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Jul 23 2009

Georgetown grads have 19th highest mid-career salary

Posted by: Juliana Brint in News, Vox Populi, tags: , ,

PayScale.com recently released the results of their survey of which college’s graduates earn the highest median starting and mid-career salaries, and Georgetown’s not doing too bad.  We have the 34th highest median starting salary and the 19th highest mid-career salary (defined as at least 10 years into their career or field).

Georgetown’s showing is particularly impressive given a couple quirks about the survey.  First of all, it only takes into account graduates whose highest degree is a bachelor’s, eliminating doctors, lawyers, et cetra.  Also, Georgetown only offers degrees in three of the 10 top-paying majors.

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3 Responses to “Georgetown grads have 19th highest mid-career salary”
  1. Anon says: July 23rd, 2009 at 10:13 am

    This sort of data is always inaccurate and skewed upward because salary is self-reported and those earning higher than the average are more inclined to report that figure.

  2. Molly Redden says: July 23rd, 2009 at 3:38 pm

    In that case, I’m encouraged to see that Georgetown has so many high-earning, self-reporting graduates out there skewing the numbers.

    I don’t see “English major” anywhere on PayScale’s list…

  3. Liam says: July 24th, 2009 at 10:46 am

    We have too many people go into government and public service to ever look that impressive on this list. The ol’ Hill staffer isn’t making nearly what the worthless mid-level bank manager is.

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