Education & Employment

These indicators examine earnings by educational attainment and the relationship between educational attainment and employment.

Earnings by Degree Attained

Distribution of Population by Education and Income: 2004

Forty-four percent of U.S. adults whose highest educational attainment was at the lower secondary level or below earned at or below half of the median income of U.S. adults. The U.S. percentage was higher than the corresponding percentages in all of the other G-8 countries.

Employment

Employment Rates: 2004

In all of the G-8 countries, males who had completed lower secondary education or below, upper secondary education/postsecondary vocational training, or academic higher education had higher employment rates than did females with a comparable amount of education.

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