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www.educationpays.org
At the most expensive colleges and universities, a four-year degree can be a $150,000 investment in the future. Is it worth it?
On a purely material level, a new Web site can help answer that. At www.educationpays.org, you’ll find median salaries for 106 occupations broken down by educational level.
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Always wanted to be a firefighter? The median salary for that job is about $42,000 for those with a high school diploma. But getting a college degree boosts median pay by 12 grand a year.
The Web site is run by the Employment Policy Foundation, which calculates that a college degree is worth, on average, an extra $875,000 in lifetime earnings.