How much does an average 25 year old college graduate earns?

[Anonymous]

How much does an average 25 year old college graduate earns?

[Anonymous]

$120k in DMV

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:$120k in DMV

Seriously? Not in government, education, non-profits or associations, which are major employers here.

I guess yes to tech and finance and real estate development, but this is the high end.

We have a lot of hotel HQs in the DMV. What do Marriott and Choice pay grads with 3 or 4 years of experience?

[Anonymous]

Excluding investment banking and any person with a computer science degree who has a tech role, I would say $50k-$90k. Would depend on location.

[Anonymous]

I work in Energy. We hire MS (mostly engineers) degrees starting at 115k, no experience.

[Anonymous]

Using a demographic database I have at work (slow work day!), the average college graduate age 22-29 in the top 5 US cities earns a median income $70K or a mean of $80K

[Anonymous]

Kids just out of school from an elite college but not in engineering, CS, or IB and in the DMV make $70/80. This probably goes up 6%/year to age 30, or $120. Promotions, grad school, and hopping jobs could increase those figures

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:$120k in DMV

Ha, no

[Anonymous]

Yeah def not 120k unless yous re in tech or IB. Even consulting (at least here) you start closer to 80k. The median salary for example, of a Georgetown Graduate (per US News) is 70k. For GW this is 60k and for AU (which granted is a crap school) is 47k.

[Anonymous]

Dang I started at $19K with no benefits or health insurance when I started as a magna cum lauds grad from a top 20 college graduating into a recession in 1992.

[Anonymous]

Varies by location, and degree holder income varies a lot by age.

Nationally, 25-34 college grads earn median $65K/year

https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/cba/annual-earnings

[Anonymous]

Starting salary is not what college grads optimize for.

[Anonymous]

If you go straight to law school, 25 is old enough to have finished a T14 JD and earn $220,000 as a first year associate at a white shoe firm. These numbers are public information.

[Anonymous]

Nothing except my graduate student stipend, that went straight to daycare. My husband paid for all our other expenses.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you go straight to law school, 25 is old enough to have finished a T14 JD and earn $220,000 as a first year associate at a white shoe firm. These numbers are public information.

Yes, because clearly that is the experience of the average graduate. Are you being intentionally obtuse?