Analysis of MBA Starting Salaries
Lisma Jena
25 December 2017
setwd("C:/Users/lenovo/Desktop/se")
mba.df=read.csv("MBA Starting Salaries Data.csv")
View(mba.df)Summary of the Data Set
summary(mba.df)## age sex gmat_tot gmat_qpc
## Min. :22.00 Min. :1.000 Min. :450.0 Min. :28.00
## 1st Qu.:25.00 1st Qu.:1.000 1st Qu.:580.0 1st Qu.:72.00
## Median :27.00 Median :1.000 Median :620.0 Median :83.00
## Mean :27.36 Mean :1.248 Mean :619.5 Mean :80.64
## 3rd Qu.:29.00 3rd Qu.:1.000 3rd Qu.:660.0 3rd Qu.:93.00
## Max. :48.00 Max. :2.000 Max. :790.0 Max. :99.00
## gmat_vpc gmat_tpc s_avg f_avg
## Min. :16.00 Min. : 0.0 Min. :2.000 Min. :0.000
## 1st Qu.:71.00 1st Qu.:78.0 1st Qu.:2.708 1st Qu.:2.750
## Median :81.00 Median :87.0 Median :3.000 Median :3.000
## Mean :78.32 Mean :84.2 Mean :3.025 Mean :3.062
## 3rd Qu.:91.00 3rd Qu.:94.0 3rd Qu.:3.300 3rd Qu.:3.250
## Max. :99.00 Max. :99.0 Max. :4.000 Max. :4.000
## quarter work_yrs frstlang salary
## Min. :1.000 Min. : 0.000 Min. :1.000 Min. : 0
## 1st Qu.:1.250 1st Qu.: 2.000 1st Qu.:1.000 1st Qu.: 0
## Median :2.000 Median : 3.000 Median :1.000 Median : 999
## Mean :2.478 Mean : 3.872 Mean :1.117 Mean : 39026
## 3rd Qu.:3.000 3rd Qu.: 4.000 3rd Qu.:1.000 3rd Qu.: 97000
## Max. :4.000 Max. :22.000 Max. :2.000 Max. :220000
## satis
## Min. : 1.0
## 1st Qu.: 5.0
## Median : 6.0
## Mean :172.2
## 3rd Qu.: 7.0
## Max. :998.0library(psych)## Warning: package 'psych' was built under R version 3.3.3describe(mba.df)## vars n mean sd median trimmed mad min max
