<p>We're both 21 and will be living in NYC after graduation (next May). I got an offer making $65k as a financial analyst, possibly more depending on next year's bonuses. GF still hasn't found a job yet - she isn't planning on going to grad school anytime soon...she majored in Neuroscience...does anybody know what her salary would be? She's not premed and in terms of making a living she said something "with research". I'm not exactly sure what that entails.</p>
<p>We decided to get an apartment together (we all know NYC apts in a "low-crime area" are all over $1200/month).</p>
<p>I'm trying to plan stuff out and see if all this is possible with her. I don't want to end up having to pay her bills too. We both went to a top 5 college, if that's relevant at all.</p>
<p>her salary depends on the job she’s getting, which we don’t know, so…</p>
<p>neuroscience is basically a biology major + couple more specialized clases (or at least that’s how it is in my college). so she can apply for jobs in labs, hospitals, healthcare, science research facilities, work as a technician, etc…in science, only having a BA/BS is limiting, but most Bio/Neuro/Chem majors can get jobs around $40k-60k/year. Work experience makes a big difference, as does the industry you go into. </p>
<p>Science majors often go into non-science jobs. She can go into business, journalism, work in research/development in a firm, etc…there are a lot of jobs open outside of the science fields for science majors. Most employers don’t care about your major, they want smart and hardworking people. My mom is in Finance and says she hires lots of math/science majors over business majors for that reason. :)</p>
<p>you gave a very vague description of a job…research can mean a hundred things and you need a Masters/Phd to get the higher jobs in science. But I’m getting a BS in Chemistry and Neuroscience and this is what i’ve heard from talking to scientists, profs, people whose labs I worked in, grad students who have had jobs, etc</p>
<p>*Edit - a top 5 college can only help, although research experience is often more important for certain jobs. good luck to your gf :]</p>
<p>This is stupid. She could get anything from nothing to flipping burgers at McDonald’s to some fabulous job as a research assistant of some sort. I would also like to point out that graduates right now have only about a 50-50 chance of finding a job at all. How the hell are we supposed to know what your gf might make at some hypothetical job? For going to a top 5 school, you asked a pretty impossible question that you should know that absolutely no one can have an answer to. Sorry, but it was a wee bit of a ridiculous question.</p>
<p>Only 20% of the class of 2009 had a job upon graduation. Maybe numbers will be better for 2010 (and numbers are surely better for a top 5 school) but you are narrowing her job search parameters to 1 city and a job that she can get to with public transportation…</p>
<p>I would recommend you find a place for yourself. Let her find a job anywhere in the country for herself. If she ends up in NYC, you can live separately for a year, and then try to move in together if that’s what you want to do.</p>
<p>What if she finds an awesome job in DC? or Baltimore? or Philly? or Boston? Is she going to turn it down?</p>