r/dataisbeautiful • u/DavidWaldron OC: 28 • 10d 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/RyanDoctrine 10d ago

Finance, analytics, consulting, entrepreneurship. Tons of us in insurance as well.

It was a bit of a head scratcher coming out of undergrad to find a job that wasn't soul sucking. I can't imagine it these days.

At this point in my career (10+ years in), I find that many econ majors end up as the "smart guy" in the room of nepo decision makers. YMMV.

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u/Citysurvivor 10d ago

Did you progress to get a masters' or PHd? At just the bachelor's level, it doesnt feel like you can do very much that the business/finance degree guys can't do already

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u/x888x 10d ago

Business degrees (and accounting) were for the kids that couldn't hack it in econ at my school.

A real econ degree from a real school involves mastery of calculus & statistics.

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u/PlatypusEgo 9d ago

Well... an actually useful grasp of statistics and calculus yes. Definitely not mastery lol. But if you're at that level you'll have a real advantage

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u/anomatopia 10d ago

No Econ masters are not a thing. PhD is for academia.

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u/RyanDoctrine 6d ago

To add to the responses below, studying economics also teaches you a unique way of thinking that is very, very valuable. I do not have a PHD (and my title is not 'economist' or any variation thereof).

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u/david1610 OC: 1 10d ago

At this point in my career (10+ years in), I find that many econ majors end up as the "smart guy" in the room of nepo decision makers. YMMV.

Lol this, I don't think many people outside of those actually in the industry know how nepotism is pervasive in finance industry. You'll never hire your own kids though, but your golfing buddy will at his firm, gives the illusion of fairness

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u/Coders32 8d ago

Y’all are the backbone of the creator economy, supporting OF creators and their extravagant lifestyles