The Institute of Directors says firms would shoulder the burden as graduates expect higher salaries to compensate for what would lose through taxation.

BBC: Graduate tax 'could hit UK's competitiveness'

But the investment bankers still expect City-scale salaries and bonus structures.

ECONOMIST: Dresdner Bank and Allianz

By a margin of nearly two to one, Americans expect their children's jobs, salaries and benefits to be worse than their own.

ECONOMIST: Lexington

To keep you from breaking into your neighbor's home to take a peek at his or her checkbook, we've put together a list of occupations and the salaries that just might surprise you because they don't earn as much as you'd expect.

CNN: Five low salaries that might surprise you