After attaining your college degree, how much income can you expect?

Question

I just saw a statistics that ppl with high schol degree earn an average of $30,000/yr when ppl with bachelors degree earn $55,000/yr.

Does your college degree insure high income? Also, is this the final GPA that all matters? (high gpa = high paying starting job?)

Answer 1

How much you earn after graduation depends in large part on what your degree is in, and what job you get. Remember - those statistics are *averages* and I don't think those are starting salaries, either! In my first job after I graduated with my *master's* degree I earned $17,500 (that was 10 years ago, but still pretty lousy). I'm now a college professor and I'm still earning less than $55,000 a year! (However, I've had many students who now earn much more than I do.)

Your GPA will be a factor when you first graduate, but not later. After you've been in the real world for a few years, no one will care what your GPA was, or what you majored in or what school you went to (so long as you actually did get your bachelor's). Once you've been in the real world, all that matters is what you've accomplished *since* you graduated.

Answer 2

NO - a degree doesnt gaurentee ANYTHING! Studies show that MOST people with degrees make more money than MOST people without. There are always exceptions. Take Bill Gates - hes a college dropout and probably one of the wealthiest men alive. If you're good at life, you may not need college to get you by...but it does make your chances better.

A great GPA can help open doors, but really, its all in the interview. If you have amazing grades but you act like a crazy person,. no one will hire you. Basically, it all comes down to what you get out of college and your ambition level.

Answer 3

It depends on

1.) your chosen line of profession.
2.) the area or state you wish to work in
3.) the agency or organization you want to work for

There are many people with graduate degrees that make very little money.

Your college degree does not ensure a high income. Your degree may (or it may not) help you get in the door but it is what you do with the opportunity that gives you the raises.

GPA only matters in certain professions. In mine it does but that is not always the case.

This is not to dissuade you from getting your degree because it so important to get. That degree is something nobody can take away from you and it might give you the edge in your job hunt.

Answer 4

hi Stacey! at first an undergraduate degree is in no way thoroughly ineffective. you will possibly not have have been given all the abilities which you choose for employment in the sector which you're attempting to go into. As you probably did a communications degree you've got had a great array of majors to choose for between. It sound extremely unfair and unusual which you weren't allowed to do greater beneficial than one. are you able to boost your know-how via doing a post Graduate certificates focusing on the areas that weren't coated on your undergraduate examine? on the different hand, if there is extremely no desire of having access to employment in communications and social media advertising, then you definitely could think of roughly employing the undergraduate qualification as a springboard into yet another part of the two communications or as an help to a thoroughly different endeavour altogether. stable success!!!