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Man, maybe I just suck at negotiating salary, but that seems high to me.

EDIT: Although, is that including benefits?
 
Read this article this morning and was surprised by the graph showing each education-levels income.

College Grads May Be Stuck in Low-Skill Jobs - Yahoo! Finance

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Everything I've read before this showed HS grad at a much lower rate than this. I guess I'm just bummed that my wife makes less than a HS graduate and I, with a MS, make about the same as an associate degree. Do you think these are accurate?

I would agree from experience of looking what else is out there most jobs do not require a degree and ones that do don't pay near these levels at all. If I could find an" average" job at 71K I'd jump at it - a 35% increase yes please!
What do you do for a living? Don't need to be specific.
 
Man, maybe I just suck at negotiating salary, but that seems high to me.

EDIT: Although, is that including benefits?

Whenever you look at numbers like this you have to remember that they are averages for everyone, not just new grads. This is more the average of someone who is mid-career. So you might say this is what the average 40-something at these education levels make.

Plus this is the mean, not the median. And a high earner making a few million a year can skew the average up a lot more than people working part time making minimum wage can skew them down.
 
Those aren't correct at all. 71 k is about what the average chemical engineer makes out of college, which is considered the highest paying major. Although I guess 71 k is right out of college, and this graph isn't specific to first year grads
 
Read this article this morning and was surprised by the graph showing each education-levels income.

College Grads May Be Stuck in Low-Skill Jobs - Yahoo! Finance

066f9896-0e57-4494-a216-20b531c8aace_NA-BV627_SKILLS_G_20130325175406.jpg


Everything I've read before this showed HS grad at a much lower rate than this. I guess I'm just bummed that my wife makes less than a HS graduate and I, with a MS, make about the same as an associate degree. Do you think these are accurate?

I would agree from experience of looking what else is out there most jobs do not require a degree and ones that do don't pay near these levels at all. If I could find an" average" job at 71K I'd jump at it - a 35% increase yes please!
Midwest salaries and housing are lower than both coast. That that into account.
 
There are a lot of factors driving this phenomenon, and when you consider their effects, it's not a big surprise that the growth in earnings for those with college degrees has been declining for over a decade.
 
42 grand for a high school diploma??? No ******* chance. I have a bachelors and I don't make that.

I actually know a lot of people with high school diplomas that make more than 42k, and they all work in factories.
 
I assume this is a lifetime average, you should still have decades of salary increases to up your average.

Also Iowa is probably lower than the national average, due to lower cost of living.
 
Remember, for those of us in Iowa it usually about 15% on wage scale for some reason. I guess the cost of living maybe. Everyone I talk to that move instate is shocked at wages here compared to outlying and surrounding states.
 
I actually know a lot of people with high school diplomas that make more than 42k, and they all work in factories.

Me too. This is average of everyone at their respective level, not just entry level. Also, some people seem to believe you can't make good money without some sort of degree, which is wrong. The market is also saturated with degrees at this point so I would expect the advantage of having a degree to even out as some degree holders have to take jobs perhaps not requiring a degree or "below their degree level."
 
Remember, for those of us in Iowa it usually about 15% on wage scale for some reason. I guess the cost of living maybe. Everyone I talk to that move instate is shocked at wages here compared to outlying and surrounding states.

True. I saw a study somewhere that showed Des Moines has one of the highest ratio of salaries relative to cost of living in the country.
 

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