.When I joined straight from campus I was getting a net of 32k....my net is nearly 3times that less than 2yrs later.
I have come to discover that what matters is not whether you work for long hours, the amount of cash you handle, the papers or even how much the bank makes.
The only thing that matters is the VALUE of your input i.e how many days the company can survive without your services.The guys I joined with still earn as low as 27k, some are on my level, others are even above mine.....if you have a chat with these 3 kinds of people, you will find that they reason very differently.For a young man/woman, the pre-occupation to me should be valuable experience and not salary. If you get this right, companies will start hunting you....instead of you doing the hunting.They will be sending their offers and CVs to you!

By the way, the low starting salaries are in all industries nowadays not just banks.There are too many graduates with good grades and no work skills looking for jobs.

But even better.....think of starting your own business where you decide how much you should pay yourself.

@Birdman
Enuf said..

Now what has the branch manager's tribe got to do with it?

Any way, the sacked guy's day will come and he will reap the benefits of his honesty. As for the branch manager, his forty days will surely come to an end.

Tony stark stop being a slow one:its all in tha story n FYI muguka is not part of the stuff i take:Am used to tha hard stuff