The Office for National Statistics (ONS) says 31% of graduates are overeducated for the job they are doing.
For those graduating before 1992, the number was only 22%, but this jumped to 34% for those graduating after 2007.
London had the highest proportion of overeducated workers in the UK, with about 25% overqualified for their job.
Graduates in arts and humanities were more likely to be under-using their education.
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