Regarding salaries:
"Miguel Roig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> stated, in a previous post on
09/27/2008 at 09:29 AM: Those of you who are following this thread may be
interested in the following piece from the most recent issue of the APA
Monitor: Science salaries: low for BA, MS psychology degrees:
http://www.apa.org/monitor/2008/09/salaries.html. In this article the
"average" salary for psychology graduates was reported to be $30,000
(bachelors) and $40,000 (masters).
While the web page that Miguel refers us to provides summary
information, it does not differentiate across the different specialties of
psychology. In some areas salaries may be considerably higher. For
example, the posted starting salaries for jobs listed with the Human
Factors and Ergonomics Society Placement Service in 2006 ranged from a low
of $30,000 to a high of $162,000. The median minimum salary was $65,000
and the median maximum salary was $96,292. While 140 positions were
listed, salary data was only posted for 31 of these positions (William F.
Moroney, Placement Opportunities for Human Factors Engineering and
Ergonomics Professionals,PROCEEDINGS of the HUMAN FACTORS AND ERGONOMICS
SOCIETY 51st ANNUAL MEETING—2007). Moroney does not differentiate across
degree levels (probably due to the page limits on the article he wrote).
Similarly, he does not differentiate whether the job candidate would have
a psychology degree or an engineering degree. Even so, Moroney's lowest
salary ($30K) is equal to the APA "average" salary for bachelors
graduates.
Thus, my recommendations are to consider the type of specialization
one would have prior to doing salary research. Human Factors, for
example, probably pays higher starting salaries than some other
specializations. While I do not have the data in front of me now, I would
speculate that the same holds true for Industrial Organizational (I/O)
psychology.
Ron
Dr. Ronald G. Shapiro
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