{"id":913,"date":"2009-07-16T08:32:11","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T14:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/crawler\/?p=913"},"modified":"2009-07-17T08:39:47","modified_gmt":"2009-07-17T14:39:47","slug":"college-grad-pay-in-the-recession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2009\/07\/16\/college-grad-pay-in-the-recession\/","title":{"rendered":"college grad pay in the recession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Creative Commons licensed photo by donbuciak on flickr.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/24014236@N07\/3724528701\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2597\/3724528701_019b46cd62_t.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"benny\" \/><\/a>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/albuquerque\/stories\/2009\/07\/13\/daily55.html\">New Mexico Business Weekly<\/a> ran a story about a new study from the National Association of Colleges and employers about new employment statistics for college graduates. The bottom line&#8230; sociology majors aren&#8217;t doing so hot.<\/p>\n<p>The paper reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>College graduates from the class of 2009 who have been able to find jobs are landing starting salaries comparable to those offered a year ago, a new report has found.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s graduating class held its ground with average starting salary offers, demonstrating that employers are reluctant to significantly tinker with starting pay despite the recession, a report by the National Association of Colleges and Employers found.<\/p>\n<p>The average starting salary offer for new college graduates is $49,307, which is less than 1 percent lower than the average of $49,693 that 2008 graduates posted last year at this time, according to a news release Wednesday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Although engineering majors seem to be doing quite well, liberal arts majors appear to fall slightly behind.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Liberal arts grads experienced a decline of less than 1 percent from $36,419 last year to $36,175, the study found.<\/p>\n<p>Among the liberal arts disciplines, English majors posted a 1.1 percent increase in their average salary offer to $34,704. The salary offers for history majors rose 1.7 percent to $37,861. Psychology majors\u2019 average salary offers grew 2.1 percent to $34,284. Sociology majors, on the other hand, saw their average offers fall 4.4 percent to $33,280.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px;margin-right: 0px;margin-bottom: 15px;margin-left: 0px;line-height: 14px;font: normal normal normal 15px\/20px Georgia;color: #111111;padding: 0px\"><span style=\"line-height: 19px;font-size: 13px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/albuquerque\/stories\/2009\/07\/13\/daily55.html\">Read more.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Mexico Business Weekly ran a story about a new study from the National Association of Colleges and employers about new employment statistics for college graduates. The bottom line&#8230; sociology majors aren&#8217;t doing so hot. The paper reports: College graduates from the class of 2009 who have been able to find jobs are landing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39074],"tags":[143,175,100],"class_list":["post-913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sightings","tag-labor","tag-sociology","tag-youth"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=913"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":916,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913\/revisions\/916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}