Discover Your Earning Potential With New SUNY Dashboard
October 21, 2019
Wondering what your earning potential is once you graduate and begin pursuing a career? Well, you can get a good idea now, thanks to a new SUNY online dashboard called gradwages. What you’ll learn in just one visit is that Farmingdale graduates are earning excellent salaries 10 years after graduation.
Gradwages combines academic data from SUNY with wage data from the NYS Department of Labor, to show median wages in specific degree programs. The interactive tool shows wages one, two, three, five, and 10 years post-graduation, and allows students to research by field of study and campus.
“We are pleased to gather this data into an easy-to-use tool that will help both prospective and current students make informed choices about their majors and career paths,” said SUNY Chancellor Kristina M. Johnson. “Students choose their degree major based on any number of variables, and some may not consider their earnings potential. For those who do, SUNY gradwages gives students and their parents an expectation of what they can earn years after college, which can then help guide them towards decisions that best suit their personal and financial circumstances.”
Examples of FSC’s projected wages by degree program, first and tenth year, include:
- Construction Management Engineering Technology
- $51, 325 $126,059
- Professional Communications
- $33,972 $90,432
- Nursing
- $89,986 $99,081
- Mechanical Engineering Technology
- $51,290 $86,384
- Professional Pilot
- $29,004 $80,676
- Ornamental Horticulture
- $37,096 $86,826
- Business Management
- $38,072 $63,502
You can find all FSC degree programs on the dashboard.
Another perspective is FSC – after two and five years in the workforce – vs. all SUNY schools. FSC graduates earned an average of $52K in their second year, while all SUNY grads earned an average of $46K. After five years the margin grew, from $6K to $8K.
Farmingdale’s most recent survey of alumni – 2017-2018 – reveals that 94% of baccalaureate degree recipients are employed and/or continuing their education within six months of graduation. Of that group, 73% are working full time and 95% are working in Metro New York, with the majority (82%) working on Long Island. Seventy-one percent of employed respondents are working in a new job related to their degree (39%) or continuing in a related job (32%).
The SUNY gradwages platform illustrates the value FSC provides its students.
