Salary and Employment Trends
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Average Starting Salary 2006
Maximum |
Minimum |
Mean |
Median |
$90,000 |
$32,200 |
$69,908 |
$73,250 |
Detailed Post Graduation Statistics 2005-2006
Starting Salary Statistics 2002 - 2005 CS Graduates
|
2002 |
2003 |
2004 |
2005 |
Average |
$62,386.00 |
$58,671.00 |
$63,800.00 |
$67,500.00 |
Median |
$61,740.00 |
$55,000.00 |
$63,240.00 |
$71,000.00 |
High |
$85,000.00 |
$82,000.00 |
$105,000.00 |
$85,000.00 |
Low |
$32,000.00 |
$22,000.00 |
$30,000.00 |
$40,000.00 |
Standard Deviation |
$13,008.00 |
$14,961.00 |
$12,415.00 |
$12,627.00 |
Average Starting Salaries by Location 2002-2005
2002 |
2003 |
2004 |
2005 |
Overall |
|
| California | $69,625 |
$61,750 |
$70,513 |
$73,806 |
$68,924 |
| Connecticut | -- |
$65,000 |
$66,250 |
$65,000 |
$65,417 |
| Illinois | -- |
$80,000 |
$80,000 |
$80,000 |
$80,000 |
| Maryland | $57,600 |
$44,000 |
$56,780 |
$55,000 |
$53,345 |
| New York | $57,000 |
$57,600 |
$62,700 |
$57,857 |
$58,789 |
| Pennsylvania | $50,000 |
$43,875 |
$50,000 |
$53,167 |
$49,261 |
| Texas | $71,000 |
-- |
$55,000 |
$68,500 |
$64,833 |
| Virginia | -- |
$51,833 |
$52,313 |
$62,583 |
$55,576 |
| Washington | $76,364 |
$74,800 |
$74,667 |
$77,625 |
$75,864 |
Rank |
Company name |
# hired in 02-05 |
# hired in 05 alone |
1 |
Microsoft | 51 |
15 |
2 |
Carnegie Mellon | 14 |
3 |
3 |
10 |
8 |
|
4 |
Oracle | 9 |
0 |
5 |
IBM | 9 |
4 |
6 |
Amazon.com | 9 |
2 |
7 |
Lockheed Martin | 8 |
0 |
8 |
Factset | 8 |
1 |
9 |
Northrop Grumman | 7 |
1 |
10 |
Citadel | 6 |
2 |
10 |
Goldman Sachs | 6 |
1 |
2004 |
2003 |
2003 |
Total |
|
| Networking | 6 | 8 | 10 | 24 |
| TartanTrak | 18 | 15 | 7 | 40 |
| Previous Employment | 5 | 9 | 7 | 21 |
| TOC | 6 | 7 | 7 | 20 |
| TIE | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Contacted by Company | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| SCS Resume Book | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Self Directed | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| SCS Faculty Member | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Classified (Job Posting) | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
