Many of today’s most sought-after jobs are being snatched up by a variety of degree holders – and earning large salaries to boot. If you’re working in the field of e-commerce, special education, counseling studies, general psychology, or technology management, expect big paydays.
According to salary.com, people in the previously listed career fields and working in New York City can bring in the big bucks just as their base salaries! Whether you hold a graduate certificate or a PhD, you’ll be able to support yourself and your family and still have some extra income to put in savings or invest in that new stereo system you’ve been thinking about.
While certain factors such as degree level, position and job title within your company, experience and size of your organization can determine your salary, you can be guaranteed a big payout. Within a company of 25 to 100 employees, you can expect to make anywhere between the following:
Since the Women's Movement, the number of women entering the work force has been steadily climbing - until this decade, that is. Economists chalked up the
decreasing number of working women to the motherhood movement just two or three years ago, when they first started to notice the decline. Originally thinking that many women were going home to take care of their children, economists are now saying that women are facing the same problems as men in the work place: layoffs, downturns, outsourcing, stagnating wages, and the prospect of an outright pay cut. Women leaving the work force in the same numbers and manner as men have potentially dangerous consequences for families and their lifestyles. These trends are just about the same in well- and less-educated women, married and never-married women, white and black women, and women with teens as well as women with children under 6 years old. As a result, women with an
associate's degree, or no degree at all, find themselves back at school in hopes of finding a higher paying job after graduation.
Certified American Sign Language (ASL) teachers have been touting the benefits of teaching hearing children sign language at an early age to help develop reading skills. Now, many parents are beginning to teach their children (as young as preschoolers even) basic words and expressions as a way to have them participate in story time readings. Should ASL be taught to all young children
regardless of hearing disabilities? Laura Berg, a certified ASL teacher and founder of
My Smart Hands offers informational online videos for parents and hearing toddlers learning sign language.
According to Time magazine's article
Fewer Pursuing Tech Degrees, less and less college students are opting to study in computer-related fields despite the fact that this industry is growing exponentially. Soon-to-be retired baby boomers are cutting back on hours, college students should
consider the
technology industry.