United States History
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Early Career Income
$68,358
Lifetime Income
$3.68M
Unemployment rate
4.7%
Female share
40.8%
Occupation concentration
41.4%
in top 10 occupations
Remote work share
25.8%
% who double-major
29.9%
BA Graduates from 2024
4
-55.6% vs 2023
How United States History compares
Ranked against every other major nationally.
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Lifetime income
Higher than 50% of majors
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Unemployment
Lower unemployment than 7% of majors
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percentile
Occupation concentration
More concentrated than 40% of majors
Top occupations
- Lawyers, and judges, magistrates, and other judicial workers
- Elementary and Middle School 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 United States History.
- American History (United States)
Based on federal labor and demographic data. Data source & methodology