13% of CompSci Grads Have Starting Salaries Over $100K

itwbennett writes: That was one of the findings of a survey of 50,000 U.S. college students and recent graduates by Looksharp, a marketplace for internships and entry-level jobs. For general findings across all majors, check out the State of College Hiring Report 2015. But the company shared some more computer science-specific findings with Phil Johnson. Among them: "Of all majors, students studying in CS had the highest average starting salary, $66,161." And, what's more, they know the value of their degree: "On average, they expected a starting salary of $68,120, slightly above the actual average starting salary of $66,161."

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[crow_t_robot]

Bullshit. Not believing any of this till I see paystubs.

Undergrad only?

[assantisz]

Are they talking about undergrads or did they include graduate students and PhD graduates as well? I really doubt that somebody fresh from college with an undergrad degree can make mid $60k right off the bat.

Re:People are overpaid in the USA

[fustakrakich]

Gotta cover the prices. The rest of the world is underpaid. Nobody should ever have to work more than an hour to buy a case of decent beer.

I hope they realize...

[Pfhorrest]

I hope all these CS graduates making this kind of money right out of college realize the kind of rarefied strata that they are in.

More than half of all people on the country make less than half of their starting salaries.

I see so much flippancy from some people here in Slashdot who don't seem to realize the kind of money that most people in this country have to live on.

Re:I hope they realize...

[Pfhorrest]

It's not about guilt, it's about recognizing the way that other people have to live, so that when you make broad generalizations about society you don't assume that everybody has he advantages you have and dismiss the problems they suffer from lacking those advantages.

I kinda hate the way "privilege" gets thrown around a lot of the time, but this is pretty much the clearest sense of privilege here. And like all privilege, the point is not that it's bad that some people have it and they should feel guilty for it; it's bad that a lot of people don't have it, and those who do should bear in mind the different challenges that those who don't face.