Graduate Employment Survey

Our Graduate Employment survey is conducted annually with the most recent class of SAIT grads.

We conduct this survey to ensure our programs are relevant to industry and our graduates are finding success. We also want to help prospective students make informed decisions about their career paths.

2025 results

Our 2025 Graduate Employment survey was conducted between January 9 and April 19, 2026. Of the 7,825 credit program graduates, we received responses from 4,037, constituting a 52% response rate. Of these respondents, 87% reported being employed or having worked for three or more months before completing the survey. 

The following indicators have experienced changes over the last year’s results:

• 62% secured training-related jobs, a four percentage point decrease from 2024.
• The annual median salary for full-time training-related employment has increased by approximately $2,000 to $54,080.
• 84% of graduates in training-related jobs have found full-time employment, a decrease of two percentage points.
• 91% of graduates remained in the province of Alberta for employment, a decrease of two percentage points.
• 10% of graduates are pursuing further education, on par with the previous year.

Learn more about our survey methodology

2025 overall employment results by academic school

Survey response

Employment rates

Salary statistics

Additional statistics

Additional statistics related to 2025 graduates

Employment pattern
Employed	87%
Not employed	13%
Total employed
Training related	74%
Non-training related	26%
Training-related employment
Full-time employment	84%
Part-time employment	16%
Location of training-related employment
Calgary	75%
Within Alberta	16%
Outside Alberta	9%

Survey methodology

Objectives

The study was conducted to: 

• determine the extent to which graduates from SAIT programs find employment, the type of employment and the level of starting salaries
• assess the benefits and impact of participating in Work Integrated Learning on future employment opportunities
• gauge the satisfaction levels with various aspects of the educational experience at SAIT
• understand graduates’ use of AI tools and technologies and gather their recommendations for AI-related training SAIT should include in the programs’ curriculum.

Database

A list of 2024/25 graduates from SAIT programs was generated from Banner.

The graduate's name, information on program completed, contact information (telephone numbers and preferred email address) was provided.

Overall, the database included records on 8,166 graduates.

Timing and response rates

The survey was conducted between January 9 and April 19, 2026.

Responses were received from 4,037 credit program graduates (out of 7,825 credit graduate records), constituting a 52% response rate.

In addition, the survey was conducted with 161 pre-employment graduates (out of 319 pre-employment graduate records), resulting in a 50% response rate.

The margin of error overall is equal to +/- 1.05 percentage points at the 95% confidence level, finite population correction factor applied.

Conduct

SAIT engaged Insightrix Research, an independent market research firm, to conduct the 2025 Graduate Satisfaction & Employment Study.

Graduates were informed of the study in advance through their Academic Chairs.

Data collection occurred through a multi-mode survey approach:

• online survey
• telephone interviews
• SMS invitations with survey links
• social media and landing page access.

Overall, 24% of responses were collected by phone, 29% via email invites, 34% via SMS, and the remaining 12% via a landing page.

Follow-up contact with non-respondents was conducted via telephone or SMS to maximize the response rate.

A total of 109,900 contacts were made to graduated students: via phone calls (43,947), email (68,354), or SMS (65,413). The maximum number of call attempts was 29. Additionally, graduates were emailed a total of 14 times, including reminders and were sent SMS a total of 16 times during the study.

Analysis

Survey responses were collected, validated, and analyzed in a centralized database. Results were weighted/extrapolated to represent the full graduate population.

Results for programs with fewer than 30 graduates should be interpreted with caution due to small sample sizes. With smaller base sizes, percentages may provide a distorted picture when a single respondent represents more than 3% of the total respondent base.

Definitions used

• In labour force: graduates who are employed or unemployed but looking for work.
• Employed: graduates employed at the time of the survey or had been employed prior to the survey for three or more months.
• Employment rate: the number of employed graduates as a percentage of all those graduates who responded to the survey and were in labour force.
• Training-related employment rate: the number of graduates employed in training-related jobs as a percentage of employed graduates.
• Full-time employment: 30 or more hours of work per week.
• Annualized salary: graduates were given a choice to provide salary information as annual or monthly income, daily or weekly earnings or hourly wages. If the response was provided in a unit other than the annual salary, the following calculations were used to derive the respondents' annualized salaries in full-time jobs:
  • hourly wage x (hours worked per week) x 52
  • daily wage x (days a week) x 52
  • weekly salary x 52
  • bi-weekly salary x 52
  • monthly salary x 12
• All salaries above $100,000 per year and below $23,000 per year were double-verified with the respondent. Training-related salaries are not reported for programs with 5 or less responses.

Last updated June 2026