Forestry
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Early Career Income
$68,221
Lifetime Income
$3.56M
Unemployment rate
2.3%
Female share
19.5%
Occupation concentration
37.7%
in top 10 occupations
Remote work share
17.2%
% who double-major
19.9%
BA Graduates from 2024
1,143
+5.5% vs 2023
How Forestry compares
Ranked against every other major nationally.
45th
percentile
Lifetime income
Higher than 45% of majors
64th
percentile
Unemployment
Lower unemployment than 64% of majors
25th
percentile
Occupation concentration
More concentrated than 25% of majors
Top occupations
- Conservation Scientists and Foresters
- Miscellaneous managers, including funeral service managers and postmasters and mail superintendents
- Firefighters
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 Forestry.
- Forestry, General
- Forest Sciences and Biology
- Forest Management/Forest Resources Management
- Urban Forestry
- Wood Science and Wood Products/Pulp and Paper Technology/Technician
- Forest Resources Production and Management
- Forest Technology/Technician
- Forestry, Other
Based on federal labor and demographic data. Data source & methodology