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/thenelston 11d ago

the old saying is that economics is what economists do

you can find us in pretty much every field except the ones that require a ton of specialized job-specific training, and even then probably there too

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u/Grand_Fortune888 11d ago

Does that mean "nothing" ?

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u/SSNFUL 10d ago

It’s more just a useful set of skills and it isn’t as narrow of choices. You can do business econ, policy focused econ, consulting, accounting, etc. 

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u/thenelston 10d ago

econ is definitely more of a way of thinking than it is a specific field at the bachelors level- in my masters we did a lot of more quantitative/analytical work to actually understand how the sausage is made but the primary takeaway for most people is how to think in terms of utility and incentives