Economics
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Early Career Income
$104,443
Lifetime Income
$5.16M
Unemployment rate
3.1%
Female share
34.1%
Occupation concentration
41.4%
in top 10 occupations
Remote work share
32.8%
% who double-major
28.4%
BA Graduates from 2024
34,735
-4.1% vs 2023
How Economics compares
Ranked against every other major nationally.
82nd
percentile
Lifetime income
Higher than 82% of majors
36th
percentile
Unemployment
Lower unemployment than 36% of majors
40th
percentile
Occupation concentration
More concentrated than 40% of majors
Top occupations
- Miscellaneous managers, including funeral service managers and postmasters and mail superintendents
- Accountants and Auditors
- Lawyers, and judges, magistrates, and other judicial workers
See the Occupations and Industries tabs for full breakdowns, Double Majors for the most common second fields of degree, and Earnings for the trajectory by age, and Trends for degree production over time.
Degree titles included in this major
These detailed majors are included in the statistics for Economics.
- Economics and Computer Science
- Economics and Foreign Language/Literature
- Mathematical Economics
- Philosophy, Politics, and Economics
- Economics, General
- Applied Economics
- Econometrics and Quantitative Economics
- Development Economics and International Development
- International Economics
- Economics, Other
Based on federal labor and demographic data. Data source & methodology