The diagrams above depict the information regarding the percentage of unemployed US citizens with their weekly income based on data from 2005. Overall, people without degrees were the most vulnerable to unemplyment. This mostly refers to those, who didn’t even had high school diploma, contributing 8% in general unemployment rate, whereas people with higher education were more likely to find a job, and percentage of this category of people didn’t cross the mark of 3%.
Examining the data, the highest uneployment rate can be observed among those who didn’t even posses high school diploma, amounting to 8%. Thus, basic salary of this group of people, in turn, was the most modest – only 538 dollars per week. It is then followed by high school diploma holders, the unemloyment rate of whom was slightly fewer compared to the first category of US residents, specifically roughly 5,5%. The weekly earnings of these individuals didn’t differ drastically also – 701 dollars weekly. Those, who finished some college and didn’t obtain degree, went third (a bit more then 4%), being paid 840 dollars per week.
People who had degrees maintain the last positions in an unemplyment context. Those, who had Bachelor’s and Master’s degree, didn’t even reach 3%. In addition, 1246 and 1560 were their weekly salaries, respectively. Interestingly, professinal and doctoral degrees holders were the least exposed to unemployment, going par and sharing the same percentage of uneployment rate (1,5%). Besides this, they were paid almost equally – 1800 and 1740 dollars weekly, respectively.