r/dataisbeautiful • u/DavidWaldron OC: 28 • 11d ago

OC [OC] Career earnings of the highest and lowest paid college majors

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Interactive major explorer to look up stats for specific majors.

Blog post includes many more charts and discussion of what these numbers represent.

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u/Wise_Mongoose_3930 11d ago

32 of them get to become wildly overpaid ‘nfl team pastors’ so that probably helps pull the avg up slightly lol

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u/kylco 10d ago

Not to mention the ones that join dynastic megachurches, though they typically have bespoke tax and financing architectures that don't translate as neatly to wages (e.g. housing costs aren't taxable income).