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3 College Majors With Declining Starting Salaries - LevelUP - 04-09-2025
3 College Majors With Declining Starting Salaries
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/3-college-majors-declining-starting-130232195.html
Thoughts?
RE: 3 College Majors With Declining Starting Salaries - Tomas - 04-09-2025
I'd say CS shall belong to top 3 declining.
RE: 3 College Majors With Declining Starting Salaries - Heartstrings - 04-09-2025
I would also say starting salary in the $60,000's is pretty generous for social sciences field. When I started my career in the human services/counseling field in the early 2000s I was only paid $9.50 per hour. Here in Texas, I would say a starting salary is somewhere in the $30,000s now.
RE: 3 College Majors With Declining Starting Salaries - Charles Fout - 04-09-2025
(04-09-2025, 04:10 PM)LevelUP Wrote: 3 College Majors With Declining Starting Salaries
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/3-college-majors-declining-starting-130232195.html
Thoughts?
This brings me back to my constant refrain - One's network will have far greater effect on a starting salary if you even achieve a salary than the subject matter and provenance of a college degree.
RE: 3 College Majors With Declining Starting Salaries - Pats20 - 04-10-2025
I’d venture to say that factoring in inflation just about every job , degree has had declining salaries. Other than CEO.