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(26 KB) | Table 387. | Average annual salary of bachelor's degree recipients employed full-time 1 year after graduation, by field of study: 1976 to 2001 |
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| | | | | | | Average |Percent |Percent
|Average salary\1\|Average salary\1\|Average salary\1\| Average salary | Average salary|Average salary\1\| salary\1\ of | change | change
|of 1974-75 degree|of 1979-80 degree|of 1983-84 degree| of 1985-86 | of 1989-90 |of 1992-93 degree| 1999-2000 | in | in
| recipients | recipients | recipients |degree recipient|degree recipient| recipients | degree |constant|constant
Field of study | in February 1976| in May 1981 | in June 1985 | in June 1987 | in June 1991 | in April 1994 | recipients |dollars,|dollars,
|_________________|_________________|_________________|________________|________________|_________________| in |1976 to |1991 to
|Current| Constant|Current| Constant|Current| Constant|Current|Constant|Current|Constant|Current| Constant| 2001 | 2001 | 2001
|dollars| 2001 |dollars| 2001 |dollars| 2001 |dollars| 2001 |dollars| 2001 |dollars| 2001 | | |
| | dollars | | dollars | | dollars | |dollars | |dollars | | dollars | | |
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Total ........................| $7,600| $23,700|$15,200| $29,600|$17,700| $29,100|$20,400| $31,700|$23,600| $30,700|$24,200| $28,900|$35,400 (316)| 49.4| 15.3
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Engineering ....................| 12,200| 38,000| 22,400| 43,600| 24,100| 39,700| 26,600| 41,500| 30,900| 40,200| 30,900| 37,000| 47,900 (790)| 26.1| 19.2
Business and management ........| 10,200| 31,700| 16,300| 31,800| 18,700| 30,800| 21,100| 32,900| 24,700| 32,200| 27,100| 32,300| 41,000 (941)| 29.3| 27.3
Health professions .............| 8,600| 26,800| 17,300| 33,700| 20,800| 34,200| 22,600| 35,200| 31,500| 40,900| 31,300| 37,400| 39,400(1,090)| 47.0| -3.7
Education\2\ ...................| 6,300| 19,600| 11,500| 22,400| 13,800| 22,700| 15,800| 24,600| 19,100| 24,800| 19,300| 23,000| 27,600 (346)| 40.8| 11.3
Public affairs and social | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
services .....................| --- | --- | 13,700| 26,700| 15,100| 24,900| 17,700| 27,600| 20,800| 27,000| 22,000| 26,300| 30,400(1,055)| --- | 12.6
Biological sciences ............| 6,500| 20,200| 14,500| 28,300| 15,100| 24,900| 16,400| 25,500| 21,100| 27,400| 22,800| 27,200| 30,700 (978)| 52.0| 12.0
Mathematics and other sciences .| 7,000| 21,800| 16,300| 31,800| 17,500| 28,800| 22,500| 35,100| 27,200| 35,300| 25,400| 30,400| 42,800 (981)| 96.3| 21.2
Psychology .....................| --- | --- | 12,500| 24,400| 14,600| 24,000| 17,300| 27,000| 19,200| 24,900| 19,500| 23,300| 28,800 (906)| --- | 15.7
Social sciences ................| 6,700| 20,900| 14,000| 27,300| 15,800| 26,000| 20,300| 31,700| 22,200| 28,900| 22,100| 26,400| 33,900 (916)| 62.2| 17.3
History ........................| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | 21,000| 25,200| 30,000(1,053)| --- | ---
Humanities .....................| 5,800| 18,100| 12,600| 24,500| 14,000| 23,000| 16,200| 25,300| 19,100| 24,800| 21,300| 25,500| 30,100 (846)| 66.3| 21.4
Communications .................| --- | --- | --- | --- | 16,200| 26,700| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- (---) | --- | ---
Miscellaneous ..................| 6,800| 21,200| 15,100| 29,400| 18,600| 30,600| 17,600| 27,500| 20,800| 27,000| 21,600| 25,800| 32,800 (628)| 54.7| 21.5
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| ---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. Standard errors appear in parentheses. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, "Recent College Graduates" surveys, 1976 though 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 September 2003).
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