Cornell Average Salary Info by College (2006)

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<p>isnt the national avg about 40k?</p>

42

<p>Ya, Nat avg ~45k/yr (household income too, so not just one person) but keep in mind that includes people who have already advanced the corperate/fastfood ladder and no longer make entry lvl money; also non college grads. Dont know what avg college grad RIGHT out of school makes.</p>

43

<p>The Average starting salary of an Arts & Sciences Economics major was $48k in 2000. I have no idea what it was in 2006.</p>

<p>I think the majors that are dragging A&S down are the:</p>

<p>Sociology: 28k
Chemistry: 30k
Anthropology: 31k
English: 32k
History: 34k
Government: 37k</p>

<p>(don't ask me, but I'm really lost as to why ppl major in those fields paying 160k in debt)</p>

44

<p>Yay Genentech Process Engineer! Woo-hoo</p>

<p>61K for ChemE!!!!!</p>

<p>How come Engineers don't post here, are they too busy studying or what?</p>

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<p>Sociology: 28k
Chemistry: 30k
Anthropology: 31k
English: 32k
History: 34k
Government: 37k</p>

<p>why is chem so low?</p>

46

<p>cause its science ..</p>

47

<p>cause researchers get paid VERY LITTLE....my civil engineering buddy from MIT is now in New Mexico making 15/hr.</p>

<p>the only time when researchers, like chem majors, make tons of money is when they're the ones running the research, not the other way around.</p>

<p>the ONLY science that makes the most is computer science which is like 60k national average.</p>

48

<p>almost makes me wanna be premed</p>

49

<p>their starting is pretty low too</p>

50

<p>too many pre-med students nowadays....the salary's bound to go down</p>

51

<p>the # of doctors out each year is pretty constant though, more premed is more weed out =D</p>

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<p>Engineering starting salaries by major, from 1985-2005, raw and adjusted for inflation:
<a href="http://www.cs.cornell.edu/People/egs/cs150-fall06/salary-trends.xls%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.cs.cornell.edu/People/egs/cs150-fall06/salary-trends.xls&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

53

<p>^ Thanks for raining on my parade!</p>

54

<p>$15/hr isnt so bad in New Mexico...i'm sure it has a lower standard of living than NY does...</p>

55

<p>this thread will hit 2000 by the end of august.</p>

56

<p>Anyone know why more than 2/5th of the Engineers at Cornell go on to Grad school?</p>

57

<p>they dont need grad school so soon cause they can make 57k right out of college.</p>

58

<p>the question is, what are the salaries 20, 30 years later....</p>