Bachelor's · earnings grade

Is a Human Resources Management and Services degree worth it?

Graduates earn a median $46,321 two years after finishing, more than 62% of bachelor's majors. Measured across 434 US programmes by the Department of Education — real graduate pay, not survey answers.

C

The verdict on the money

It pays around the middle. What you earn will depend more on where you study and what you do with it than on the subject label.

Median earnings $46,321 2 years after finishing · per graduate
Typical range $40,461–$48,849 middle half of US programmes
Over no degree +$6,801 vs $39,520 high-school median
Graduates a year 10,227 434 programmes

Where a Human Resources Management and Services degree pays best US programmes ranked on their own graduates' median earnings two years out.

#University1 yr out2 yrs out3 yrs outGraduates/yr
1 Northwestern University cost & debt at this university → $69,350 $76,995 not published 10
2 Cornell University cost & debt at this university → $65,696 $69,338 $76,851 273
3 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor cost & debt at this university → $61,347 $67,101 $78,975 48
4 Michigan State University cost & debt at this university → $49,074 $63,005 $74,212 104
5 Benedictine University cost & debt at this university → $54,576 $63,005 $64,961 4
6 Colorado State University Global cost & debt at this university → $55,055 $59,193 $60,979 252
7 Immaculata University $48,457 $58,673 not published 5
8 Waldorf University $58,151 $58,390 not published 50
9 Saint Joseph's University - Philadelphia $48,241 $57,995 $68,686 27
10 Brigham Young University cost & debt at this university → $53,041 $57,860 $69,732 48
11 Trinity International University-Illinois not published $57,556 not published —
12 Bethel University not published $57,318 $63,253 15

What this figure does and does not tell you

Two medians are worth separating. $46,321 is what the typical graduate earns — each programme counted in proportion to how many students it graduates. $45,061 is what the typical programme reports, counting a class of twenty the same as a class of two thousand. The weighted figure is higher here, which means the larger programmes in this field are the better-paying ones.

It is the median of what real graduates of this exact major earned, taken from tax records two years after they completed. It is not a starting salary, not an average of job adverts, and not a projection. The median bachelor's major in this dataset reports $36,497, so Human Resources Management and Services sits above the middle by $9,824.

Two years is early in a career. Fields with long training pipelines — medicine, law, research — look weaker at this point than they will at ten, while trades and applied technical fields peak sooner. Read a low figure in a long-pipeline subject as "slow start", not "bad degree".

There is no debt figure here on purpose. The Department of Education publishes earnings by field of study but not borrowing, so nobody can honestly tell you the debt of a specific major. Debt is published per institution — that is where our university cost pages carry it.

Human Resources Management and Services at other levels

Master's — $54,739 (C)

Majors that pay more at this level Closest first — useful if you are still choosing.

Economics — $46,087 Architecture — $46,087 Accounting — $47,260 Allied Health Diagnostic — $47,367 General Sales — $47,846 Real Estate — $49,588

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Human Resources Management and Services: the questions people ask

How much do Human Resources Management and Services graduates earn?
The median bachelor's graduate earns $46,321 two years after finishing (weighting each programme by how many students it graduates), across 185 US programmes that publish the figure. One year out it is $43,848.
Is a Human Resources Management and Services degree worth it?
It pays around the middle. What you earn will depend more on where you study and what you do with it than on the subject label. The median graduate earns $6,801 a year more than a US worker whose highest qualification is a high-school diploma.
What is the salary range for Human Resources Management and Services?
Half of US programmes report medians between $40,461 and $48,849. Where you study moves this figure more than most applicants expect.
How many people graduate in Human Resources Management and Services each year?
About 10,227 students complete a bachelor's in this field each year across 434 US programmes.
Does this include student debt?
No — and deliberately. The Department of Education publishes earnings by field of study but not debt, so any "debt by major" figure you see elsewhere is an estimate. Debt is published per institution, which is why our university pages carry it and this page does not.
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Source: US Department of Education College Scorecard, field-of-study earnings (median earnings of graduates who received federal financial aid, measured 1–3 years after completion). Figures are per major and credential level, pooled across US programmes. Information only, not financial advice.