Introduction: completing the studies of a professional career does not certify that the graduate obtains a job, to which it is added that the economic contraction has had a significant impact on the income level of recent graduates from different universities. Despite this, in Peru, there is not enough research to explain it. Objective: to study was to identify the relationship that exists between academic performance and remuneration of graduates of Administration from public universities in Peru. Materials and methods: it was a retrospective, descriptive and correlational study with a nonexperimental, cross-sectional design. The data for the statistical analysis correspond to a sample of graduates from 2011 to 2016. From a population of 248, the sample of 129 graduates was used. Academic performance was measured through the average of grades, recorded in the final minutes of the Siga-web UNASAM. The hypothesis was statistically corroborated using the SPSS version 25 program using Pearson’s correlation. The remuneration through the documentary analysis technique with the data record sheet, based on the pay slips of the graduates of September 2017. Results: to show that, between the academic performance and the remuneration of the graduates of the career Management professional there is a positive relationship. Conclusions: there is a direct relationship between academic performance and the remuneration of Administration graduates with a confidence level of 95%.