| Best Undergrad College Degrees By Salary | Starting Median Pay | Mid-Career Median Pay |
| Petroleum Engineering | $93,000 | $157,000 |
| Aerospace Engineering | $59,400 | $108,000 |
| Chemical Engineering | $64,800 | $108,000 |
| Electrical Engineering | $60,800 | $104,000 |
| Nuclear Engineering | $63,900 | $104,000 |
| Applied Mathematics | $56,400 | $101,000 |
| Biomedical Engineering | $54,800 | $101,000 |
| Physics | $50,700 | $99,600 |
| Computer Engineering | $61,200 | $99,500 |
| Education | $35,100 | $54,900 |
| Art | $33,500 | $54,800 |
| Special Education | $36,000 | $53,800 |
| Recreation & Leisure Studies | $33,300 | $53,200 |
| Horticulture | $35,000 | $50,800 |
| Culinary Arts | $35,900 | $50,600 |
| Athletic Training | $32,800 | $45,700 |
| Social Work | $31,800 | $44,900 |
| Elementary Education | $31,600 | $44,400 |
| Child and Family Studies | $29,500 | $38,400 |
Monday, July 11, 2011
Income And Wealth Are Markers Of Behavior
It makes a difference which skills you develop.
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Just to pick at nits, these numbers probably don't reflect people not
working in their field. When I was in high school I knew a ChemE student with pretty poor job prospects. Just because you have an advanced degree doesn't mean it will pay off for you.
Overall for your series, I'm sympathetic to the argument that the people making the big bucks/stable lives are naturally inclined to those habits. Granting degrees can't fix someone who's not willing to do the work.
(hotgl. Captchas are getting weird)
Clearly I'm grossly underpaid. Where are these statistics from? Are they current?
Click on the link above the table. If they're not current, then at least the trend and the scaling is in line with what I've seen before. As for your pay, well, it's a dog's life.
;-)
Woof!
Ya, but I'm supposed to be an overpaid uncivil servant. They're falling down on the overpaid part.
"It makes a difference which skills you develop". No kidding.
The median of the major league baseball team median salaries (see <a href="http://content.usatoday.com/sportsdata/baseball/mlb/salaries/team>the data here</a>) is about $1,200,000. Kinda crushes us Chemists ($42,400 and $83,700 which you did not include in your table).
Ahhh, fooey... HTML error above, sorry about that.
Interesting that the mid-career incomes are in the same rank as starting. I would have figured that some of these professions would have increased in pay faster than others.
Ohioan, here's the link for you.
Good point, Brad. I hadn't noticed that. To make the post shorter, I cut out lots of rows. I wonder if the whole table looks like that.
Ohioan:
Before you start feeling too bad about it, I think if you are going to compare "chemists" to "ballplayers" you need to throw in the minor-league ballplayers, too. Who get paid a lot less.
(not to mention the number of wannabe-but-never-made-it ballplayers as compared to the number of unemployed chemists)
In a parents' pre-season meeting in one of my son's baseball leagues, we were told to get over our delusions that our boys were going to be major league players. There was a greater chance they would grow up to become brain surgeons than baseball players.
:-)
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