What can you Expect from your Starting Salary?……. Not Much
Ready to hit the real world with your first entry level job? Finally, you will be making money, livin’ large. Well hold on a second. Before you make plans to move into that penthouse apartment in Manhattan, or start shopping for BMW’s, you might want to look below at the average starting salaries for your major.
Don’t get bummed out, Eating Ramen Soup and having three roommates isn’t that bad is it?
Hospitality services management: $36,480
Business administration/management: $42,048
Accounting: $45,656
Economics/finance:$45,112
Information sciences and systems: $48,593
Civil engineering: $46,023
Chemical engineering:$56,335.
Computer engineering: $53,651
Electrical engineering:$53,552
Mechanical engineering: $51,732
History:$32,697
Psychology:$30,218
Communications:$31,876
Political science and government:$32,665
Sociology:$30,944
English: $30,906
*#’s according to a 2006 survey



