Starting salaries by major
A 1995 survey of bachelor's degree candidates showed that only accounting, economics, and finance majors, among business and social science graduates, earned more than history majors. More recent surveys show that history majors are finding good jobs in education, financial firms and consulting companies. If you enjoy the study of history, consider a history major instead of a vocational course of study.
A recent NACE press release indicates that History majors received average offers of $30,344 in 2003. According to a detailed 2002 NACE report:
Consulting firms, one of the top employers of new college graduates, have helped push up the average offer to history graduates by 9.5 percent to $31,359. Although more than one-fifth of their offers came from educational institutions, which offered an average starting salary of $27,441, history grads got 14 percent of their offers from consulting firms—which offered $40,347 on average.
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| Economics/Finance | $40,630 | |
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This information is drawn from NACE press releases. The National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) is the leading source of information for human resources professionals who recruit and hire college graduates and for career services practitioners on college campuses who advise students and graduates in career planning and the job-search process