Exploration of Starting and Mid-Career Salaries For US State Schools

Dot Map Showing Starting and Mid-Career Salaries

Top 10 Mid-Career Salary

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Bottom 10 Mid-Career Salary

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This is a map of the median salaries of state schools around the country. The darker dots represent a school with a higher median mid-career salary, and the lighter representing higher median
starting salaries. The first slider represents the top 10 median salaries between the schools. Feel free to slide it to the right to see the top 10 schools in the data set. The same can be seen with
the second slider which shows the bottom 10 schools.

Scatter Plot With Logarithmic Trend-Line Scatter Plot With Linear Trend-Line
Mid-Career Median Salary

Mid-Career Median Salary

$100,000 $100,000

$80,000 $80,000

$60,000 $60,000

$35,000 $40,000 $45,000 $50,000 $55,000 $35,000 $40,000 $45,000 $50,000 $55,000

Starting Median Salary Starting Median Salary

These are scatterplots of the average trends of mid-career median and starting salaries of US state schools using a logarithmic and linear line of
best fit. Morehead State University can be seen as the lowest school with University of California Berkley being the highest. The logarithmic
trendline seems to be a better fit, more accurately depicting the trend of the data.