education & pay

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Jul 28 16:46:09 PDT 2000


More stinking averages...

<http://www.bls.gov/emptab7.htm>

Unemployment and earnings for year-round, full-time workers age 25 and over, by educational attainment

unemployment median

rate, earnings,

1998 1997

1.3 Professional degree 72,700

1.4 Doctorate 62,400

1.6 Master's degree 50,000

1.9 Bachelor's degree 40,100

2.5 Associate degree 31,700

3.2 Some college, no degree 30,400

4.0 High-school graduate 26,000

7.1 Less than a high-school diploma 19,700

Source: Unemployment rate: Bureau of labor Statistics, unpublished data; earnings, Bureau of the Census, unpublished data.



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