Aldi offers £42000 starting salary rising to £70000 in 4 years plus benefits including Audi car. Lidl close behind. Average graduate starting salaries are in the £23- 26,000 range. Aldi currently have 400 graduate area managers and at Lidl 600 graduates are in management roles. The boss of Aldi UK started as a graduate trainee.
Amongst all the understandable concern about the costs and returns of going to university these examples should encourage university applicants in terms of the broad range of graduate job availability.
