20% of college grads willing to work for free

College graduates became more realistic [?ri??listik](現(xiàn)實)toward employment [im?pl?im?nt](就業(yè)) this year, and 20 percent of them would accept zero payment(零工資), a big jump [d??mp](上升) from last year's 1.2 percent, the Beijing Times(北京時報) reported Monday, citing a survey.

The 2010 college graduates employment pressure(就業(yè)壓力) survey [s??vei](調(diào)查)was conducted by the China Communist Youth League Beijing Committee(中國共青團北京委員會) and the Beijing Youth Stress Management Service Center(北京青少年壓力管理服務中心), collecting over 5,300 questionnaires [?kw?st??n??r, ?kwest???ne?].((統(tǒng)計或調(diào)查用的)問卷，征求意見表).
According to the survey results, salary expectations for junior college(大專), college, master's and doctorate [?d?kt?rit](博士的) graduates are 2,000, 2,500, 3,000-3,500 and 4,500-5,000 yuan, respectively [ris?pektivli](相應的).

Some 18.5 percent of junior college graduates and 20 percent of college graduates are willing to accept zero payment, the survey said. More than 10 percent of master's and doctorate respondents also said they would accept zero payment.

Many respondents(受訪者) said they would accept zero payment if the work can help them enhance [in?hɑ:ns](增強)their ability, accumulate [??kju:mjuleit](積累) experience, meet their own interests, or is conducive [k?n?dju:siv](有益的，有助的) to long-term development.

"The result indicates(反應出) that graduates are more realistic toward employment," said Xiong Hanzhong, head of the service center.

The results also showed that more graduates are willing to work in less-developed areas(欠發(fā)達地區(qū)) of the western regions(西部地區(qū)) and suburbs(城郊).