What was your starting salary out of college?

[chiquen81]

Mine doesn't seem to be rising that much. I guess you really do have to leave a company and start somewhere else in order to raise your salary up.

[Crystalina]

When I graduated college in 2000 and got my first job as a high school teacher, my starting salary was $26,500.

Six years later, in 2006, I was still only making $31,500.

I don't teach anymore! LOL

[ImASadGiraffe]

Undergraduate degree in Marketing - started in a sales job making $30k/year plus commission-based bonuses.

[candypants1100]

first year teaching with master's degree 39

[meluvs2shop]

undergrad degree in communications- started out as a Sales Asst. in TV 10 years ago and that paid 25k.

i believe engineering pays really well right out of college even with an undergrad degree. or at least it did 10 years ago.

[lanasyogamama]

I graduated with a BS in Management Info Systems in 1995 and my salary was $30K.

[chessmont]

You folks will be amazed - in the olden days (1978) I graduated with a BS in Medical technology. First job: $10,000! By 1981 I was promted a few times and was up to 22,000!. Perhaps in 1981 dollars that was pretty good!

[Becca4277]

I graduated with my BS degree in 1995. I was hired to be a Quality Assurance Coordinator at a hospital one hour away. I commuted two hours a day for $18,000 a year.

[girl11]

Not college, but in 2000, I completed a program at Katherine Gibbs and started at 30k as a legal secretary. With the cost of living going up in the past 8 years, it is so much higher but it took after 4 years for it to really start getting up there.

[rosieroseanna]

I started my job as a teacher in September and get £20,133 going up to £22,259 this September, it's about $40,266 in dollars. It's not great but my school is really close and I can leave at 3.15!

[Cristina]

I graduated in May 2005 with an undergraduate degree in journalism, minor in political science. I made $30,000/year as a marketing and public relations coordinator with a small construction company in Orlando.

[artjen]

I'm a teacher and my first year I only made about $26,000!

[juneping]

when i first got out of grad school, my salary was 30K - architecture
and i went to grad school again..double masters and it was 36K...the cheap company dared to give 2% raise to everyone....it's like less than 1K. wtf?!

[Virgo]

My first salaried job was when I was done graduate school (MS in Psych) in 2000. It was in clinical research and I made $35K.

(I was an idiot though. I worked there part-time when I was in school for $17/hr. When I graduated, they offered me full-time and asked what I wanted for salary and I said "whatever $17/hr is salary-wise". So of course they said sure. Duh me)

[Virgo]

Originally Posted by chiquen81

Mine doesn't seem to be rising that much. I guess you really do have to leave a company and start somewhere else in order to raise your salary up.

I think so, since I graduated with my MS and started my career I've been at 5 companies and my salary has gone up significantly from when I started. Not all my moves were planned (once I got laid off) but all have benefited me financially and career-wise. I learned alot and made a lot of contacts. I've been at my current company 4 years now and the salary increases are pretty decent but no where as high as when I jumped to another company.