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Good Jobs that Pay without a BA
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Georgetown Center and JPMorgan Chase began this project to investigate the
impact overarching structural economic change has had and is having on workers
who do not have a BA. The centerpiece of the collaboration will include an
interactive online database that documents the concentration of these good jobs
nationally, at the state level, by industry and occupation, and by wage.
New research that shows there are still 30 million good jobs for workers without Bachelor’s degrees. Although the decline in the blue-collar economy has eliminated many good high school jobs, Good Jobs that Pay without a BA shows that these good jobs are growing overall, and are associated with a median annual earnings of $55,000. However, these good jobs are shifting from traditional blue-collar industries to skilled-services industries, such as financial services and health services. And, importantly, they increasingly require education beyond high school.
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- Resource Publication Date: 2017
- Organizational Author(s): Georgetown Center and JPMorgan Chase
- Posted by: Maisha Meminger
- Posted in: Youth Connections