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.
2025 overall employment results
| Employment rate | |
| 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% |
Definitions
- In labour force: graduates who are employed or unemployed but looking for work.
- Employment rate: the number of employed graduates as a percentage of all those graduates who responded and were in the labour force prior to the survey for three or more months.
- 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
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