An overall average, while perhaps useful year-over-year for a birdseye view, is not particularly helpful if you care about sectors or industries. And is that “average” of all colleges and majors?
Sixteen years ago as a new-grad green 3rd A/E I was making $130k. Lawyers and Wall Street guys and programmers start higher than that. So who’s making Zero dollars a year that bringing down that “average” to less than $30k?
The Wendy’s next town over from me is hiring entry level cashiers at $17/hr = $35,000/yr!! So what jobs are these college grads taking?