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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

I was at 25k in 1999.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

I was at 25k in 1999.

Really? You were really underpaid in 1999.

The US Patent Office paid newly minted grads with BS degree GS-7 in 1990. GS-7 step 1 started around 26.2K in 1990.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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

BS they make $40 to $50,000

[Anonymous]

My DS recently graduated with a CS degree from GMU with a 3.95 GPA and he got hired by a cybersecurity company with a salary of 175K and 50K signing bonus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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

BS they make $40 to $50,000

I graduated from an elite college in 2002 and 40-50k was probably the typical starting salary for the top 50% of the graduating class who didn't go straight to grad school. IB made more (much!) but this was the range for consulting and analysts. My consulting job was 52k.

Given inflation and 20 years it makes sense that the equivalent today is 70-80 with the top 10-20% making even more in specialist niches.

Tech barely existed in 2002. Do remember a few going off to California but it was still seen as something the CS geeks did.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The 25 year olds at my firm are making about $100k. Econ and accounting and finance majors.

The 25yr. old I know makes 40K in the same field.

Him and his friends make about the same. Economics majors.

Do they work in a city or smaller towns? Smaller firms?

The salary variations on this thread are interesting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

I was at 25k in 1999.

Really? You were really underpaid in 1999.

The US Patent Office paid newly minted grads with BS degree GS-7 in 1990. GS-7 step 1 started around 26.2K in 1990.

I started with Treas in 1990 as a GS-7 and earned 20,195. DS is a meche and earned 77K out of college in a lowish COL area.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DS recently graduated with a CS degree from GMU with a 3.95 GPA and he got hired by a cybersecurity company with a salary of 175K and 50K signing bonus.

This is the correct answer

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DS recently graduated with a CS degree from GMU with a 3.95 GPA and he got hired by a cybersecurity company with a salary of 175K and 50K signing bonus.

This is the correct answer

A single anecdote about a CS grad is the answer to what an AVERAGE young college graduate earns?

Two posters on the 1st page shared actual data on the average, around $70k.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DS recently graduated with a CS degree from GMU with a 3.95 GPA and he got hired by a cybersecurity company with a salary of 175K and 50K signing bonus.

This is the correct answer

I'm guessing you don't understand what the word "average" means.