The lowest-paying college degrees can have a significant impact on lifetime earnings. While salary is only one factor when choosing a major, some fields consistently generate lower wages than othersmaking it more difficult to pay off those insane college loans they took out.
This visualization ranks America’s lowest paying college degrees based on median mid-career wages. The data comes from the New York Fed and highlights which majors have the lowest earning potential in 2024. Education majors account for many of the lowest paying college degrees in America. Early childhood education ranks last overall, with a median mid-career wage of $52k.
Fine arts and performing arts both rank among the lowest-paying majors, with median mid-career wages of $72k and $75k, respectively. Several health-related degrees also make the list. Health services, nutrition sciences, and treatment therapy all report median mid-career wages below $71k.
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Journeyman electricians, just starting out after school, where they a\get paid while learning, make $75k to $100k here in Washington State. Not that the jobs on that list are unimportant, certainly most are, but one must choose wisely a career path. Get paid to learn or go into massive debt. Hmmmm...
ReplyDeleteAlmost every one of them is funded through THEFT from taxpayers and government employment....so GOOD that they are low paying. Now add in the insane benefits packages government hands out on OUR DIME. Walter Williams looked at ACT, SAT, GPA, GRE numbers for ALL college majors, and EDUCATION MAJORS were second lowest to ONLY political science majors. So there you go...the least capable running our government and teaching the bulk of the children.
ReplyDeleteAnd the we ask ourselves why we have such an uneducated country...
ReplyDeleteWhy should be [paying educators a lot more if we want smart people to want to go into education. Otherwise we will get the people that had no choice but to get into education and Americans will continue to fall further and further behind.
I have an IT degree from the 80's. When I got laid off after fixing the Y2K bug as a fully certed Project Manager I was making about what my wife made with a Master's of Education in metro Atlanta. I couldn't find a job in IT but I found one in Satellite communications, my military job. I suddenly made 3 times the money but I was on the rode most of the time.
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