<p>This comes up now and again on this board, and I found some pertinent info, so I figured I would share. You can play with the data and manipulate it in various ways.</p>
<p>obviously "average" means thats some people make more, and some people make less. It does not mean "minimum guaranteed salary".</p>
<p>I wonder what jobs “philosophy” and “spanish” include.
And is this a yearly average for one person?</p>
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<p>As opposed to what? </p>
<p>Regardless, the figures are median salaries, rather than straight averages.</p>
<p>How does one become a Physicians Assistant (we don’t have that as a major)? That looks like the good money job.</p>
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<p>I remember something about average income for family - though it seems strange to make a survey of families where both parents work in the same field the same amount of time. I mean, of course it happens, but it’s a bit specific, isn’t it? Still, wanted to make sure since where I come from, that would definitely be an average income for a family…</p>
<p>Hurray for the $241,000 for Columbia and $198,000 for Fordham. Gives me hope. Even if it’s very minuscule 90th percentile hope.</p>
<p>Damn, I wish I had gone to Yale.</p>
<p>Lol, they have some of the school “types” listed as “party.”</p>
<p>This is more interesting…</p>
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<p>What the hell, why is Stanford not on there?</p>
<p>Props to Dmouth and Yale for the highest mid-career salaries.</p>
<p>wow, I have to be a monstrous communicator if I want to make some money.</p>
<p>Also, my future alma mater is $164K, while my parents’ alma mater is $209K (these are both 90th percentile, but all #s are higher) :mad:</p>
<p>One of my friends is an elementary school teacher and gets paid during the summer even though he doesn’t actually work during the summer.</p>
<p>Is that normal for teachers?</p>
<p>I bet she opted for her check to be spread out evenly throughout the year. It isn’t that she is getting paid for not working. Its that she received less money during the school year and that money is put towards a summer paycheck. Some teachers do that at my school.</p>
<p>I like how they deem Penn State a “party” school while East Carolina (ECU, which does on-campus admissions at my old high school, has its own unique strain of STD and is pretty much regarded as the place you go if you can’t get in anywhere else in NC) is a “state” school.</p>
<p>Also two of my concentrations aren’t even on that list. haha</p>
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<p>Ah, I see that makes much more sense.</p>
<p>having an economics degree pays more than accounting?
I should switch my major!</p>
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<p>Yeah, I found that a bit interesting.</p>