With college graduation season upon us, it's again time to take a look at which majors garner the most pay.
For all of the jobs in the Top 30, starting pay was up over last year. Engineering and science occupations continued their stranglehold on the top third of the rankings. For the record, still coming in dead last is Child and Family Studies with a starting salary of $30,300 and a mid-career salary (15 years in) of $37,200.
In 2012, our sister site ThinkAdvisor looked at which degrees were paying the most. This year, as it did in 2013, it drilled down into specific majors using data from payscale.com. Payscale lists 129 majors on its site.
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