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Who are you hiring and how much do you pay? Twenty top companies answer our questions
	How many graduates do you hope to recruit this year?	Average starting salary	Do you offer a golden hello?	Average salary after five years	How many days holiday do graduates get?
Contractors
Balfour Beatty	150	£20,000-24,000	£1,000 net of tax*	n/a	23
Amec	125	£20,000-24,000	no	£27,000-32,000	25
Costain	100	£21,500-23,500	no, but will consider it in future	£30,000	25
Kier	90	£21,000	no	n/a	26
Carillion	90	n/a	no	50% increase on starting salary	26
Bovis Lend Lease	20-25	£22,000	no	£35,000-40,000	25
HBG UK	25	n/a	no	n/a	25
Shepherd Building Group	11	£19,000-21,000	no	£30,000-40,000	24
Wates	10	£21,500	no	£35,000	26
Consultants
Atkins	300	£20,580	£2,500	£29,830	25
Faber Maunsell	200	£20,000-21,000	£2,000	n/a	23 rising to 25
Mott MacDonald	190	£20,000-25,000	£1,000-2,000	n/a	22
Arup	180	£22,000	£2,000-4,000	n/a	22 rising to 25
Halcrow Group	159	£20,000 (BSc/BEng), £21,000 (MSc/MEng)	Up to £2,500	about £30,000	24
Jacobs Babtie	150	£20,500	no, but will consider it in future	n/a	24 in Eng, 23 in Scot, 22 in Ire
WSP Group	100-110	up to £25,000	occasionally	n/a	23 rising to 25
Hyder Consulting	70	£20,000-21,000	no	£28,000-32,000	23
Davis Langdon	60	£19,000-25,000	£2,000 for London-based teams	£35,000-56,000	25
EC Harris	50	£19,000-24,000	no	£30,000-32,000	22
Capita Symonds	40	£18,000-22,000	depends on scarcity of resource	£28,000	20-23
*offered to graduates with particular degrees and experience