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This could be due to many factors, including different types of jobs for males and females. Females are greatly underrepresented in science and engineering fields, which are typically correlated with high lifetime earnings. [30] Males and females also have vastly different labor market histories based on type of job and time spent in each job. [24]
In the US at the college and university level, each level of degree attainment significantly increases lifetime earnings as more education is achieved. [12] Lifetime ROI is significantly higher at lower levels of educational attainment than at higher levels (1,200.8% for an Associate's degree vs. 287.7% for a Bachelor's degree). [12]
As with income, levels differ by race, age, household configuration, and geography. [3] Information on educational attainment of the U.S. population has been collected in every decennial census since 1940. [4] At a national level, reports show rates of educational attainment by age, sex, race, and Hispanic origin.
The median ROI—defined as the lifetime earnings a student can expect when they enroll in a degree program minus their cost of attendance and earnings lost while enrolled—for all master’s ...
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Median U.S. household income per County in 2021 Median U.S. household income through 2019 U.S. real median household income reached $63,688 in January 2019, an increase of $171 or 0.3% over one month over that of December 2018. This article is part of a series on Income in the United States of America Topics Household Personal Affluence Social class Income inequality gender pay gap racial pay ...
The National Education Association reports that the national average for a teacher’s starting salary is $44,530. The national average salary for teachers is $69,597. States vary in what they pay ...
Illustration from a 1916 advertisement for a vocational school in the back of a US magazine. Education has been seen as a key to socioeconomic mobility, and the advertisement appealed to Americans' belief in the possibility of self-betterment as well as threatening the consequences of downward mobility in the great income inequality existing during the Industrial Revolution.