## age 1 274 27.36 3.71 27 26.76 2.97 22 48
## sex 2 274 1.25 0.43 1 1.19 0.00 1 2
## gmat_tot 3 274 619.45 57.54 620 618.86 59.30 450 790
## gmat_qpc 4 274 80.64 14.87 83 82.31 14.83 28 99
## gmat_vpc 5 274 78.32 16.86 81 80.33 14.83 16 99
## gmat_tpc 6 274 84.20 14.02 87 86.12 11.86 0 99
## s_avg 7 274 3.03 0.38 3 3.03 0.44 2 4
## f_avg 8 274 3.06 0.53 3 3.09 0.37 0 4
## quarter 9 274 2.48 1.11 2 2.47 1.48 1 4
## work_yrs 10 274 3.87 3.23 3 3.29 1.48 0 22
## frstlang 11 274 1.12 0.32 1 1.02 0.00 1 2
## salary 12 274 39025.69 50951.56 999 33607.86 1481.12 0 220000
## satis 13 274 172.18 371.61 6 91.50 1.48 1 998
## range skew kurtosis se
## age 26 2.16 6.45 0.22
## sex 1 1.16 -0.66 0.03
## gmat_tot 340 -0.01 0.06 3.48
## gmat_qpc 71 -0.92 0.30 0.90
## gmat_vpc 83 -1.04 0.74 1.02
## gmat_tpc 99 -2.28 9.02 0.85
## s_avg 2 -0.06 -0.38 0.02
## f_avg 4 -2.08 10.85 0.03
## quarter 3 0.02 -1.35 0.07
## work_yrs 22 2.78 9.80 0.20
## frstlang 1 2.37 3.65 0.02
## salary 220000 0.70 -1.05 3078.10
## satis 997 1.77 1.13 22.45## Understanding the different variables of the Data Set.
hist(mba.df$age,xlab="age",ylab="frequency",col = "red", main="Age Distribution")
hist(mba.df$sex, xlab="sex",ylab="frequency",col = "red",main="Sex Distribution")
hist(mba.df$gmat_tot, xlab="gmat total",ylab="frequency",col = "red",main="GMAT total Distribution")
hist(mba.df$gmat_qpc, xlab="gmat_qpc",ylab="frequency",col = "red",main="Gmat_qpc Distribution")
hist(mba.df$gmat_vpc, xlab="gmat_vpc",ylab="frequency",col = "red",main="Gmat_vpc Distribution")
hist(mba.df$gmat_tpc, xlab="gmat_tpc",ylab="frequency",col = "red")
hist(mba.df$s_avg, xlab="s_avg",ylab="frequency",col = "red",main="s_avg Distribution")
hist(mba.df$f_avg, xlab="f_avg",ylab="frequency",col = "blue")
hist(mba.df$quarter, xlab="quater",ylab="frequency",col = "blue")
hist(mba.df$work_yrs, xlab="work_yrs",ylab="frequency",col = "blue",main="Work Experience Distribution")
hist(mba.df$frstlang, xlab="first lang",ylab="frequency",col = "blue",main="First Language Distribution")
hist(mba.df$salary, xlab="salary",ylab="frequency",col = "blue",main="Salary Distribution")
hist(mba.df$satis, xlab="satis",ylab="frequency",col = "blue",main="Satisfcation Distribution")
Scatter Plot
library(car) ## Warning: package 'car' was built under R version 3.3.3##
## Attaching package: 'car'## The following object is masked from 'package:psych':
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## logitscatterplot(mba.df$salary,mba.df$age)
scatterplot(mba.df$salary,mba.df$gmat_tot)
scatterplot(mba.df$salary,mba.df$gmat_qpc)
scatterplot(mba.df$salary,mba.df$gmat_vpc)
scatterplot(mba.df$salary,mba.df$gmat_tpc)
scatterplot(mba.df$salary,mba.df$s_avg)
scatterplot(mba.df$salary,mba.df$f_avg)
scatterplot(mba.df$salary,mba.df$quarter)
scatterplot(mba.df$salary,mba.df$work_yrs)
scatterplot(mba.df$salary,mba.df$frstlang)
scatterplot(mba.df$salary,mba.df$satis)
newdata1 <- mba.df[ which(mba.df$salary !="998" & mba.df$salary !="999"), ]
library(corrgram)## Warning: package 'corrgram' was built under R version 3.3.3 corrgram(newdata1, order=TRUE, lower.panel=panel.shade,
upper.panel=panel.pie, text.panel=panel.txt,
main="MBA starting salary analysis Correlogram")
job.df <- mba.df[ which(mba.df$salary !="998" & mba.df$salary !="999" & mba.df$salary!="0"), ]
head(job.df)## age sex gmat_tot gmat_qpc gmat_vpc gmat_tpc s_avg f_avg quarter
## 35 22 2 660 90 92 94 3.5 3.75 1
## 36 27 2 700 94 98 98 3.3 3.25 1
## 37 25 2 680 87 96 96 3.5 2.67 1
## 38 25 2 650 82 91 93 3.4 3.25 1
## 39 27 1 710 96 96 98 3.3 3.50 1
## 40 28 2 620 52 98 87 3.4 3.75 1
## work_yrs frstlang salary satis
## 35 1 1 85000 5
## 36 2 1 85000 6
## 37 2 1 86000 5
## 38 3 1 88000 7
## 39 2 1 92000 6
## 40 5 1 93000 5Contingency tables showing the affect of various factors on the starting salary
mytable <-xtabs(~salary+sex,data=job.df)
