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Table 6 Description of wages (in €), by fields of study, sorted by mean

From: Place of study, field of study and labour-market region: What matters for wage differences among higher-education graduates?

Field of study

N

Mean

Median

SD

Min

Max

English and American studies

12

10.25

9.00

4.27

4.93

19.16

Architecture, interior design

40

11.39

11.49

3.36

5.17

19.16

Design

21

11.84

10.58

5.81

5.17

26.18

German studies

39

12.04

11.97

4.97

2.87

21.43

Administrative science

15

12.36

12.55

3.91

4.60

19.60

Romance studies

9

12.59

12.07

4.25

6.90

20.11

Comparative literature studies and linguistics

8

12.67

12.58

4.20

6.33

20.35

Prot. theology/religious doctrine

7

12.69

11.77

4.96

7.24

19.16

Landscape management, environmental design

34

12.81

12.51

4.09

4.38

24.08

Special pedagogy

29

12.88

12.41

3.37

5.25

23.10

Spatial planning

6

12.92

10.78

5.69

7.57

22.75

Forestry, wood industry

11

13.01

12.26

3.67

7.66

18.68

Social services

121

13.01

13.18

2.67

6.90

23.75

History

16

13.03

12.95

4.34

8.05

20.40

Geography

27

13.12

13.26

4.98

3.45

21.46

Linguistic and cultural sciences

36

13.20

13.07

3.74

7.36

19.16

Music, musicology

5

13.21

13.54

4.00

8.67

18.76

Dental medicine

41

13.23

12.64

3.71

6.96

21.35

Social sciences

37

13.33

14.32

4.56

4.60

21.07

Business and social studies, generally

28

13.46

13.28

4.53

6.51

21.66

Library science, documentation

17

13.46

13.41

4.64

6.90

26.05

Political sciences

20

13.75

14.17

4.53

5.75

20.75

Agricultural sciences

27

13.80

14.56

5.36

3.54

28.54

Educational sciences

91

14.20

13.57

3.65

6.44

25.69

Veterinary medicine

33

14.21

13.22

4.01

8.03

22.43

Psychology

62

14.47

14.84

4.52

5.81

26.82

Geosciences (without geography)

12

14.62

13.79

5.93

6.57

27.53

Sports, sports science

7

14.70

10.25

9.85

7.18

33.33

Chemistry

46

15.19

16.95

4.51

6.67

24.03

Surveying

16

15.22

16.38

4.89

4.54

22.99

Law

47

15.31

14.52

4.15

5.89

24.14

Health sciences

43

15.37

15.52

4.23

6.72

24.84

Biology

41

15.53

16.22

3.89

6.59

22.99

Food sciences and home economics

11

16.03

16.09

6.41

7.25

26.72

Physics, astronomy

49

16.18

17.44

4.98

5.75

29.69

Economic sciences

415

17.02

17.31

5.75

3.33

60.54

Civil engineering

45

17.62

16.09

7.03

8.62

54.50

Computer science

123

17.84

17.24

5.01

7.36

40.23

General engineering

18

17.92

18.49

4.36

6.90

25.24

Mechanical engineering, process engineering

144

18.36

18.07

4.41

7.66

31.85

Industrial engineering

77

19.38

19.16

5.55

6.39

37.72

Mathematics

34

19.49

21.28

6.70

4.89

31.89

Electrical engineering

66

19.82

18.79

5.54

7.36

43.44

Traffic engineering, nautical science

40

20.55

20.11

5.30

8.05

31.69

Human medicine

129

22.39

21.84

6.76

2.76

74.20

Total

2155

2155

2155

2155

2155

2155

  1. Only fields of study with at least five observations are reported;
  2. Data: DZHW Graduate Panel 2009, authors’ calculations
  3. SD standard deviation