PayScale, a Seattle data firm, examines the links between pay and variables like colleges and majors.
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PayScale allows users to compare their salary online to other people with similar individual and job characteristics.
In order to compile the ranking of colleges, we turned to PayScale.com, an online compensation comparison tool.
It includes early-career salaries for college graduates from payscale.com, which are self-reported by users of the site.
We also factored in federal unemployment data and median salaries for local college-educated workers, courtesy of Payscale.com.
To gauge the most lucrative majors, we turned to PayScale.com, which collects real-time salary information from 10 million users.
PayScale's analysis doesn't show how a specific degree from one school compares with that same degree from another school.
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PayScale's database includes real-time salary data culled from 13 million unique compensation profiles.
About 90% of those in private sector jobs reporting info to Payscale are currently working in the law profession.
So says a recent study compiled by PayScale.com that looks at earnings of alumni at colleges around the country.
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In addition to the mid-career employees, we also asked Payscale to look at salaries of those grads with little experience.
The PayScale Instant Salary Report will give you a general idea of whether your current salary is in the correct range.
According to Payscale, the top jobs available to veterans working at government agencies are social worker, information technology specialist, and program analyst.
"Everything today has a computer in it, " says Al Lee, director of quantitative analysis at PayScale.com, an online compensation comparison tool.
Forbes turned to Payscale.com to find the law schools whose graduates make the most in the early stages of their career.
For a second consecutive year, Booz Allen Hamilton is the top employer for veterans, according to new market data collected by Payscale.com.
PayScale's Ms. Bardaro says students should research carefully the pay they are likely to secure before deciding how much to spend on college.
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According to a recent survey from Millennial Branding and Payscale, Millenials really are most likely to be employed in service industry jobs.
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For this study, Payscale looked only at employers that offer positions where military experience or training is highly relevant in day to day work.
The worst returns tend to come from schools whose programs focus on nursing, criminal justice, sociology and education, says Katie Bardaro, an analyst at PayScale.
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Both of these jobs are considered highly flexible by Payscale, because of the percentage of workers who said they can do their job from home.
Payscale put the mid-career salary data together for Forbes from the profiles of its 24 million unique users that supply compensation information on its website.
And last--but certainly not least--our new earnings ranking, provided by PayScale, looks at average salaries (base pay, not including bonuses) for a basket of common professions.
Payscale combed through the profiles of its 30 million unique users who supply compensation information on its website to find which law school grads make the most.
"The kinds of majors where you learn to integrate mathematics and science with the everyday world have a tremendous benefit in terms of earnings potential, " says PayScale.com's Lee.
According to Payscale, the data are inconclusive on this matter.
The salaries below from Payscale are current median salaries (as of fall 2010) for recent law school graduates who in almost all cases finished law school within the last five years.
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