Posted on 07/29/2015 8:33:17 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Salary potential shouldn't be the sole thing that attracts you to a major in college — things like passion, interest, and aptitude should also be considered. But it's still nice to know which degrees pay off the fastest. (And we can't blame you for being drawn to those.)
PayScale, the creator of the world's largest compensation database, recently looked at the starting pay for millions of professionals and sorted the results by college major.
Here are the 22 majors with the highest starting salaries:
22. Business and Information Technology
Median starting pay: $56,900
Median mid-career pay: $99,100
% change from starting to mid-career: +74%
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21. Architectural Engineering
Median starting pay: $57,000
Median mid-career pay: $90,400
% change from starting to mid-career: +59%
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20. Physics
Median starting pay: $57,200
Median mid-career pay: $105,100
% change from starting to mid-career: +85
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19. Electrical Engineering Technology
Median starting pay: $58,900
Median mid-career pay: $88,200
% change from starting to mid-career: +50%
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
I’m guessing the series of grievance studies classes aren’t among them...
yet.
Until the gov’t opens special high paying jobs for them.
How much for womyns or ethnic studies?
Pick a discipline where you can get at least three times your age (preferably 4) and that has a growth path to maintain that throughout your career.
Otherwise, go to plumping school....rules aren’t hard.
1) sh!t flows downhill, and
2) don’t bite your fingernails.
My BIL barely finished HS but tutored under his father as a plumber. He’s a millionaire now
Well, they are looking to increase the salaries for those majors to $15 an hour.
Those majors also give extra credit for being able to ask, "Do you want fries with that?" in Spanish.
What they don’t tell you is that if you are an older student you’ll only find a job if you let them send your ass to the Middle East!
LOL, Spanish was a nice touch!
$15 per hour in any San Fransicko or Seattle’s Starbucks IF you can find a job.
Third rule of Plumbing:
3. Payday is on Friday.
If you own the company, payday is your bank balance.
Who would have thunk it, Engineering, making things and making things work.
Community Activism, and Political Science not on the list.
I wouldn’t count on Petroleum Engineering holding the top spot in a survey conducted today. It would still be good $$$ but less positions available.
The article is about getting started in the field, apprentices don’t own plumbing companies.
About the same as a spell checker.
I was an English major, and have had a more-or-less successful 40-year run as a physician.
The fraction of college "students", in all majors, who belong in college is probably 10%, or less. The chances that a graduate, in any major, will be successful has little to do with the major, and much to do with IQ (#1), ability to work and defer gratification (#2), personality (#3), and ambition (#4).
It is true, to a degree, that major is a surrogate for these things. It's believable that STEM majors have high IQs, and that education majors have low IQs. But, a high-IQ education major will wind up making $500K+ as a bureaucrat, and a low-IQ science major will wind up a 45-year old post-doc.
The whole thing is f***ed up, no doubt. But the idea that if you pick the "right major" that you have a ticket to riches is ridiculous.
That’s true, certainly.. my point is that it doesn’t take much to go your own way when you get the master license.
The main problem in doing this is to be willing and able to respond to those emergencies in the beginnings of the business yourself. Clogged sewer lines, busted pipes, busted water heaters, broken heaters in winter....
It’s taxing at first but gets easier as your company grows.
I don’t like these lists. They make money the top priority, and don’t tell the whole story. We had a Physicist here on FR. He was bright and successful, but went into software development, I believe. There wasn’t much future for him as a physicist.
Hot on left cold on right, sh!t runs downhill and payday is on Friday.
The fraction of college “students”, in all majors, who belong in college is probably 10%, or less. The chances that a graduate, in any major, will be successful has little to do with the major, and much to do with IQ (#1), ability to work and defer gratification (#2), personality (#3), and ambition (#4).
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All the articles I’ve read claim that deferring gratification and work ethic outrank IQ.
One word, “Plastics!”
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