Living in America » education http://www.living-in-america.biz/blog An insider/outsider perspective on living in the United States of America Thu, 13 Oct 2011 04:17:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 The Story Of Stuff http://www.living-in-america.biz/blog/education/the-story-of-stuff/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-story-of-stuff http://www.living-in-america.biz/blog/education/the-story-of-stuff/#comments Wed, 17 Sep 2008 06:18:30 +0000 LivingInAmerica http://www.living-in-america.biz/blog/?p=132 Continue reading →]]> Hi there, it’s been some time since I posted, somehow got too busy with the daily life. But I collected a bunch of interesting topics I want to post about, so there will be new content very soon. Also, the weather was just too nice here in San Francisco, I am waiting for a rainy weekend now to pimp up the blog a bit more and work on the design etc. Anyway, more to come.

My friend Sanaa recently sent me a an interesting link for a video series, The Story Of Stuff. You should check out the whole series on Youtube. Parts of America are waking up that this level of consumption and waste production cannot go on endlessly, so there is hope. But then again, if I look at how many of my neighbors are actually properly recycling, I guess we still have a long way to go. And that’s in SF, where people are already considered pretty “green”.

Check out the rest of the series, it’s well done.

]]> http://www.living-in-america.biz/blog/education/the-story-of-stuff/feed/ 3 Average Salaries in the United States by Education Level http://www.living-in-america.biz/blog/jobs/average-salaries-in-the-united-states-by-education-level/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=average-salaries-in-the-united-states-by-education-level http://www.living-in-america.biz/blog/jobs/average-salaries-in-the-united-states-by-education-level/#comments Sat, 19 Jul 2008 07:45:37 +0000 LivingInAmerica http://www.living-in-america.biz/blog/?p=17 Continue reading →]]> Here is something for the data hungry: The WSJ on July 17, 2008 reported about the declining value of the four year college degree in the U.S. According to the article, the degree is less of a guarantee for pay advances as it used to be in the past. However, compared to the average person with a high school diploma, someone who has a four year college degree still makes about 75% more on average.

On average, here is what you could expect to earn per year by the end of 2006:

  • High School Diploma: about US$31,000
  • Some college/Associate Degree: about US$ 33,000
  • Bachelor’s Degree: about US$ 58,000
  • Advanced Degree: about US$ 82,000

The WSJ also provides some further interesting graphics to correlate education levels with salaries, unemployment, expectations about globalization, and recent salary shifts. Interesting fact here is that almost all educational levels had to go through net salary losses (adjusted for inflation) from 2001-2007, except for professional doctoral degrees. I guess though this is still simply a late dot.com, 9/11 and general global market condition adjustment, and does not mean these degrees have lost their earnings power.

The Economist Intelligence Unit has the average personal disposable income per head at US$35,400 for 2008.

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