Gender Studies
translation: We think the Government should use it’s big stick to FORCE society to value this more and raise salaries.
I think quite a few of those degrees are earned by people who, going in, knew the rewards would not be financial.
Trick is to get the degree without going into student loan debt.
Peace studies, Philosophy and English
Two days and $695 invested would probably earn you more than any of these majors.
http://www.tomhopkins.com/salesacademy-Orlando-FL-2015.shtml
One of my daughters has a BS degree in “family studies” from a well-known public university. She has never been unemployed, worked in a variety of public and private social agency situations and in several allied activities such as public relations, fund raising, case management, counseling, nutrition etc. Her pay has been about that of a public school teacher, but probably more rewarding these days.
One of my daughters has a BS degree in “family studies” from a well-known public university. She has never been unemployed, worked in a variety of public and private social agency situations and in several allied activities such as public relations, fund raising, case management, counseling, nutrition etc. Her pay has been about that of a public school teacher, but probably more rewarding these days.
That worthless site isn’t working for me today, probably because I refuse to let it deliver an ad to my screen.
That said, I’m guessing my engineering major isn’t on the list.
In my first “real” job, I was a polysci major working with a sociology major and a humanities major. My boss was a psychology PhD. My peers with philosophy and psychology degrees got similar work. We were all in IT, and did just fine with our “soft” science degrees.
Very surprising that health and medical professions would be on this list.
I think a list of degrees that don’t lead directly to any job would be more useful. I would guess that most people going into most of these careers know the pay is pretty dismal; the people I know who have them are more service oriented than money oriented.
That said, just about any bachelor’s degree can help you get various office jobs or at least get your foot in the door to something. My sister has a bachelor’s in Music, which got her the office job that eventually lead to an IT job she loves. The problem with most people with “worthless degrees” is that they want a job in their major, which is never going to happen.
That's according to Payscale, the creator of the world's largest compensation database with more than 40 million salary profiles. It recently looked at the difference between starting (less than five years of experience) and mid-career (10 or more years of experience) pay by college major, and determined the 13 majors with the smallest salary growth. "We're not trying to discourage students from pursuing these majors — we're simply offering information so that students can make informed choices and get the most out of their degree, whatever major they choose," says Kayla Hill, a research analyst at Payscale.
Looks like an interesting resource. PFL.
Pick a town like Newton or Wellesley MA or Greenwich CT and, eventually, an elementary school teacher with an (easy) MA will earn $90-$100K
You can always be a paralegal in a big city firm and make 100k+.
I pretty much guessed 11 of the 13 without reading the article.
“Undervalued by Society” — really means has a lower value to society. “Undervalued” is simply the author’s personal opinion about the value, while the actual salary is a decent reflection of the true value of work to society.
Now, why should someone who does a job expect salary increases at all? If they get “better” at the job, and being “better” translates into being more productive at the job, then they might be worth more money.
Sometimes, a company might pay a worker more if they have stayed at the job, simply because there is some value in loyalty, relative to having to worry about training a new worker.
But beyond that, we are much to expecting of getting paid more just for aging another year. Unions do that, which is why so many companies driven by unions falter. Because really — is there any advantage to having the welds on your car done by a guy who worked 30 years, rather than a girl who did it 5 years? After a few months you are adequate for the task — it isn’t an art, really — and you can’t charge more for a car by saying “it was welded by people with 30 years of experience”.
In fact, this seniority pay is the number one cause of the REAL women’s pay gap. Because women were late entering the work force, they have fewer years, and even though they have the SAME skills and are doing the SAME job as men, they get paid less because the union REQUIRES it.
If you look at fields where pay doesn’t go up much, it is mostly fields where it would be easy to bring in a brand-new worker, and get them up to speed quickly. How hard is it to train someone to throw trash in the back of a truck?