Table 386. | Average annual salary of bachelor's degree recipients employed full-time 1 year after graduation, by field of study: 1976 to 1994 |
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ | | | | | | Average |Percent |Percent |Average salary\1\ |Average salary\1\|Average salary\1\| Average salary | Average salary | salary | change | change |of 1974-75 degree |of 1979-80 degree|of 1983-84 degree| of 1985-86 | of 1989-90 |of 1992-93 | in | in | recipients | recipients | recipients |degree recipients|degree recipients|degree re- |constant|constant Field of study |in February 1976 | in May 1981 | in June 1985 | in June 1987 | in June 1991 |cipients in|dollars,|dollars, |__________________|_________________|_________________|_________________|_________________|April 1994 |1976 to |1991 to |Current |Constant |Current |Constant|Current |Constant|Current |Constant|Current |Constant|___________| 1994 | 1994 |dollars | 1994 |dollars | 1994 |dollars | 1994 |dollars | 1994 |dollars | 1994 | Current | | | | dollars | |dollars | |dollars | |dollars | |dollars | dollars | | _________________________________|________|_________|________|________|________|________|________|________|________|________|___________|________|________ 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 _________________________________|________|_________|________|________|________|________|________|________|________|________|___________|________|________ Total .........................| $7,600 | $19,800 |$15,200 |$24,800 |$17,700 |$24,400 |$20,400 |$26,500 |$23,600 |$25,700 | $24,200 | 22.2 | -5.8 |________|_________|________|________|________|________|________|________|________|________|___________|________|________ | | | | | | | | | | | | | Engineering .....................| 12,200 | 31,800 | 22,400 | 36,500 | 24,100 | 33,200 | 26,600 | 34,700 | 30,900 | 33,600 | 30,900 | -2.8 | -8.0 Business and management .........| 10,200 | 26,600 | 16,300 | 26,600 | 18,700 | 25,800 | 21,100 | 27,500 | 24,700 | 26,900 | 27,100 | 1.9 | 0.7 Health professions ..............| 8,600 | 22,400 | 17,300 | 28,200 | 20,800 | 28,600 | 22,600 | 29,400 | 31,500 | 34,200 | 31,300 | 39.7 | -8.5 Education\2\ ....................| 6,300 | 16,400 | 11,500 | 18,700 | 13,800 | 19,000 | 15,800 | 20,600 | 19,100 | 20,800 | 19,300 | 17.7 | -7.2 Public affairs and social | | | | | | | | | | | | | services ......................| ---| ---| 13,700 | 22,300 | 15,100 | 20,800 | 17,700 | 23,100 | 20,800 | 22,600 | 22,700 | ---| 0.4 Biological sciences .............| 6,500 | 16,900 | 14,500 | 23,600 | 15,100 | 20,800 | 16,400 | 21,400 | 21,100 | 22,900 | 25,400 | 50.3 | 10.9 Mathematics and other sciences ..| 7,000 | 18,200 | 16,300 | 26,600 | 17,500 | 24,100 | 22,500 | 29,400 | 27,200 | 29,500 | 19,400 | 6.6 | -34.2 Psychology ......................| ---| ---| 12,500 | 20,400 | 14,600 | 20,100 | 17,300 | 22,600 | 19,200 | 20,800 | 22,100 | ---| 6.3 Social sciences .................| 6,700 | 17,500 | 14,000 | 22,800 | 15,800 | 21,800 | 20,300 | 26,500 | 22,200 | 24,200 | 21,300 | 21.7 | -12.0 History .........................| ---| ---| ---| ---| ---| ---| ---| ---| ---| ---| 21,000 | ---| --- Humanities ......................| 5,800 | 15,100 | 12,600 | 20,500 | 14,000 | 19,300 | 16,200 | 21,200 | 19,100 | 20,700 | 21,300 | 41.1 | 2.9 Communications\3\ ...............| ---| ---| ---| ---| 16,200 | 22,300 | ---| ---| ---| ---| ---| ---| --- Miscellaneous ...................| 6,800 | 17,700 | 15,100 | 24,600 | 18,600 | 25,600 | 17,600 | 23,000 | 20,800 | 22,600 | 21,600 | 22.0 | -4.4 _________________________________|________|_________|________|________|________|________|________|________|________|________|___________|________|________ |
\1\Reported salaries of full-time workers under $2,600 in 1976, $4,200 in 1981, and $5,000 in 1985 were excluded from the tabulations. \2\Most educators work 9- to 10-month contracts. \3\In 1994, data was not collected in Communications as a separate field of study. ---Data not available. NOTE.--Data exclude bachelor's recipients from U.S. Service Schools and graduates living at foreign addresses at the time of the survey. Constant dollar adjustments based on the Consumer Price Index. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, "Recent College Graduates" surveys and "Baccalaureate and Beyond Longitudinal Study, First Follow-up" survey. (This table was prepared July 1997).
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