Big city starting salary for non-STEM majors?
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Anonymous
| What are kids earning straight out of college in Boston/NY? |
Anonymous
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Northeastern publishes by college here:
https://careeroutcomes.northeastern.edu/salaries/ Boston Univ: https://careers.bu.edu/channels/post-graduation-outcomes/ NYU: https://www.nyu.edu/students/student-information-and-resources/career-development-and-jobs/about-us/career-outcomes-surveys.html |
Anonymous
| 75k ballpark. A bit higher for analyst roles requiring more quant knowledge and a bit lower for roles that lean more administrative. |
Anonymous
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People on here talk about how much their FAANG kids are making. However, my friend is paying for her FAANG CS major daughter's first studio apartment rent in Manhattan for a year. Then her daughter is supposed to find roomies.
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Anonymous
I would plan for $30,000 or $40,000. I think the days of typical 22-year-old hires getting $75,000 per year are mostly gone. |
Anonymous
Agree with this. kids are taking what they can get. |
Anonymous
| It still varies by the specific degree. Quants will usually be paid more than an education degree. |
Anonymous
| A friend's daughter has multiple NYC offers for 50,000 which she can't afford to take due to the cost of living. |
Anonymous
| At my company about $50k but we are not hiring junior people now |
Anonymous
My nephew works at a FAANG company in an AI-specific CS role. Started at $135k for a 100% remote job out of college. |
Anonymous
| My kid is graduated with a business degree from Northeastern later this month. He's got a consulting job lined up in Boston which will pay him approximately $85K. That doesn't go that far in Boston, where he is expecting to pay $1700-$1900 per month for rent (per person in a three bedroom apartment with three people), but its really pretty good. Its more than I made coming out of law school, many decades ago! |
Anonymous
| Kid got offers ranging from 60-75K |
Anonymous
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The average starting salaries at DC's ivy and their friend's ivy+ are over 100k for Engineering/CS and over 85k for arts and sciences. 2025 data. The job market favors top schools.
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Anonymous
completely false |
Anonymous
Students from top schools also go to the highest HCOL job markets. I do not have fond memories of studio rent in DC in 1991 or my DH (then boyfriend) auditioning to be accepted as a roommate so he could overpay for a bedroom in a group house. One of those ratty houses was recently gutted and sold for $1M+. I lived in a one room studio for 7 years which is how I had no problem skipping a move-up to a 4 BR when I finally entered the homeownership phase of life. The extra money mainly fuels a difficult to afford property cycle. |