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Dealing With Debt: 1992-93 Bachelor's Degree Recipients 10 Years LaterNCES 2006-156, June 2006
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Table 9. Among 1992–93 bachelor’s degree recipients who had no additional degree enrollment and were repaying undergraduate loans, average monthly payment amount and percentage distribution of monthly payments, by amount borrowed and salary: 2003
      Amount of monthly payment
Amount borrowed and salary Average
payment
amount
Median
payment
amount
Less than
$100
 $100–
149
 $150–
199
 $200–
249
$250
or more

     Total $150 $130 27.4 30.4 17.2 13.9 11.1
               
Amount borrowed (undergraduate)              
  Less than $5,000 100 60 69.8 14.0 2.7 4.6 8.8
  $5,000–9,999 100 100 52.4 28.0 12.2 4.2 3.3
  $10,000–14,999 140 130 20.2 44.2 19.7 10.9 5.1
  $15,000 or more 200 180 11.3 22.7 20.5 24.0 21.6
               
Salary in 2003              
  Lowest 130 120 33.7 31.8 13.4 13.3 7.8
  Low middle 160 150 24.4 21.3 19.4 25.3 9.6
  High middle 160 140 29.4 31.1 20.2 4.9 14.3
  Highest 150 120 20.0 41.4 15.5 10.6 12.5

NOTE: Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding. Estimates include students from the 50 states, DC, and Puerto Rico.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, 1993/03 Baccalaureate and Beyond Longitudinal Study (B&B:93/03).

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