When people talk about the value of a college degree, they mean different things. A report last year by Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce pegs the median value of a four-year bachelor’s degree at $2.3 million, which is the average earnings for a degree holder employed full-time from ages 25 to 64. … Continue reading
On Thursday I wrote about how workers view the meaningfulness of their jobs, based on data collected from 30,000 workers by PayScale over the last year. (See caveats on PayScale’s methodology below.) Respondents were asked whether their jobs “make the world a better place,” and were given the options of: “very much so,” “yes,” “a … Continue reading