The bar chart reveals the percentage of unemployed citizens in the US along with the table which illustrates the average weekly earnings across seven levels of education in 2005.
Overall, there is a strong connection between the level of degree and the unemployment rate. It is obvious that people with lower level of education are more likely to be unemployed.
Looking at the table, it is noticeable that the highest average income per week was earned by people with a professional degree, followed by the people who have doctoral and master’s degree respectively. In stark contrast, the people at the bottom of the list were those who did not enroll in high school earned the smallest salary which is just north of 500$. Moving to the figure for the US citizens with bachelor’s degree accounted for 1246$, compared to 840$ and 701$ earned by Americans with no degree and high school diploma in turn.
This statistic, however, was flipped when it came to the unemployment rate. While over 8% of Americans with less than high school graduation were jobless, the unemployment rate reduced as the level of degree increased. In detail, people who pursued higher education tended to be employed; it can be seen that the jobless rate of those who have professional and doctoral degree took up 1.5%.