{"id":123,"date":"2018-07-10T08:40:21","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T12:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/financialliteracycenter\/?p=123"},"modified":"2018-07-10T08:45:35","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T12:45:35","slug":"is-college-worth-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/financialliteracycenter\/2018\/07\/10\/is-college-worth-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Is College Worth It?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-129 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/financialliteracycenter\/files\/2018\/07\/accomplishment-celebrate-ceremony-267885-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/financialliteracycenter\/files\/2018\/07\/accomplishment-celebrate-ceremony-267885-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/financialliteracycenter\/files\/2018\/07\/accomplishment-celebrate-ceremony-267885-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/financialliteracycenter\/files\/2018\/07\/accomplishment-celebrate-ceremony-267885-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With the rising cost of higher education, you might wonder if college is worth the time and money.\u00a0 Does additional education really make a difference in earning potential?<\/p>\n<p>In a May 2018 article, using information obtained from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/\">U.S. Census Bureau<\/a>, Amelia Josephson, of <a href=\"https:\/\/smartasset.com\/retirement\/the-average-salary-by-education-level\">SmartAsset,<\/a>\u00a0identified the average U.S. salary by education level.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Average Salary by Education Level:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Average Salary with Less Than a High School Diploma &#8211; $25,256<\/li>\n<li>Average Salary with a High School Diploma &#8211; $35,256<\/li>\n<li>Average Salary with Some College, No Degree &#8211; $38,376<\/li>\n<li>Average Salary with an Associate\u2019s Degree &#8211; $41,496<\/li>\n<li>Average Salary with a Bachelor\u2019s Degree &#8211; $59,124<\/li>\n<li>Average Salary with a Master\u2019s Degree &#8211; $69,732<\/li>\n<li>Average Salary with a Professional Degree &#8211; $89,960<\/li>\n<li>Average Salary with a Doctorate &#8211; $84,396<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Although you may become a high wage earner without a diploma or degree,\u00a0the statistics emphasize the overall benefit of higher education in relation to earning potential.\u00a0 \u00a0Remember, salary isn&#8217;t everything; therefore, only you can determine if college will truly be worth it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the rising cost of higher education, you might wonder if college is worth the time and money.\u00a0 Does additional education really make a difference in earning potential? In a May 2018 article, using information obtained from the U.S. Census Bureau, Amelia Josephson, of SmartAsset,\u00a0identified the average U.S. salary by education level. Average Salary by &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/financialliteracycenter\/2018\/07\/10\/is-college-worth-it\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is College Worth It?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7648,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[881888],"tags":[881902],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-debt","tag-uwwfinancialliteracycenter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/financialliteracycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/financialliteracycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/financialliteracycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/financialliteracycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7648"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/financialliteracycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/financialliteracycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/financialliteracycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions\/134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/financialliteracycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/financialliteracycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/financialliteracycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}