mytable## sex
## salary 1 2
## 64000 0 1
## 77000 1 0
## 78256 0 1
## 82000 0 1
## 85000 1 3
## 86000 0 2
## 88000 0 1
## 88500 1 0
## 90000 3 0
## 92000 2 1
## 93000 2 1
## 95000 4 3
## 96000 3 1
## 96500 1 0
## 97000 2 0
## 98000 6 4
## 99000 0 1
## 100000 4 5
## 100400 1 0
## 101000 0 2
## 101100 1 0
## 101600 1 0
## 102500 1 0
## 103000 1 0
## 104000 2 0
## 105000 11 0
## 106000 2 1
## 107000 1 0
## 107300 1 0
## 107500 1 0
## 108000 2 0
## 110000 0 1
## 112000 3 0
## 115000 5 0
## 118000 1 0
## 120000 3 1
## 126710 1 0
## 130000 1 0
## 145800 1 0
## 146000 1 0
## 162000 1 0
## 220000 0 1Hence we conclude that that most higher starting salaries have been awarded to men.
mytable1 <-xtabs(~salary+work_yrs,data=job.df)
mytable1## work_yrs
## salary 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 10 15 16
## 64000 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
## 77000 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
## 78256 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
## 82000 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
## 85000 0 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
## 86000 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
## 88000 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
## 88500 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
## 90000 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
## 92000 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
## 93000 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0
## 95000 1 1 2 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
## 96000 0 1 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
## 96500 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
## 97000 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
## 98000 0 0 7 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
## 99000 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
## 100000 0 0 6 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
## 100400 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
## 101000 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
## 101100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
## 101600 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
## 102500 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
## 103000 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
## 104000 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
## 105000 0 0 4 4 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1
## 106000 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0
## 107000 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
## 107300 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
## 107500 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
## 108000 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
## 110000 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
## 112000 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1
## 115000 0 2 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
## 118000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
## 120000 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 0
## 126710 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
## 130000 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
## 145800 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
## 146000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
## 162000 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
## 220000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0Hence we can conclude that work experience is very important and a minimum of 1-2 years of experience is needed.
mytable2<-xtabs(~salary+frstlang,data=job.df)
mytable2## frstlang
## salary 1 2
## 64000 1 0
## 77000 1 0
## 78256 1 0
## 82000 1 0
## 85000 4 0
## 86000 2 0
## 88000 1 0
## 88500 1 0
## 90000 3 0
## 92000 3 0
## 93000 3 0
## 95000 7 0
## 96000 4 0
## 96500 1 0
## 97000 2 0
## 98000 8 2
## 99000 0 1
## 100000 9 0
## 100400 1 0
## 101000 2 0
## 101100 1 0
## 101600 1 0
## 102500 1 0
## 103000 1 0
## 104000 1 1
## 105000 11 0
## 106000 3 0
## 107000 1 0
## 107300 0 1
## 107500 1 0
## 108000 2 0
## 110000 1 0
## 112000 3 0
## 115000 5 0
## 118000 0 1
## 120000 4 0
## 126710 1 0
## 130000 1 0
## 145800 1 0
## 146000 1 0
## 162000 1 0
## 220000 0 1It can be concluded that students with English as first language are mostly preferred and get higher salaries and jobs compared to those whose first language is not English.
mytable3<-xtabs(~salary+gmat_tot,data=job.df)
mytable3## gmat_tot
## salary 500 520 530 540 550 560 570 580 590 600 610 620 630 640 650 660
## 64000 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
## 77000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
## 78256 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
## 82000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
## 85000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1
## 86000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
## 88000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
## 88500 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
## 90000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0
## 92000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1
## 93000 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0
## 95000 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0
## 96000 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0
## 96500 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
## 97000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
## 98000 