Bachelor's · earnings grade

Is a Specialized Sales degree worth it?

Graduates earn a median $45,215 two years after finishing, more than 47% of bachelor's majors. Measured across 93 US programmes by the Department of Education — real graduate pay, not survey answers.

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 $45,215 2 years after finishing · per graduate

Typical range $33,993–$39,261 middle half of US programmes

Over no degree +$5,695 vs $39,520 high-school median

Graduates a year 2,049 93 programmes

Where a Specialized Sales degree pays best US programmes ranked on their own graduates' median earnings two years out.

#	University	1 yr out	2 yrs out	3 yrs out	Graduates/yr
1	Saint Joseph's University - Philadelphia	$51,025	$55,371	$63,500	133
2	Northwood University	$53,419	$53,775	$66,020	35
3	Marist University	$45,004	$49,344	$62,054	104
4	Baylor University cost & debt at this university →	$43,995	$46,478	$56,320	14
5	Fashion Institute of Technology	$44,667	$45,889	$53,713	481
6	LIM College	$41,027	$45,215	$50,801	109
7	Texas Christian University cost & debt at this university →	$43,817	$43,426	$53,583	58
8	Ferris State University cost & debt at this university →	$39,068	$42,682	$46,441	17
9	University of Georgia	$38,422	$42,123	$49,508	82
10	Dominican University	not published	$41,565	$40,929	8
11	Thomas Jefferson University cost & debt at this university →	$39,017	$40,017	$45,970	27
12	University of North Texas cost & debt at this university →	$40,106	$39,261	$46,348	108

What this figure does and does not tell you

Two medians are worth separating. $45,215 is what the typical graduate earns — each programme counted in proportion to how many students it graduates. $35,849 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 Specialized Sales sits above the middle by $8,718.

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.

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

Sustainability Studies — $35,903 Biotechnology — $36,420 Hospitality Management — $36,497 Astronomy and Astrophysics — $36,848 Teacher Education — $36,883 Special Education — $37,568

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How much do Specialized Sales graduates earn?

The median bachelor's graduate earns $45,215 two years after finishing (weighting each programme by how many students it graduates), across 43 US programmes that publish the figure. One year out it is $36,231.