Table 5a.Average hourly wages of Career and Technical Education (CTE) Concentrators compared to Non-Concentrators among 2003-04 public high school graduates, by degree or credential type (2012)

Education Longitudinal
Study of 2002 (ELS:2002)

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Table 5a. Average hourly wages of Career and Technical Education (CTE) Concentrators compared to Non-Concentrators among 2003-04 public high school graduates, by degree or credential type (2012)Average hourly wages of Career and Technical Education (CTE) Concentrators compared to Non-Concentrators among 2003-04 public high school graduates, by degree or credential type (2012)

Characteristics	Undergraduate certificate	Associate's degree	Bachelor's degree	Professional degree or certificate¹
	Postsecondary degree or credential type
Average hourly wage²	$15.23	$16.14	$18.87	$22.94

CTE Concentrator ³	$16.27	$15.90	$19.15	$22.26
Non-CTE Concentrator	$14.97	$16.18	$18.84	$23.03
¹ Professional degree or certificate includes the categories Master's degree, Post-master's certificate, and Doctoral degree from variable F3A13B. For more information, see the sample member questionnaire, available on the ELS website: http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/els2002/questionnaires.asp
² Standardized hourly wage, rounded to the nearest dollar, for current/most recent job, from the composite variable F3HOURWAGE.
³ A "CTE concentrator" is defined as a high school student who earned three or more credits in CTE courses in one specific topic area while in high school, as indicated on the student's high school transcript.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Education Longitudinal Study of 2002 (ELS:2002), Third Follow-up Restricted-use File.

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