Most Lucrative College Degrees '04

[chequita guevara]

Is that Canadian or real dollars?

[Asher]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
Is that Canadian or real dollars?

The salary figures in the first post? US dollars.

[Zylka]

Originally posted by Asher

The Globe and Mail say Roughnecks are making CDN$20/hr...

http://www.globeandmail.com/series/hitchhike/0829.html

That's the base minimum a place like Precision (who treat most they don't know like a number) make

Realistic when you're getting an in; which is how median employment operates - is closer to a month or two lasting 29$, plus HUGE overtime when working 12+ hour shifts.

But since you're so set on telling the world that you're "on top" of the game with a wink at the end - I'll drop it. Just remember - even your average scumbag crack dealer makes a grand a day. Industry reality of all forms mean it doesn't always last; so rather brag when it does

[Asher]

Seeing as I wouldn't make a living doing anything illegal or risking a limb or working insane hours in dirty places with a bunch of rednecks, I think I'm good.

[MrFun]

Bah -- live on the edge, Asher!!!!!!!

[Zylka]

OH WELL AREN'T WE JUST PEACHY THEN

[rah]

Originally posted by Asher

I also disagree with the statement that they "rarely" rise to the extremes, virtually all of my friends have parents "technical" degrees and they make very, very good money.

I have to agree with him on this one since I'm one of those examples.

[Asher]

Originally posted by rah
I have to agree with him on this one since I'm one of those examples.

You being one of the examples does not make it the case that only "rarely" do people with technical degrees make very good money near the top.

[GePap]

You know Asher, it is nice to see you know a bunch of people in the oil industry- a few caveats:

most people in the world, canada or the US or anywhere else, don;t happen to work in the oil industry, or other similar industries. they are hardly ever indicative of anything that can be termed as average.

Most people with technical degree will end up working for serivce industries, NOT companies dragging out the mineral wealth of the world. Or do you disgagree with this premise?

To continue- in most service sector jobs, the big money is in management, and there is a huge pool of people in non-technical fields in such campanies that in general move up faster than tech people, if only becuase tech are more necessary where they are then these other workers.

Even Zylka pointed out that yearly salary is not perhaps the best amount to use: for example, in NYC there are sanitation workers who, with overtime, make well over 60k a year their first year, no degree necessary.

So again, if the issue is which degrees lead to the greatest financial success (as opposed to, perhaps, financial security)-that chart you provided is a lousy one to use.

[Zylka]

With architecture hovering somewhere around entrance of 6,400 Pesos annually - I wonder where my secondary of Advertising would be included. Ming?

[Asher]

Originally posted by GePap
most people in the world, canada or the US or anywhere else, don;t happen to work in the oil industry, or other similar industries. they are hardly ever indicative of anything that can be termed as average.

How is how an oil company chooses management any different from how, say, a technological company chooses management? You choose the more qualified people with relevant experience in what they're managing. You don't hire an economics graduate to manage a bunch of software engineers, for example. You don't hire an economics graduate to manage a bunch of civil engineers, either. Some do, I'm sure, but I'm also sure that's not a good idea.

When you look at most full-out technology companies, their managers mostly have technical degrees -- not business, marketing, economics, english, history, whatever...

So again, if the issue is which degrees lead to the greatest financial success (as opposed to, perhaps, financial security)-that chart you provided is a lousy one to use.

By the same token, you have provided nothing at all to disprove that starting salaries have a formidable effect on somebody's wealth.

[Zylka]

Originally posted by Asher

By the same token, you have provided nothing at all to disprove that starting salaries have a formidable effect on somebody's wealth.

It indeed does - but not to the self assured degree you'd like to convey. We're number 1!

[Asher]

Here's some more statistics. Warning: Canadian dollars for a Canadian job market.

Economics:
Average Salary: 2 years after grad: $31,600 5 years: $41,100
Unemployment rate: 2 years: 16% 5 years: 7%

Computer Science:
Average salary: 2 years after grad: $40,050 5 years: $46,100
Unemployment rate: 2 years: 5% 5 years: 4%

[Asher]

Originally posted by monolith94
Yes! Liberal arts is UP!

Amusingly, at about the same rate as inflation.

[Shi Huangdi]

Nice to see econ staying above the 40 K/ year threshold.

I would note that perhaps some of the non-technical degree may be skewed low here. Many of them work for the government, which while it does not pay as well does offer numberous other benefits, such as good health care/ pension system.