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
## 99000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
## 100000 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 2 0
## 100400 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
## 101000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
## 101100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
## 101600 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
## 102500 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
## 103000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
## 104000 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
## 105000 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 3 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0
## 106000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
## 107000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
## 107300 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
## 107500 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
## 108000 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
## 110000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
## 112000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
## 115000 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0
## 118000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
## 120000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0
## 126710 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
## 130000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
## 145800 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
## 146000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
## 162000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
## 220000 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
## gmat_tot
## salary 670 680 700 710 720
## 64000 0 0 0 0 0
## 77000 0 0 0 0 0
## 78256 0 0 0 0 0
## 82000 1 0 0 0 0
## 85000 0 0 1 0 1
## 86000 0 1 0 0 0
## 88000 0 0 0 0 0
## 88500 0 0 0 0 0
## 90000 0 0 0 0 0
## 92000 0 0 0 1 0
## 93000 0 0 0 0 0
## 95000 2 0 0 0 0
## 96000 0 0 0 0 0
## 96500 0 0 0 0 0
## 97000 0 0 0 0 0
## 98000 1 1 0 1 0
## 99000 0 0 0 0 0
## 100000 0 0 0 1 0
## 100400 0 0 0 0 0
## 101000 0 0 0 0 0
## 101100 0 0 0 0 0
## 101600 0 0 0 0 0
## 102500 1 0 0 0 0
## 103000 0 0 0 0 0
## 104000 0 0 0 0 0
## 105000 0 1 0 0 0
## 106000 0 2 0 0 0
## 107000 0 0 0 0 0
## 107300 0 0 0 0 0
## 107500 0 0 0 0 0
## 108000 0 0 0 0 0
## 110000 0 0 0 0 0
## 112000 1 1 0 0 0
## 115000 0 0 0 1 0
## 118000 0 0 0 0 0
## 120000 1 0 1 0 0
## 126710 0 0 0 0 0
## 130000 0 0 0 0 0
## 145800 0 0 0 0 0
## 146000 0 0 0 0 0
## 162000 0 0 1 0 0
## 220000 0 0 0 0 0Regression Model
Model -1
fit <- lm(job.df$salary ~job.df$gmat_tot+job.df$gmat_qpc+job.df$gmat_vpc+job.df$gmat_tpc, data = job.df)
summary(fit)##
## Call:
## lm(formula = job.df$salary ~ job.df$gmat_tot + job.df$gmat_qpc +
## job.df$gmat_vpc + job.df$gmat_tpc, data = job.df)
##
## Residuals:
## Min 1Q Median 3Q Max
## -40370 -8250 -2164 5253 100097
##
## Coefficients:
## Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
## (Intercept) 109539.54 48054.24 2.279 0.0248 *
## job.df$gmat_tot 55.01 181.71 0.303 0.7627
## job.df$gmat_qpc 718.40 541.90 1.326 0.1880
## job.df$gmat_vpc 546.10 543.85 1.004 0.3178
## job.df$gmat_tpc -1663.16 801.57 -2.075 0.0406 *
## ---
## Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
##
## Residual standard error: 17670 on 98 degrees of freedom
## Multiple R-squared: 0.06089, Adjusted R-squared: 0.02256
## F-statistic: 1.589 on 4 and 98 DF, p-value: 0.1834Gmat_tpc is a significant variable in model 1 The multiple R squared value indicates that the model accounts for 6% of the variance in the variables
Model 2
fit1 <- lm(job.df$salary ~job.df$satis+job.df$work_yrs+job.df$frstlang, data = job.df)
summary(fit1)##
## Call:
## lm(formula = job.df$salary ~ job.df$satis + job.df$work_yrs +
## job.df$frstlang, data = job.df)
##
## Residuals:
## Min 1Q Median 3Q Max
## -31764 -9640 -604 4816 76193
##
## Coefficients:
## Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
## (Intercept) 90600.7 13050.3 6.942 4.07e-10 ***
## job.df$satis -1913.1 2000.0 -0.957 0.3411
## job.df$work_yrs 2506.8 528.6 4.742 7.11e-06 ***
## job.df$frstlang 13541.5 6305.7 2.147 0.0342 *
## ---
## Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
##
## Residual standard error: 15740 on 99 degrees of freedom
## Multiple R-squared: 0.2466, Adjusted R-squared: 0.2237
## F-statistic: 10.8 on 3 and 99 DF, p-value: 3.354e-06work_yrs and frstlang are significant variables in model 2 The multiple R squared value indicates that the model accounts for 24.66% of the variance in the variables The residual error(15740) can be thought of as the average error in predicting salary using work experience, job satisfaction and first language.
Model 3
fit2 <- lm(job.df$salary ~job.df$age+job.df$sex, data = job.df)
summary(fit2)##
## Call:
## lm(formula = job.df$salary ~ job.df$age + job.df$sex, data = job.df)
##
## Residuals:
## Min 1Q Median 3Q Max
## -29047 -9444 -1750 5428 84503
##
## Coefficients:
## Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
## (Intercept) 36859.8 14123.5 2.610 0.0105 *
## job.df$age 2653.1 475.1 5.584 2.03e-07 ***
## job.df$sex -3743.6 3372.6 -1.110 0.2697
## ---
## Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
##
## Residual standard error: 15540 on 100 degrees of freedom
## Multiple R-squared: 0.2588, Adjusted R-squared: 0.244
## F-statistic: 17.46 on 2 and 100 DF, p-value: 3.144e-07Age is a significant factor in model 3
We see that model 2 is better than model 1 and model 3, with a higher R-squared value.