If YOU HAVE A COLLEGE DEGREE WOULD YOU GET MORE SALARY THAN A PERSON WITH A HIGH SCHOOL DEGREE?

Answer 1

Yes.

Answer 2

It depends on the job, some jobs and employers do not even require that you have to read! But, if you want to have a "position" and advance in a job, then a college degree may be helpful. Certainly I think common sense should be considered too, but having the college degree says more about you than you just having a "degree"...It shows initiative, it shows that you had the ambition and the "chops" to make it in "a bigger pond".

I say if you can get the college degree, then go for it! If you can't and it's something that you really feel that you need, try looking into night or possibly internet classes from Universities that will allow a working person to achieve at their own pace. No, they may not want you to drag a two year degree into 4, but once you start getting credits, it all applies.

If you do not have the financial ability to get that college degree, consider night classes or home study that can eventually get you the degree. I have always heard that it's better to work smart than to have to work hard.

I have never been sorry that I went to college, and I had to work some pretty boring jobs, and hard work (nights) so I could struggle through classes during the day, (very little help from my family with finances). Now although I am ill I am still able to sit at a desk and be employed because of my degrees. If I had to do a more physically demanding job, I would be forced to accept disability.

If it doesn't help you in your young life, certainly you have to consider that you may not always be in terrific physical condition later in your life. You may still need to work. For me to go out and wait on tables in my condition would be impossible, but to sit on my butt at a desk in an office with AC, is something I can do. The degree can keep you employable even if you might become disabled physically.

Just an opinion and my own personal experience, I have worked in a lot of different jobs, but the jobs that have seemed the most interesting were the ones that required the degrees. If you really want to get a degree, there are programs and grants available according to your own personal situation.

Good luck with whatever you choose, but even if you choose to dig ditches or wash dishes, having the extra knowledge will give you something to really think about while you are working! Anything you learn is something that no one can take away from you, no thief can steal what you KNOW!

Answer 3

In today's economy, even a college degree alone is not enough. At the VERY least someone who graduates high school but doesn't go to a four-year college should get some kind of specialized training in a particular field either through a community college or a technical school (things like auto repair, electrical/cable stuff, beauty school, SOMETHING!) in order to have some kind of a fighting chance in the working world. A High school degree alone will barely qualify you to pump gas unless you have been trained in a particular skill as well.

IF you do go to a four year college (which you should!) DON'T make the mistake in thinking that is enough. Intensive internships in your field of study and/or a graduate degree of some sort are not just recommended, they are the norm these days. It is a competative world out there, my friend. The best thing you can do is arm yourself with the tools to give you a fighting chance. Knowledge is power (and money) - a solid education is just the starting point. Good luck.

Answer 4

That was traditionally the case. Now there are so many unemployed and under-employed that you can't be so sure. There's pathos here too, see "Facing Middle Age With No Degree, and No Wife" (linked below) in the NY Times of Aug. 6 (free registration required; article should be available online for another few days).

There are lots of reasons: people don't always study the subjects that employers find useful; some skills (sales, for example) are personality-related as much as knowledge-dependent.

That said, a college degree adds enough to quality of life, social stature, and -- over the population as a whole -- employability and salary expectation that I would always encourage any reasonably qualified student to try for it. Lots of young people, in today's hard times, are going to community colleges for two years, and if they do well transferring with a scholarship to a state university or private 4-year college for the last two.

Answer 5

Depending on the company that hires you and what the position is - it would be more than likely that you would command a higher salary with a college degree. However, if you work someplace where everyone is paid the same, such as the post office, data entry or customer service, you wouldn't be paid more initially although you might be able to work your way up eventually and having a degree definitely counts.

Answer 6

Well..it used to be a given..not anymore. Our country needs specialized workers and some of those skills are not found in college. And graduating from college will not be enough for you to jump into a high salary position. In both the real world and college you have to start at the bottom and work up over time to better skills and thus better pay.

Answer 7

It depends.

What a college degree does best is presents more opportunities, but otherwise it is no guarantee. Like anything else, it is what you do with your education.

If you have a doctorate and drive a cab, you're making about the same a High School dropout.

However that doctorate should allow you to interview for jobs that the High School dropout couldn't even consider.

Answer 8

You are more likely to get a higher salary if you have a college degree, but if you get lucky and successful you might earn more with just a high school degree. but your chances of getting a better salary is with a college degree.

Answer 9

Depends on the job. Factory workers without a university degree can make more than people with a degree.

My mom is a Personal Support Worker (just lower than a nurse) and has a college degree. My brother works at a factory and makes more than twice her without having a degree.

Answer 10

If you're working at a job that doesn't require a college degree, then no. Jobs as a store clerk, fast food employee, truck driver, etc. are jobs that don't require a degree. However, overall, college graduates are higher paid than non-degreed individuals, simply because the college degree qualifies them for skilled positions that pay more.

Answer 11

In professional fields, yes. In other words, if you have an engineering degree, you are going to make more as an engineer compared to the metal worker who builds the building with only a high school degree. In some fields (basic office work, burger flipping) you'll make roughly the same.