Linguistics and Comparative Language and Literature
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Early Career Income
$60,055
Lifetime Income
$3.09M
Unemployment rate
4.2%
Female share
72.8%
Occupation concentration
38.2%
in top 10 occupations
Remote work share
28.7%
% who double-major
31.3%
BA Graduates from 2024
4,614
-2.3% vs 2023
How Linguistics and Comparative Language and Literature compares
Ranked against every other major nationally.
23rd
percentile
Lifetime income
Higher than 23% of majors
14th
percentile
Unemployment
Lower unemployment than 14% of majors
27th
percentile
Occupation concentration
More concentrated than 27% of majors
Top occupations
- Elementary and Middle School Teachers
- Postsecondary Teachers
- Miscellaneous managers, including funeral service managers and postmasters and mail superintendents
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 Linguistics and Comparative Language and Literature.
- Foreign Languages and Literatures, General
- Linguistics
- Language Interpretation and Translation
- Comparative Literature
- Applied Linguistics
- Linguistic, Comparative, and Related Language Studies and Services, Other
- Linguistics and Anthropology
- Linguistics and Computer Science
- Clinical and Translational Science
Based on federal labor and demographic data. Data source & methodology