{"id":13536,"date":"2024-09-04T09:07:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-04T16:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/?p=13536"},"modified":"2024-10-09T12:09:19","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T19:09:19","slug":"payscale-ranks-harvey-mudd-no-1-for-early-career-salaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/2024\/09\/04\/payscale-ranks-harvey-mudd-no-1-for-early-career-salaries\/","title":{"rendered":"PayScale Ranks Harvey Mudd No. 1 for Early Career Salaries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Harvey Mudd ranked No. 1 for early career pay and No. 4 for mid-career pay in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.payscale.com\/college-salary-report\">PayScale\u2019s 2024 College Salary Report.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The rankings are based on reported salaries of 3.1 million alumni representing more than 2,400 colleges and universities across the United States, who pursued careers with a bachelor\u2019s degree as their final degree. \u201cEarly career\u201d is defined as the median salary for alumni with zero to five years of experience and \u201cmid-career\u201d is defined as 10 or more years of experience in a field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to PayScale\u2019s data, Harvey Mudd had the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.payscale.com\/college-salary-report\/bachelors?orderBy=earlyCareerMedianPay&amp;ascending=false\">highest early career median salary<\/a> at $115,000; Samuel Merritt University came in second with $114,800; CalTech placed third with $111,000 MIT fourth with $110, 200 and the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy fifth at $103,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.payscale.com\/college-salary-report\/bachelors\">mid-career salary ranking<\/a>, MIT came in first at $196,900; Princeton University second at $194,100; United States Naval Academy third at $187,800; Harvey Mudd fourth at $185,900; and Babson College fifth at $181,400.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Harvey Mudd also ranked No. 1 in PayScale\u2019s most recent&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.payscale.com\/college-roi\">College ROI Report<\/a>, a separate report published each spring that ranks colleges based on a 20-year net return on investment compared to the 24-year earnings of high school graduates without a bachelor\u2019s degree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harvey Mudd ranked No. 1 for early career pay and No. 4 for mid-career pay in PayScale\u2019s 2024 College Salary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":11508,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[967],"class_list":["post-13536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-feed"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13537,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13536\/revisions\/13537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}