Workforce
Introduction
In addition to the indicators below, the Humanities Indicators has developed state-level profiles of humanities graduates' employment outcomes, including earnings and unemployment estimates by race/ethnicity, gender, and discipline.
The indicators in this section of the indicator set explore the relationship between higher education in the humanities and subsequent employment. What are the occupations and professions of those who received their undergraduate and graduate degrees in the humanities? What are their salaries compared to those with educational backgrounds in other fields? What are their levels of job satisfaction? This part of the Humanities Indicators concludes with a section that focuses on a segment of the humanities workforce that has attracted much attention in recent years: postsecondary faculty. While this section covers such topics as their demographic characteristics and institutional status, the data also allow for comparisons of humanities faculty with those who teach in other fields and thus can help to inform ongoing debates about the flexibility and diversity of the academic workforce.
Indicators
Earnings & Occupations of Humanities Majors
- Occupations of Humanities Majors with a Terminal Bachelor’s Degree
- Occupations of College Humanities Majors Who Earned an Advanced Degree
- The Employment Status of Humanities Majors
- Gender and the Occupations of Humanities Majors
- Earnings of Humanities Majors with a Terminal Bachelor’s Degree
- Earnings of Humanities Majors with an Advanced Degree
- Effect of Experience on the Earnings of College Majors
- Effect of Gender on the Earnings of Humanities Majors
- Job Satisfaction of Humanities Majors
- Humanities Majors and the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT)
- Humanities Majors and the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT)
- Humanities Majors and the Law School Admission Test (LSAT)
- Humanities Majors in the Professions and Other Occupations
Career Paths of Graduates with Advanced Degrees in the Humanities
- Job Status of Humanities Ph.D.’s at Time of Graduation
- Occupations of Master’s Degree Recipients in the Humanities
- Occupations of Humanities Ph.D.'s
- Earnings of Humanities Master’s Degree Recipients
- Earnings of Humanities Ph.D.’s
- Job Satisfaction of Humanities Master’s Degree Recipients
- Job Satisfaction of Humanities Ph.D. Recipients
Postsecondary Humanities Faculty
