Another Salary Report

From Georgetown's Center on Education and the Workforce comes another salary report by undergraduate major. No serious surprises here, but I do like their methodology. The CEW breaks down earnings by both occupation and field of study, since in many cases a major in college is not vocational. For example:

However, most majors lead to broad sets of occupations. The underlying data suggests
that this is one explanation of earnings variation. For instance:

Physics majors can be found in

Computer occupations (19 percent),  
Management occupations (19 percent),
Engineering occupations (14 percent)
and Sales occupations (9 percent).

Also interesting, but not surprising, among the top ten majors with the biggest difference between 25th and 75th percentile earnings:

Physics  25th $38,000  75th $105,000  Median $67,000