Highest paying bachelor's degrees in the U.S. by mid-career pay 2021/22 | Statista

This statistic shows the leading bachelor's degrees with the highest mid-career salary in the U.S. in the academic year 2020/21. In 2020/21, petroleum engineering was ranked first with the mid-career salary of 182,000 U.S. dollars.

Highest paying bachelor's degrees in the United States in 2021/22, by mid-career salary (in U.S. dollars)

Bachelor's degree	Mid-career pay in U.S. dollars
Petroleum Engineering	187,300
Operations Research & Industrial Engineering	170,400
Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (EECS)	159,300
Interaction Design	155,800
Public Accounting	147,700
Operations Research	147,700
Applied Economics and Management	146,400
Business Computing (BC)	143,600
Actuarial Mathematics	143,400
Electrical Power Engineering	142,600
Information & Computer Science	140,900
Aeronautics & Astronautics	139,600
Systems Engineering	139,200
Econometrics	139,000
Pharmacy	138,700
Aerospace Studies	136,600
Chemical Engineering	135,900
Building Science	135,900
Cognitive Science	135,200
Actuarial Science	134,400

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September 2021

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United States

Survey time period

2021

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Bachelor's degree holder

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Mid-career salary is defined as the median salary for alumni with 10 or more years of work experience.

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