What does this degree pay, where you live?

Related occupations and their pay come from the real federal NCES/BLS CIP-SOC crosswalk and BLS OEWS wage tables (national and state-level) — including which states pay more or less for this degree's occupations. Entry-level (10th percentile) and experienced (90th percentile) are also real BLS figures now, not a formula — use the pay-percentile control above to switch the map, breakdown, and school-cost comparison below between them; BLS's own convention treats the 10th percentile as an entry-level proxy since OEWS doesn't survey by years of experience, so it skews toward less-experienced workers rather than measuring literal first-year pay. A specific percentile is occasionally not reported for a state even when the median is — when that happens, the page falls back to typical (median) pay and says so rather than showing a blank. A small number of majors the crosswalk doesn't map to a specific occupation fall back to the real U.S. average across all occupations. The cost-of-living index used for the "adjusted for cost of living" view is real, sourced data (see the note below the breakdown). The college rankings below are real too — ranked by actual reported earnings for this specific major at each school (U.S. Dept. of Education College Scorecard), not a subjective prestige score; a major with no school reporting earnings data yet is listed alphabetically instead (see the note below that section).