Average Starting Salary For 2012 College Grads: $44,259

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I know of 6 college grads that cant find a job in there chosen field because every body is looking and the ones with experience get the job. My daughter being 0ne of them

What does a degree in "occupy Wall Street" get you?

I didn't think any grads were finding jobs in the Obumma-economy?

I wonder just how many will flock to the polls to vote for Obama, again. Their gravy train --------just ended--------Now it's time to pay the fiddler.

"The average so far for the class of 2012 is $44,259." Statistics say that the average college student will graduate
$60,000.00 in debt. At 6% interest for 15 years, this new individual is not going to be able to be part of building the middle-class dream. Oh, by the way, $44,000. is probably not middle-class. This is still part of the working-poor, albeit at the upper end. This means that we should all invest in Banks and Colleges on Wall Street, as this is where all the growth is. The cost of a college education has outstripped inflation for decades. Tenure teaching is where all the old politicians and CEOs go, who are too old to make it anymore. The price of buying into a better job, or a chance at the upper middle-class is getting way too expensive for the amount that American business is willing to pay the over-supply of college graduates. Before you get all political, do the math. Don't repeat the dogma from either political party. The math just doesn't work. No vibrant middle-class, means no America. Extremely rich and poor equals India and Pakistan, not America. The government trying to make the poor into the middle-class, equals Greece. I think it's time to have one of the very famous companies from Israel outsource college educations to India, and computers on the worldwide web. It worked very well with the back office of Warner Bros. Studio, for Time-Life, and the Human Resources depart. of Bank Of America. And I believe we are currently doing it with the Nielson-Ratings Company. The old college professors can then become consultants, write books, do something for a living besides having young ignorant students paying homage at the altar of what-used-to-be. We can even include to each Freshman student an envelope of fresh Harvard mold to hang up by their computer. With the $40,000 they save, they could buy a decent suit or a stylish hoodie to go get their first interview started out properly. They might even purchase a pair of wing-tip shoes so they can quit coming to interviews with running shoes on. The only one this will hurt is Helicopter-Ben, who gives the money to the big banks FOR FREE, who then loan it to the college students for INTEREST & hidden fees . Oh, and this will also mess up the politicians who try to convince students that they are helping them. My mother always said, "When one is making soup, the fat always rises to the top, and needs to be skimmed off."; and American business has cut all the fat and waste off the bottom for decades. Now it's time to skim the fat off the top, and like Chicken Soup, Buddie, there's lots of it. Like the old Gospel song, "It's deep and wide." - [fat]. If employees who fail are terminated, then CEOs who are mediocre and fail should not be paid what they are being paid, and should also be terminated. This will allow for dividends for the stockholders who deserve proper return on their capital and growth. No unions for CEOs or workers.

I think that salary levels are adequate now for most professional jobs but the problem is that many of our citizens cannot find work. I have experienced an unemployment situation when I left school. I paid an employment agent for the job I landed in 1947 when I left college. Shortly thereafter I was reimbursed for the fee I had paid because the connection with my employer worked out so well. Of course, in my day, we didn't graduate with so much indebtedness as students do nowadays. I didn't have much money when I graduated but I didn't have any indebtedness either. So maybe current salary levels are not as high as they look at first glance.