Average annual salary of bachelor's degree recipients employed full-time 1 year after graduation, by field of study: 1976 to 1991

Table 381.

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                                    |                    |                    |                    |                   |  Average    |          |
                                    |Average salary\1\ of|Average salary\1\ of|Average salary\1\ of|  Average salary of|   salary    | Percent  | Percent
                                    |  1974-75 degree    |  1979-80 degree    |  1983-84 degree    |   of 1985-86      |of 1989-90   |change in |change in
                                    |    recipients      |    recipients      |    recipients      |degree recipients  |   degree    | constant | constant
           Field of study           | in February 1976   |   in May 1981      |   in June 1985     |  in June 1987     |  recipient  | dollars, | dollars,
                                    |____________________|____________________|____________________|___________________|in April 1991| 1976 to  | 1987 to
                                    | Current  |Constant | Current |Constant  | Current |Constant  | Current |Constant |_____________|   1991   |   1991
                                    | dollars  |  1991   | dollars |   1991   | dollars |   1991   | dollars |  1991   |   Current   |          |
                                    |          | dollars |         | dollars  |         | dollars  |         | dollars |   dollars   |          |
____________________________________|__________|_________|_________|__________|_________|__________|_________|_________|_____________|__________|__________
                 1                  |    2     |    3    |    4    |    5     |    6    |    7     |    8    |    9    |     10      |    11    |    12
____________________________________|__________|_________|_________|__________|_________|__________|_________|_________|_____________|__________|__________
  Total ............................|   $7,600 | $18,200 | $15,200 |  $22,800 | $17,700 |  $22,400 | $20,400 |  24,400 |     $23,600 |     29.7 |     -3.3
                                    |__________|_________|_________|__________|_________|__________|_________|_________|_____________|__________|__________
                                    |          |         |         |          |         |          |         |         |             |          |
Engineering ........................|   12,200 |  29,200 |  22,400 |   33,600 |  24,100 |   30,500 |  26,600 |  31,900 |      30,900 |      5.8 |     -3.1
Business and management ............|   10,200 |  24,400 |  16,300 |   24,400 |  18,700 |   23,700 |  21,100 |  25,300 |      24,700 |      1.2 |     -2.4
Health professions .................|    8,600 |  20,600 |  17,300 |   25,900 |  20,800 |   26,300 |  22,600 |  27,000 |      31,500 |     52.9 |     16.7
Education\2\ .......................|    6,300 |  15,100 |  11,500 |   17,200 |  13,800 |   17,500 |  15,800 |  18,900 |      19,100 |     26.5 |      1.1
Public affairs and social services .|      --- |     --- |  13,700 |   20,500 |  15,100 |   19,100 |  17,700 |  21,200 |      20,800 |      --- |     -1.9
Biological sciences ................|    6,500 |  15,600 |  14,500 |   21,700 |  15,100 |   19,100 |  16,400 |  19,600 |      21,100 |     35.3 |      7.7
Physical sciences, mathematics,     |          |         |         |          |         |          |         |         |             |          |
  and computer sciences ............|    7,000 |  16,800 |  16,300 |   24,400 |  17,500 |   22,200 |  22,500 |  27,000 |      27,200 |     61.9 |      0.7
Psychology .........................|      --- |     --- |  12,500 |   18,700 |  14,600 |   18,500 |  17,300 |  20,800 |      19,200 |      --- |     -7.7
Social sciences ....................|    6,700 |  16,000 |  14,000 |   21,000 |  15,800 |   20,000 |  20,300 |  24,400 |      22,200 |     38.8 |     -9.0
Humanities .........................|    5,800 |  13,900 |  12,600 |   18,900 |  14,000 |   17,700 |  16,200 |  19,400 |      19,100 |     37.4 |     -1.5
Communications .....................|      --- |     --- |     --- |      --- |  16,200 |   20,500 |     --- |     --- |         --- |      --- |      ---
Miscellaneous ......................|    6,800 |  16,300 |  15,100 |   22,600 |  18,600 |   23,500 |  17,600 |  21,100 |      20,800 |     27.6 |     -1.4
____________________________________|__________|_________|_________|__________|_________|__________|_________|_________|_____________|__________|__________

\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.

---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. (This table was prepared May 1993.)

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