
Engineering And Industrial Management: $125,946.Cognitive Science And Biopsychology: $131,532.Atmospheric Sciences And Meteorology: $48,626.Cognitive Science And Biopsychology: $50,571.Electrical, Mechanical, And Precision Technologies And Production: $51,241.Pharmacy Pharmaceutical Sciences And Administration: $51,934.Agriculture Production And Management: $52,130.Computer Networking And Telecommunications: $52,425.Medical Technologies Technicians: $52,910.
Computer Programming And Data Processing: $56,578. Industrial Production Technologies: $57,144. Nuclear, Industrial Radiology, And Biological Technologies: $58,345. Computer Administration Management And Security: $58,943. Computer And Information Systems: $60,101. Mechanical Engineering Related Technologies: $60,869. Engineering Mechanics Physics And Science: $62,311. Miscellaneous Engineering Technologies: $62,470. Electrical Engineering Technology: $62,647. Engineering And Industrial Management: $63,266. Management Information Systems And Statistics: $67,232. Materials Engineering And Materials Science: $68,206. Statistics And Decision Science: $68,213. Industrial And Manufacturing Engineering: $71,593. Naval Architecture And Marine Engineering: $91,562. In a previous article I rank all majors by starting and mid-career salaries, as well salary growth rates. Read on to see the STEM majors ranked by starting salary and mid-career salary. And Animal Sciences, Ecology, and Zoology end up doing much better, with salary growth rates that are among the highest of all majors. Not all STEM majors pay great to start though, three pay $40,000 or less (Animal Sciences, Ecology, and Zoology), placing them in the company of the lowest paying majors.īut by mid-career, only one STEM major pays less than $70,000: Nutrition Sciences.
In fact, Petroleum Engineering is the only major (from all fields) that has a starting salary greater than $100,000. Prominent among the STEM majors with the highest starting salary is engineering, with 7 of the top 10 majors in the engineering field. Of all fields, STEM majors have the highest starting salary at $57,900 per year, as well as the highest mid-career salary at $108,300 per year. In this article, I break down salary by STEM major using data collected by the American Community Survey between 2009-2019.