So many factors determine how much a graduate will be paid.
1. a technical course like architecture, programming and medicine, you cant expect to pay a person 10k per month. some courses like teaching coz they are easy to do might deserve that
2. if you are a consultant and using the graduate to make millions of money, then you are indebted to pay him a lot, more than 100k if he brings you more than 600k every month. Like Quantity surveyors and architects.
3. its so obvious, a CPA section 2 holder or these diplomas, cannot outdo a graduate. in technical firlds like engineering, the diploma guy will beat the graduate in simple undertakings like wiring and changing filters, but go to the design stage and testing designing, you will appreciate a graduate engineer.
4. papers play a very vital role in Kenya today, my friend did Acturial Science, CPAk and ACCA and was immediately employed by KenyaRe with a starting salary of 120k immediately after college.
5. my dentist friend recently graduated from UoN and works as a part timer with some dentist in town, at the end of the day, he is paid 3k. at the end of the month the recent graduate dentist makes abt 160k, salo ya manager wa Equity Bank.
6. being a member of a professional body improves your bargaining power.
7. Online jobs are quite plenty nowadays, i earn a net of 50k and make 25k monthly working online after work.
at the end of the day, its not the money that will bring you happiness. live your life to the fullest, dress nicely, eat good food, exercise and watch and laugh and you will enjoy your life more than my friend who works in Britam earning 600k Gross but still lives at home with his mum!! munching a chic has to be away game for him!!
Enjoy every moment of your life, you never know when your time will come.