Business Majors Salary Expectations Increase 4.6% to $52,890 for Undergraduates and 5.7% to $72,800 for Graduate Students
Finance Majors in the Northeast have highest salary expectations.
Stock-Trak’s semi-annual survey of business majors reveals some striking differences in salary expectations among graduating university students. Overall, Stock-Trak’s SoBER Index is up 3.7% for Spring 2015 compared to Spring 2014. The SoBER Index, or “Students of Business Expected Remuneration” Index, is a survey of the salary expectations of the 60,000 students that use one of Stock-Trak’s portfolio simulations in a university business class each semester. The 3.7% increase of the overall SoBER Index reflects the first substantial increase in salary expectations since the 2007-2008 financial crisis, particularly for undergraduate students (who still expect less than the average student in Spring 2008). Digging down one level of our survey demographics, Stock-Trak’s SoBER Index reveals that graduate students expect a 31.1% higher salary than undergraduates, undergraduate males expect 15% more than females (although this trend does not extend to grad students), finance majors expect 18% more than marketing majors, and students at universities in the Northeast expect 6% more than students in the South. Stock-Trak’s SoBER Index is sorted and analyzed based on the following demographics:
- Gender (male/female)
- Major (accounting, economics, finance, management, marketing)
- Region (Northeast, South, Midwest, West)
- Degree (undergraduate, graduate)
- City (top 20 US cities)
This analysis reveals that, among graduating seniors:
- the greatest difference in salary expectations by major is the Economics vs Marketing major difference of $9,000
- the greatest difference in salary expectations by region is the Northeast vs South region difference of $3,700, and
- among the top 20 cities represented by the survey, students in the following cities had the highest salary expectations (decreasing order): San Francisco, Seattle, Milwaukee, New York, San Jose.
For 2nd year graduate students, the results are more drastic:
- the greatest difference in salary expectations by major is the Finance vs Management major difference of $20,400
- the greatest difference in salary expectations by region is the West vs Northeast region difference of $21,300, and
- among the top 20 cities represented by the survey, students in the following cities had the highest salary expectations (decreasing order): San Antonio/Austin, Chicago, Detroit, Jacksonville, and New York.
At the most granular level, the SoBER Index reveals that undergraduate male finance majors in NYC expect $63,000 while undergraduate female marketing majors in Detroit expect $43,384. The full Stock-Trak SoBER Index report is available that shows the following levels of detail:
- Undergraduate x Major x Gender x Region
- Undergraduate x Major x Gender x City
- Undergraduate x Major x Gender x University
- Graduate x Major x Gender x Region
- Graduate x Major x Gender x City
- Graduate x Major x Gender x University
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