Saturday, October 30, 2010

How well paid are economics majors? Payscale.com survey has some answers

As recently reported by Joe Light (Engineering, Computer-Science Pay More Than Liberal Arts, Wall Street Journal, October 25, 2010),
Payscale.com has just come out with its 2010-11 College Salary report. The following chart is from the Degrees That Pay You Back tab.

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Annual pay for Bachelors graduates without higher degrees. Typical starting graduates have 2 years of experience; mid-career have 15 years. See full methodology for more.

Wow! Econ grads made the top ten!

And what sort of jobs do econ majors do? Check out the Popular Jobs By Major tab, which has the following chart:

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Jobs ranked by popularity among graduates. Annual pay for Bachelors graduates without higher degrees from all colleges. See full methodology for more.

Still not sure what major to choose?

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1 comment:

ryle said...

Choosing what major to take up in college is not easy because this is where our future depends. I still like to take economics because there are many jobs for economics majors.

3:54 AM, November 22, 2011

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