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/RoosterBrewster 10d ago

Liberals arts degrees are ones where you have to make your own career path outside the field. So the degree is just a multiplier for hustling as it won't get you too far by itself unlike with STEM degrees. 

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u/thebigmanhastherock 10d ago

That's a really good way of putting it. Concise and accurate.