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| Table 387. | Average annual salary of bachelor's degree recipients employed full time 1 year after graduation, by field of study: Selected years, 1976 through 2001 |
| Average salary of degree recipients |
Field of study | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total | Engineering | Business and management | Health professions | Education1 | Public affairs and social services | Biological sciences | Mathematics and other sciences | Psychology | Social sciences | History | Humanities | Communications | Miscellaneous | |||||||||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | ||||||||||||||
| Current dollars | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1974–75 recipients—salary in February 19762 | $7,600 | (—) | $12,200 | (—) | $10,200 | (—) | $8,600 | (—) | $6,300 | (—) | — | (†) | $6,500 | (—) | $7,000 | (—) | — | (†) | $6,700 | (—) | — | (†) | $5,800 | (—) | — | (†) | $6,800 | (—) |
| 1979–80 recipients—salary in May 19812 | 15,200 | (—) | 22,400 | (—) | 16,300 | (—) | 17,300 | (—) | 11,500 | (—) | $13,700 | (—) | 14,500 | (—) | 16,300 | (—) | $12,500 | (—) | 14,000 | (—) | — | (†) | 12,600 | (—) | — | (†) | 15,100 | (—) |
| 1983–84 recipients—salary in June 19852 | 17,700 | (—) | 24,100 | (—) | 18,700 | (—) | 20,800 | (—) | 13,800 | (—) | 15,100 | (—) | 15,100 | (—) | 17,500 | (—) | 14,600 | (—) | 15,800 | (—) | — | (†) | 14,000 | (—) | $16,200 | (—) | 18,600 | (—) |
| 1985–86 recipients—salary in June 1987 | 20,400 | (—) | 26,600 | (—) | 21,100 | (—) | 22,600 | (—) | 15,800 | (—) | 17,700 | (—) | 16,400 | (—) | 22,500 | (—) | 17,300 | (—) | 20,300 | (—) | — | (†) | 16,200 | (—) | — | (†) | 17,600 | (—) |
| 1989–90 recipients—salary in June 1991 | 23,600 | (—) | 30,900 | (—) | 24,700 | (—) | 31,500 | (—) | 19,100 | (—) | 20,800 | (—) | 21,100 | (—) | 27,200 | (—) | 19,200 | (—) | 22,200 | (—) | — | (†) | 19,100 | (—) | — | (†) | 20,800 | (—) |
| 1992–93 recipients—salary in April 19942 | 24,200 | (—) | 30,900 | (—) | 27,100 | (—) | 31,300 | (—) | 19,300 | (—) | 22,000 | (—) | 22,800 | (—) | 25,400 | (—) | 19,500 | (—) | 22,100 | (—) | $21,000 | (—) | 21,300 | (—) | — | (†) | 21,600 | (—) |
| 1999–2000 recipients—salary in 20012 | 35,400 | (320) | 47,900 | (790) | 41,000 | (940) | 39,400 | (1,090) | 27,600 | (350) | 30,400 | (1,050) | 30,700 | (980) | 42,800 | (940) | 28,800 | (910) | 33,900 | (920) | 30,000 | (1,050) | 30,100 | (850) | — | (†) | 32,800 | (630) |
| Constant 2005 dollars | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1974–75 recipients—salary in February 19762 | $26,100 | (—) | $41,900 | (—) | $35,000 | (—) | $29,500 | (—) | $21,600 | (—) | — | (†) | $22,300 | (—) | $24,000 | (—) | — | (†) | $23,000 | (—) | — | (†) | $19,900 | (—) | — | (†) | $23,300 | (—) |
| 1979–80 recipients—salary in May 19812 | 32,700 | (—) | 48,100 | (—) | 35,000 | (—) | 37,200 | (—) | 24,700 | (—) | $29,400 | (—) | 31,200 | (—) | 35,000 | (—) | $26,900 | (—) | 30,100 | (—) | — | (†) | 27,100 | (—) | — | (†) | 32,400 | (—) |
| 1983–84 recipients—salary in June 19852 | 32,100 | (—) | 43,700 | (—) | 33,900 | (—) | 37,800 | (—) | 25,000 | (—) | 27,400 | (—) | 27,400 | (—) | 31,800 | (—) | 26,500 | (—) | 28,700 | (—) | — | (†) | 25,400 | (—) | $29,400 | (—) | 33,800 | (—) |
| 1985–86 recipients—salary in June 1987 | 35,100 | (—) | 45,700 | (—) | 36,300 | (—) | 38,900 | (—) | 27,200 | (—) | 30,400 | (—) | 28,200 | (—) | 38,700 | (—) | 29,700 | (—) | 34,900 | (—) | — | (†) | 27,900 | (—) | — | (†) | 30,300 | (—) |
| 1989–90 recipients—salary in June 1991 | 33,800 | (—) | 44,300 | (—) | 35,400 | (—) | 45,200 | (—) | 27,400 | (—) | 29,800 | (—) | 30,300 | (—) | 39,000 | (—) | 27,500 | (—) | 31,800 | (—) | — | (†) | 27,400 | (—) | — | (†) | 29,800 | (—) |
| 1992–93 recipients—salary in April 19942 | 31,900 | (—) | 40,700 | (—) | 35,700 | (—) | 41,200 | (—) | 25,400 | (—) | 29,000 | (—) | 30,000 | (—) | 33,500 | (—) | 25,700 | (—) | 29,100 | (—) | $27,700 | (—) | 28,100 | (—) | — | (†) | 28,500 | (—) |
| 1999–2000 recipients—salary in 20012 | 39,000 | (350) | 52,900 | (870) | 45,200 | (1,040) | 43,500 | (1,200) | 30,500 | (380) | 33,500 | (1,160) | 33,900 | (1,080) | 47,100 | (1,080) | 31,800 | (1,000) | 37,400 | (1,010) | 33,100 | (1,160) | 33,200 | (930) | — | (†) | 36,100 | (690) |
| Percent change, in constant 2005 dollars | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1976 to 2001 | 49.7 | (—) | 26.2 | (—) | 29.2 | (—) | 47.3 | (—) | 40.9 | (—) | — | (†) | 52.0 | (—) | 96.2 | (—) | — | (†) | 62.5 | (—) | — | (†) | 66.7 | (—) | — | (†) | 54.9 | (—) |
| 1991 to 2001 | 15.4 | (—) | 19.3 | (—) | 27.5 | (—) | -3.6 | (—) | 11.2 | (—) | 12.4 | (—) | 12.3 | (—) | 21.1 | (—) | 15.8 | (—) | 17.3 | (—) | — | (†) | 21.5 | (—) | — | (†) | 21.4 | (—) |
| —Not available. †Not applicable. 1 Most educators work 9- to 10-month contracts. 2 Reported salaries of full-time workers under $2,600 in 1976, $4,200 in 1981, $5,000 in 1985, and $1,000 in 1994 and 2001 were excluded from the tabulations. Also, those with salaries over $500,000 in 1994 and 2001 were excluded. NOTE: Data exclude bachelor's recipients from U.S. Service Schools, deceased graduates, and graduates living at foreign addresses at the time of the survey. Constant dollars based on the Consumer Price Index, prepared by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor. Standard errors appear in parentheses. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, "Recent College Graduates" surveys, 1976 through 1991; and 1993/94 and 2000/01 Baccalaureate and Beyond Longitudinal Study (B&B:93/94 and B&B:2000/01). (This table was prepared August 2006.) |
