General question... Who makes more on average college graduates or high school graduates (skills, degrees)

[bakeranita]

I was recently looking through some of the post in the work and employment forum and came across this topic. http://www.city-data.com/forum/work-...ve-degree.html thanks for your input

[plmokn]

Who makes more on average college graduates or high school graduates

Most college graduates are high schools graduates too.

Limiting to College graduates vs high school graduates only, the answer is college graduates.

[bluedevilz]

You can find a few hundred thousand sites that would answer this question for you....

On average, the college graduate makes more than the high school graduate and it isn't even close...

College graduates earn 85% more than those with high school-only - The Business Journals

[curtisc83]

Generally speaking college grads make more.

[NDak15]

College graduates. That's the whole point of going to college.

[ThinkingElsewhere]

No doubt college graduates, even if they have general liberal arts degrees.

Maybe 20+ years ago you could land a good job with only a high school diploma. Not really the case today. Sure you have some multi-millionaire celebrities that made it big with a high school degree, but these people became successful because they have enormous talent and/or had the right connections to make them stars. Can't say the people I know with only a high school diploma have better jobs than people I know with a college degree.

[PrestigiousReputability]

Originally Posted by ThinkingElsewhere

No doubt college graduates, even if they have general liberal arts degrees.

Maybe 20+ years ago you could land a good job with only a high school diploma. Not really the case today. Sure you have some multi-millionaire celebrities that made it big with a high school degree, but these people became successful because they have enormous talent and/or had the right connections to make them stars. Can't say the people I know with only a high school diploma have better jobs than people I know with a college degree.

I definitely agree that college graduates do earn more on average.

I also believe that if you have the right connections then you can do pretty well with just a HS Diploma; I know a decent amount of people like this. Maybe this varies by region but here in the NYC region, this is the case. However, if you want to make high management then you would definitely need a degree in the vast majority of cases.

Connections>Experience>Education

[Gantlet]

On average according to City-Data users H.S grads make more...

[jobaba]

Originally Posted by Gantlet

On average according to City-Data users H.S grads make more...

From what I have seen, people who make much more than their amount of education would dictate LOVE to come on here and brag.

People with high school degrees and humanities majors love coming on here and telling people they make $ if they are successful.

The others, not so much.

[Caleb Longstreet]

Easy, those graduates who have marketable SKILLS tend to make more than those who don't. High School or otherwise.....awful lot of Lit majors out there working at Starbucks.....