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?

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

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.

Starting salary is not what college grads optimize for.

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

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.

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 wrote:$120k in DMV

Ha, no

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

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

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

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 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?

$120k in DMV

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