What is the average salary for someone who has an associates degree?
Be careful with who you listen to here, I know some people that think the average American makes $50K — that’s way above the real median income in the US. There is more to the equation than the degree but generally speaking, any degree has earnings value above no degree. Much depends on exactly what you get a degree in and what job you get with it. Getting an MD and becoming a bartender won’t help your income at all – even though you are an MD. Trying to find a job as a heiroglyphic translator in Wayoutback, Alabama won’t be an easy task either. You have to make the right combinations to earn the best incomes. (I know someone with a degree in marine science who moved back to the midwest where she works in a department store – I always figured that marine scientists needed to be near an ocean) This article on MSN should give you some good information.
