Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics: earnings by state

What Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics graduates typically earn 4 years out, in each state.

Graduates with a bachelor's in Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics typically earn most 4 years out in New York ($68,942) and least in Kentucky ($47,864). Pay usually follows local wages and living costs, so a high figure isn't a reason on its own to study there.

Median of school medians, earnings 4 years after graduating, today's dollars. Blank: fewer than 3 schools report. Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars.
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Median of school medians, earnings 4 years after graduating, today's dollars. Blank: fewer than 3 schools report. Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars.
StateMedian earnings
Alabama—
Alaska—
Arizona$60k
Arkansas—
California$57k
Colorado—
Connecticut$68k
Delaware—
District of Columbia—
Florida$57k
Georgia$66k
Hawaii—
Idaho$48k
Illinois$56k
Indiana$61k
Iowa$59k
Kansas—
Kentucky$48k
Louisiana—
Maine—
Maryland$64k
Massachusetts$65k
Michigan$54k
Minnesota$59k
Mississippi—
Missouri—
Montana—
Nebraska—
Nevada—
New Hampshire—
New Jersey$65k
New Mexico—
New York$69k
North Carolina$54k
North Dakota—
Ohio$58k
Oklahoma—
Oregon$54k
Pennsylvania$64k
Rhode Island—
South Carolina$65k
South Dakota—
Tennessee—
Texas$59k
Utah$68k
Vermont—
Virginia—
Washington$62k
West Virginia—
Wisconsin$59k
Wyoming—

Every state, highest first

StateMedian, 4 years outSchools
New York$68,94215
Connecticut$68,4576
Utah$67,8735
Georgia$65,5584
New Jersey$65,3758
South Carolina$65,2424
Massachusetts$64,6759
Pennsylvania$64,29510
Maryland$63,5803
Washington$62,1916
Indiana$60,7156
Arizona$59,5364
Minnesota$59,1987
Iowa$59,0494
Wisconsin$58,9098
Texas$58,58413
Ohio$58,20012
California$57,45427
Florida$56,7454
Illinois$56,49713
North Carolina$54,4537
Oregon$53,9655
Michigan$53,9409
Idaho$47,9963
Kentucky$47,8645

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