I was making little more than $7/hour in the early 1980s as a supervisor and one of those in my crew was a college graduate who was making $5/hour. His story was far from isolated or uncommon.
- The average projected starting salary in the U.S. for the class of 2024 at the bachelor’s degree level is $68,516, according to a Bankrate analysis of NACE data.
- HS graduates in 2022 made an average of $34300.