The given bar chart juxtaposes the median yearly incomes across different sectors of bachelor’s degrees based on years of experience in the US in 2014.
Looking from an overarching perspective, it is conspicuous that the median annual earnings increased commensurate with the number of experiential years. Besides, graduates with bachelor’s degrees in computer science tended to enjoy higher salaries compared to others.
Within the first 5 years of experience, computer science graduates earned roughly $63,000, remarkably higher than psychology graduates at $38,000; meanwhile, the emoluments of other majors fell in the realm of between $39,000 and $57,000. As for the middle columns, acquiring from 10 to 20 years of experience in computer science was equivalent to earning about $103,000 annually, $21,000 and $14,000 higher than those of philosophy and civil engineering, respectively. Language and literature, accounting, and business management graduates alike raked in approximately $69,000 after gaining the same period of experience, while those in other sectors’ yearly salaries hovered around $73,000.
Surprisingly, as to the remaining vertical axis, after 20 years of accumulating experience, it was the international relations graduates who achieved the top-end annual earnings, about $119,000; concurrently, the figures for computer science and civil engineering were around $116,000 and $108,000, respectively. Additionally, other sectors displayed variations, all below $100,000.