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Does Engineering Pay More Than Liberal Arts?
文科生不如工科生賺得多?
The starting pay of certain liberal arts majors generally is well below that of graduates in engineering fields.
某些文科專業畢業生的起薪遠遠低于工科畢業生。
Graduates with engineering degrees earned average starting pay of $56,000 in their first full-time jobs out of college.
工科學生畢業后第一份全職工作的平均起薪是年薪5.6萬美元，
Communications and English majors only earned $34,000 in their first jobs.
而傳媒和英語專業學生畢業后第一份工作的年薪只有3.4萬美元。
The survey, which was conducted by PayScale.com between April and June of this year, was answered by about 11,000 people who graduated between 1999 and 2010.
PayScale.com 今年4 月至6 月間對1.1 萬名1999 年至2010 年間左右的畢業生進行了收入調查。
The reported starting pay was adjusted for inflation to make the salaries of graduates from different years comparable.
為了使不同時間畢業的學生的薪水具有可比性，調查報告數據剔除了通脹因素。
The pay advantage of graduates with technical degrees often persists throughout their careers, said Fort Collins, Colo.-based career counselor Katy Piotrowski.
科羅拉多州職業咨詢師皮奧特羅斯基說，技術專業畢業生相較于文科畢業生的薪水優勢通常會貫穿于整個職業生涯。
Although liberal arts majors have a wide range of salaries, Ms. Piotrowski said that mid-career liberal arts majors she works with in northern Colorado make between $60,000 and $70,000.
她說，盡管不同的文科專業，薪水差別也比較大，但她在北科羅拉多州接觸到的處于職業生涯中期的文科專業畢業生的年薪在6萬到7萬美元之間。
Those with technical degrees make at least $10,000 more.
畢業于技術專業的人的薪水至少高出1萬美元。
“Technical majors even have an advantage in fields that are typically hotbeds for liberal arts majors ” , she said.
她說，甚至在文科專業本應該很吃香的領域，技術專業也占有優勢。
“Technical degrees are valued in all fields. I’ve seen a company communications department actually prefer that someone have an engineering degree rather than a communications degree,”she said.
所有的行業都重視技術專業人才，我曾看到一個公司的溝通部門竟然更喜歡工程學畢業的人，而不是傳媒系。
In the study, among the highest-paying liberal arts majors in the study was economics, at $42,000.
調查還發現，經濟學是起薪最高的文科專業，年薪為4.2萬美元。
The most successful liberal arts majors either go to grad school or begin to develop their career through internships while still in school, Ms. Brooks said.
布魯克斯說，最成功的文科專業人才不是去讀研究生深造，就是在還沒畢業時就開始通過實習為自己的事業打基礎。
The PayScale survey was done as part of The Wall Street Journal's Paths to Professions project, which looked at a selection of jobs in careers deemed satisfying, well-paid and with growth potential.
PayScale 的這份調查是《華爾街日報》“職業道路”項目的一部分，該項目旨在找出那些最令人滿意的、待遇優厚、潛力巨大的職業。
PayScale surveyed people who hold jobs in industries such as health care, finance and government.
PayScale 調查了在多個行業工作的人，包括醫療、金融或政府部門等。
