Posted on 12/03/2014 11:35:32 AM PST by SeekAndFind
When deciding what to study in college, it's important to consider the earning and growth potential for jobs associated with each major.
To help you figure that out, Payscale, the creator of the world's largest compensation database with more than 40 million salary profiles, looked at the difference between starting salary (less than five years of experience) and mid-career pay (10 or more years of experience) by college major to determine the 13 majors with the largest salary growth.
13. Business & Information Technology (IT)
Common jobs: Information Technology (IT) Manager, Systems Analyst, Systems Administrator
Starting median pay: $56,900
Mid-career median pay: $99,100
Difference: $42,200 / 74.2%
12. Computer Science (CS) & Engineering
Common jobs: Information Technology (IT) Architect, Software Developer, Programmer Analyst
Starting median pay: $66,700
Mid-career median pay: $112,600
Difference: $45,900 / 68.8%
11. Chemical Engineering
Common jobs: Chemical Engineer, Environmental Engineer, Process Engineer
Starting median pay: $69,600
Mid-career median pay: $116,700
Difference: $47,100 / 67.7%
10. Aviation Management
Common jobs: Aviation/Aerospace Program Manager, Corporate Jet Aircraft Pilot
Starting median pay: $48,100
Mid-career median pay: $90,000
Difference: $41,900 / 87.1%
9. Physics
Common jobs: Physicist, IT Data Scientist
Starting median pay: $57,200
Mid-career median pay: $105,100
Difference: $47,900 / 83.7%
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
#2 is Government?
Says all we need to know.
10. Aviation Management
:)
I gather you’re in the Aviation business...
Crappy pay and crappy hours in the beginning, to pretty much writing my own ticket, now.
The value of experience, but more importantly, constantly expanding my knowledge base. I kept myself valuable.
Now, when I can see retirement eventually coming, I’m grateful for the curiosity that kept me learning, when others didn’t.
You can always get a law degree, pass the bar, and take a dead end staff attorney job (not associate) and sweat out $150k. About 50 hours a week for 48 weeks, ten holidays and ten days off.
You have to live in or near a major city, though.
Government - yes, I’m gonna go into government and spend the rest of my life bilking John Q. Public while I diddle around some office somewhere as yet another supernumerary while I force him to pay for it.
Working for the mafia pays better - and it’s more honest, too.
Working in a whorehouse is more honest — and useful — than working for government.
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