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My only criticism is that this table does not break it down by how far you are in your career. Are these entry-level salaries, mid-career salaries, or what? I'm guessing these stats represent a mix of people from different points in their respective careers.
My only criticism is that this table does not break it down by how far you are in your career. Are these entry-level salaries, mid-career salaries, or what? I'm guessing these stats represent a mix of people from different points in their respective careers.
Everybody was considered, but I guess you can say many of the 25th are entry level positions and many of of 75th have been doing it for a long time. Some have 0.0% unemployment listed, though. I'm guessing for that, they didn't consider recent graduates. But even then, 0.0% is still a weird number. You would think at least SOME unemployment is there. Especially right now. And this was supposedly from 2010. But thanks for this website. Interesting.
That is very interesting. Those with counseling psychology degrees have a much lower unemployment rate than those with clinical psychology degrees. People with general psychology degrees are paid more than clinical, educational, and counseling psychology majors. But are these for undergraduate degrees? Clinical and counseling psychologists need PhDs and counselors need master's degrees.
History, international relations, and political science majors don't do as bad as people say they do.
My only criticism is that this table does not break it down by how far you are in your career. Are these entry-level salaries, mid-career salaries, or what? I'm guessing these stats represent a mix of people from different points in their respective careers.
My area of study is listed as 10.5% unemployment, yet I do not know anyone (and I know about 50-60 people with the same degree) that is unemployed. The salary data also appears to be way off. I know someone with no work experience who just got a job making above the 75% in my field and they are living in Richmond, VA, so it is not like they are in NYC, LA, Boston, etc. I am interning while i finish up my degree and my pay is apparently near the median for the field....and I live in a very low cost of living city.
I'd be very interested in where they got this data from.
Edit: Found the data. Those are for bachelor's degrees. No wonder that degree has a 10.4% Unemployment Rate, you need at least a masters degree to get hired by almost anyone.
Did not even know you could get a bachelor's in Clinical Psychology, but apparently 10,762 people do per year and 17,000+ get one in I/O...never heard of it.
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I only skimmed it. It would be interesting to see what careers manifested via these majors.
Yes, considering how many people end up in different fields than their specific major. I'm in that group. Payscale.com has some relatively good data on which career fields different types of majors go into.
Yes, considering how many people end up in different fields than their specific major. I'm in that group. Payscale.com has some relatively good data on which career fields different types of majors go into.
Yea, in pharma it seems a person can have a degree in just about anything science related. My boss has a marine science background.
Everybody was considered, but I guess you can say many of the 25th are entry level positions and many of of 75th have been doing it for a long time. Some have 0.0% unemployment listed, though. I'm guessing for that, they didn't consider recent graduates. But even then, 0.0% is still a weird number. You would think at least SOME unemployment is there. Especially right now. And this was supposedly from 2010. But thanks for this website. Interesting.
One of those 0% majors is Actuarial Science--they really are "fully employed", even recent college grads.
Is civil engineering really at 4.9% despite the construction bust?
Civil engineers can also work in geotechnical engineering, transportation, environmental, and infrastructure rehab, among others.
And we were pretty understaffed during the boom so it didn't hurt us as much as you would think in terms of employment.
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You would think at least SOME unemployment is there. Especially right now. And this was supposedly from 2010. But thanks for this website. Interesting.
