Starting salary or expected for your child

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid is a 2025 graduate from a top architecture school. He is making $75,000 at a firm living in a large but low cost of living city.

He is working a pretty standard 40 hour work week and loving his job.

Congratulations, it's more important to love your job and life than make a lot of $$$ and be miserable.

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Anonymous wrote:The median bachelor's at MIT was $105k. MIT probably has the highest starting salaries in the country. Hopefully this can ground everyone in reality. Most grads make significantly less than this across the country.

A NVCC associates degree gets a 2026 grad $90,000 to start at the Arlington County Police Department.

So?

School, degree, starting salary are wildly variable. I am not sure you even need a high school diploma for ICE.

ICE does not

[Anonymous]

The entry level job outlook for 2026 grads is getting worse. If new grads don’t have work experience or a networking foundation they are in trouble. Their starting salaries could be $0.00 or whatever Starbucks pays.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid is a 2025 graduate from a top architecture school. He is making $75,000 at a firm living in a large but low cost of living city.

He is working a pretty standard 40 hour work week and loving his job.

What school? What city?