Salary information sources

NACE [National Association of Colleges and Employers]
2012 Guide to compensation for interns and co-ops
Published April 2012. Based on responses from 280 organizations that responded to the NACE internship/co-op survey conducted Nov. 2011 through Jan. 2012.
Includes hourly wage rates by major, degree and year of study.
2011 Internship Survey infographic: intern hourly wage by major.
Shows wage rate for 15 academic majors; data for 2011 juniors pursuing bachelor's degree.
Research brief with more detail and master's level co-op/intern wage rates.

Salaries of students ENROLLED in the Virginia Tech Cooperative Education | Internship Program (CEIP). Majority are engineering majors; a small number are business majors.

Use INTERN in JOB TITLE to search intern salaries on GlassDoor.com > Salaries
Source: Salaries posted anonymously by employees and employers.

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Virginia Tech Post-Graduation Report salary chart by college | major for those who completed UNDERGRADUATE degrees
Career Services' annual survey of VT bachelor's degree (and one associate's degree) graduates closes six months after commencement. Report includes medians and percentiles, by college and by major*, of salaries reported by employed graduates.
* Median salary for a major is available IF at least four graduates reported a salary.
25th and 75th percentiles are available if at least 12 graduates reported a salary.

The Post-Graduation Survey is not conducted with graduate students. Based on a careful analysis of the numbers of graduates per year by graduate program at Virginia Tech, employment percentages and response rate of graduates, for the vast majority of programs there are insufficient numbers to provide median salary data for graduates of graduate programs; thus we do not attempt to collect this on a university-wide basis. However, your academic department may in fact collect this... see next item for additional information.

Virginia Tech GRADUATE STUDENTS interested in salary data for graduates of your program are encouraged to:
(1) View the website of your academic department. They may collect and publish salary data of graduates.
(2) Contact your academic department (graduate studies coordinator, career advisor, department chair, etc.) to ASK if your program collects such data (even if you don't find it published online), or if the faculty and staff are familiar with the career plans and status of the program's graduates;
AND
(3) research comprehensive salary sources, which in many cases enable you to find data by industry, location, years of work experience, and other factors that can influence salary. This may be more useful that knowing the salaries of a small number of classmates without knowing their industries, locations, and years of prior work experience.

NACE = National Association of Colleges and Employers:
Gathers, analyzes, and publishes salary information to assist new graduates and employers.

NACE methodology: NACE data is provided in partnership with Job Search Intelligence (JSI). Using patents pending algorithms and datasets which are proprietary to JSI and are derived from: U.S. Department of Labor, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. Federal Reserve, and proprietary resources.

NACE Salary Calculators for JOB SEEKERS and EMPLOYERS
Job seeker calculator serves both undergraduate and graduate students: This is a "give-to-get" tool; you'll have to provide required information in your salary query.

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NACE Salary data and employment totals by occupation, 2003-2010
Scroll down to select occupation category and occupation for more specific data.

NACE Salary Survey — new graduate salary data
Some reports are for members only, and some are free to anyone.
Reports to be published January, April, and September.

Includes:

Free-to-all: Executive Summary Reports
Published January, April and September; 8-page reports with salary medians and ranges by discipline, top-paying and top-hiring industries with average starting salaries.

Members-only reports:
May be viewed in hard copy in Career Services during office hours; the report is copyrighted by NACE, and we do not have permission to publish this report online.
These include bachelor's degree new graduate salaries by major and industry; salary ranges for majors and clusters: business; engineering; humanities; social science; math and science.
VT students: We are happy to assist you in finding information in the report through an advising appointment or walk-in advising.
Employers: you are invited to contact our employer relations staff for information contained in the report.

Career Services does not own or maintain the web sites listed below.
Links are provided as a service to Virginia Tech students and alumni.
We encourage you to use free services online.
Career Services does not endorse any fee-based products or services.

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Bureau of Labor Statistics, Wages, Earnings & Benefits
BLS is part of the U.S. Dept. of Labor, and collects and "publishes a large amount of information" on this topic.

Career Bliss.com > Salaries
Salaries based on submissions by anyone. View salaries by location, state, city, zipcode, job title, industry, company. Data may be more useful if looking at larger organizations for which more employees submitted salaries. Watch the N; even if just one person submits a salary, that is reported.

CNNMoney - Best Places to Live
Includes median home sale prices and median family income (multiple years of data)

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Glass Door.com
Salaries are posted by individuals. View by job title or company.

JobStar.org > profession-specific salary survey data

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PaycheckCity.com
Use free salary paycheck calculator to determine deductions from your gross pay, and thus net pay.

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Payscale.com > Free Salary and Benefits Report
Payscale.com cost of living calculator
Site requires you to complete a survey. Site quote:
"Find out what you're worth in less than five minutes... tell a little bit about your current job and work history and see if you're being paid fairly... survey is anonymous and resulting salary and benefits report is ...free."

Public Employee Salaries on Find The Data.org
Listed by state, job sector, gives numbers of employees, mean full-time hourly wage and other statistics.

Salaries by Job & Industry on Find The Data.org
Job title, industry title, total employment, annual salary average.
Sort data list by any heading.
Salaries by City on Find The Data.org
Also shows job title, state, total employment N, annual salary average.
Sort data by any heading.

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Salary.com
Salary.com > Cost of living for states and cities in the U.S.
Select job category and location, see salary ranges; quick and easy to use. Job categories and job titles on two diffent menus; slightly different search mechanism from SalaryExpert.com and WetFeet.com.

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SalaryExpert.com
Salary Expert.com > Cost of living calculator
Salary Expert.com > Where does cost of living come into play?
(salaryexpert.com > ask the expert > featured questions > where does cost of living...)
Basic data free of charge. View salaries for many positions by location.
Same data source as WetFeet.com.
Data drawn from SalaryReview.com which charges a fee for salary reports.
Excellent articles from CareerJournal.com / Wall Street Journal.

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Simply Hired.com
Search by keyword and location to find average salaries by job title.
They note that "Average ... salaries can vary greatly due to company, location, industry, experience and benefits."

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WetFeet.com
Search for career overviews to read about a specific career; some include compensation data.