A few things to note about the PayScale survey of the income of undergraduate majors:
1) The methodology description notes, "This chart is based upon PayScale Salary Survey data for full-time employees in the United States who possess a Bachelor's degree and no higher degrees and have majored in the subjects listed above." I think most of us communicate to our students that they are not going to make a living wage doing counseling/social work with a bachelor's degree. Counseling will require at least a Master's degree. 2) Our students also shouldn't make the mistake of thinking that another degree leads to any higher pay for doing counseling or social work at the bachelor's level. Alternative majors like Sociology, Criminal Justice, Social Work and Child and Family Studies are all lower on the list than Psychology. 3) Almost all of the highest paying majors (and all of the top 20) are for various engineering, math and science majors that require higher level math ability. That doesn't describe our constituency for the most part (there are always exceptions). It is not like a Psych major is just going to decide as a sophomore in college that they have decided they are going to major in Petroleum Engineering. Rick Dr. Rick Froman, Chair Division of Humanities and Social Sciences John Brown University Siloam Springs, AR 72761 rfro...@jbu.edu<mailto:rfro...@jbu.edu> ________________________________ From: don allen [dap...@shaw.ca] Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2011 10:50 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] Oh, dear ... Well, at least we beat these guys: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/28/the-13-worst-paying-colle_n_911809.html#s317428&title=Children_and_Family ----- Original Message ----- From: roig-rear...@comcast.net Date: Thursday, July 28, 2011 7:12 am Subject: [tips] Oh, dear ... To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" <tips@fsulist.frostburg.edu> > > > The latest issue of Perspectives on Psychological Science > contains the following paper: > > > Perspectives on Psychological Science > Volume 6, Number 4 > > > > Psychology Degrees: Employment, Wage, and Career Trajectory > Consequences > D.W. Rajecki and Victor M.H. Borden > Psychology is a very popular bachelor's degree, so the > psychological science community should be thrilled, right? > However, the authors of this article found that psychology > professionals fall into the lower salary tiers across the board. > Not only do individuals with undergraduate degrees receive lower > starting salaries and experience repeated job seeking, but > individuals with master's degrees and faculty positions in > psychology also receive lower salaries than do their colleagues > in other academic fields. These findings show that there are > relative economic disadvantages associated with psychology > degrees that should be communicated to prospective psychology > majors. > > There is probably nothing new that you did not already know or > suspect, but I thought the paper would interest many of you. > > > > Miguel > --- > You are currently subscribed to tips as: dap...@shaw.ca. > To unsubscribe click here: > http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13157.966b795bc7f3ccb35e3da08aebe98f18&n=T&l=tips&o=11644or > send a blank email to > leave-11644-13157.966b795bc7f3ccb35e3da08aebe98...@fsulist.frostburg.edu Don Allen Retired professor Langara College --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: rfro...@jbu.edu<mailto:rfro...@jbu.edu>. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13039.37a56d458b5e856d05bcfb3322db5f8a&n=T&l=tips&o=11648 (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) or send a blank email to leave-11648-13039.37a56d458b5e856d05bcfb3322db5...@fsulist.frostburg.edu<mailto:leave-11648-13039.37a56d458b5e856d05bcfb3322db5...@fsulist.frostburg.edu> --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=11653 or send a blank email to leave-11653-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
