What's a Bachelor's Degree Worth? Typical Salaries for Bachelor's Degree Recipients, Class of 2015 Bachelor's Field Computer Science Aerospace Engineering

Physics Chemical Engineering Electrical Engineering

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Mathematics Mechanical Engineering Finance Civil Engineering Registered Nursing Accounting Business Admin/Mgmt Chemistry Psychology Biology

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 Starting Salary in Thousands Note: Typical salaries are the middle 50o/o, i.e. between the 25th and the 75th percentiles. Reprinted from the Spring 2016 Salary Suruey, with permission of the NationalAssociation of Colleges and Employers, copyright holder.

Physics Bachelors l Year Later 7,43O Recent Degree Recipients

Percent Private

Sector

26

High SchoolTeaching 4 Gollege & University 4 Active Military 3

Workforce

Government Other Unemployed, Seeking

2 2

5

Percent

Physics Astronomy

Graduate Study

Astronomy or Physics

26 6

Percent

Graduate Study Other Fields

22%

Engineering Other Science & Math Medicine & Law Education Other

10 5 3 2 2

Note: Data in this figure are from theAlP Statistical Research Center's annual Bachelors Followup Survey, classes of 2013 &2014 combined. The 7,430 degree recipients representthe average of thesetwoclasses. Fourpercentof respondentstothesurveyindicatedthattheyhad leftthe US to pursue employmentorgraduate studyand were not included in thefigure.

Physics PhDs Granted by Subfield Classes of 2013 & 2014 Combined

Condensed Matter Particles & Fields

Astrophysics Nuclear Physics Biologica! Physics Atomic & Molecular Physics Applied Physics Optics & Photonics Materials Science Plasma & Fusion Physics Atmospheric & Space Physics Relativity & Gravitation Statistical & Thermal Physics Mathematical Physics Other 50

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100 150 200 250 300 350 400

Number of PhDs (2-Year Averages)

Note:Additionally, an average of 151 PhD astronomers in the classes of 2013 &2014 graduated from separate astronomy departments and are not included in the figure.