{"id":39198,"date":"2011-09-04T10:38:51","date_gmt":"2011-09-04T15:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=39198"},"modified":"2013-11-09T05:58:27","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T10:58:27","slug":"trends-in-starting-salaries-for-college-grads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/09\/04\/trends-in-starting-salaries-for-college-grads\/","title":{"rendered":"Trends in Starting Salaries for College Grads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>College is a good investment. <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/08\/10\/lifetime-earnings-gaps-by-sex-and-raceethnicity\/\">Yes, still<\/a>. \u00a0But, as this graph sent in by Deeb shows, entry level wages for college graduate, controlled for inflation, have shown quite a bit of variance over the last 30 years. \u00a0Starting salaries are consequential. \u00a0For many jobs raises are calculated as a proportion of your existing salary, such that starting salaries have cumulative effects over the lifetime.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s college graduates, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epi.org\/economic_snapshots\/entry\/new_college_grads_losing_ground_on_wages\/\" target=\"_blank\">Economic Policy Institute<\/a>, will have an average starting salary of $1.00 less than ten years ago:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/09\/16.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-39199\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/09\/16.png\" width=\"582\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/09\/16.png 582w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/09\/16-500x399.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 582px) 100vw, 582px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>College is a good investment. Yes, still. \u00a0But, as this graph sent in by Deeb shows, entry level wages for college graduate, controlled for inflation, have shown quite a bit of variance over the last 30 years. \u00a0Starting salaries are consequential. \u00a0For many jobs raises are calculated as a proportion of your existing salary, such [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36,34,55,76],"class_list":["post-39198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-economics","tag-education","tag-gender","tag-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39198"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58703,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39198\/revisions\/58703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}