A business major fluent in Spanish and Portuguese, Mouta hopes to get into international marketing. 9 at $40,200).Ĭhelsea Mouta, a 22-year-old 2010 grad from George Washington University in Washington, D.C., is both excited and nervous to get into the job market. 7 at $40,800) and business and finance (No. 4 with a $46,000 median starting annual salary), biotech and pharmaceuticals (No. Jobs "where you take mathematic computing and turn it into something useful are jobs where we're seeing high starting salaries."Īlso in the top 10 are the math- and tech-heavy occupations of information technology (No. "These top 10 fields are occupations in which we see the practical application of math," says Al Lee, Ph.D., director of quantitative analysis at PayScale. While all of the jobs we've measured for salary are bachelor's-level careers, it's interesting to note that the top 10 best-paying entry-level occupations are math-heavy. The BLS says that while job openings are expected to grow at a national average of 11% over the next decade, engineering prospects will be excellent in certain specialties, specifically biomedical engineering, which should experience a 72% growth in the same time period.
Many engineers are now also involved in the business of going green, an area of the job market that is on the rise. It is the top-paying field on our list.Įngineering careers offer a range of more than 25 specific fields that include environmental engineering, which deals with the prevention and control of environmental health hazards, and civic engineering, which designs city building structures, road systems and facilities. The median starting salary for applicants with a bachelor's in this field is $53,400. If you've trained for a career in engineering, you stand to be well-compensated right out of the gate. Top 10 Best-Paying Jobs For College Grads Census Bureau and their own user-supplied salary data of starting salaries for employees with bachelor's degrees from more than 2,000 colleges and universities nationwide. PayScale's research looked at data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the U.S. To identify what occupations offer the brightest fiscal futures for the Class of 2010, ForbesWoman teamed up with, a leader in compensation data collection. But as it turns out, there are careers where the median starting salary is above the norm.