Balogh Gábor — Szabó-Bálint Brigitta — Uhrin Anett

The factors influencing business students' realistic and unrealistic salary expectations and the impact of work experience

Our study deals with the salary expectations of university students in business and economics, including the role of experience. Among the wage equation models in economics, there are many that incorporate the number of years spent in professional practice into the models as an explanatory variable. The wages increase with experience typically in the long term. In our analysis, we focused on a special stage of the career: how university students' first work experiences affect their (expected) earnings. Our research question was whether the first few months, half a year or even a year of professional experience demonstrably increases salary expectations (i.e., does this phenomenon also apply in the short term), does it have a significant effect at all, or may it have the opposite effect on expectations. For the analysis, we used the results of a survey conducted at the University of Pécs (a sample of 296 people) in 2022.

LXX. évf., 2023. November (1261 - 1287. O.), DOI:10.18414/KSZ.2023.11.1261, Workshop

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