Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Latest Salary Information by Major

Here's the latest data from PayScale.com on the salaries by major. In the ranking on their page, economics ranks 5th (out of 75, behind the engineering degrees). English (my brother's major) ranks 47th. The business degrees (international business and business administration) rank 28th and 35th.

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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.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Having worked with some engineers in the Oil and Gas space... I realized a bunch of them are door knobs to the n-th degree. Perhaps there is a negative correlation between financial reward and intelligence.