Exploration

of Median Salaries for State Schools

Map

Top 10 Mid-Career Salary

All

Bottom 10 Mid-Career Salary

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This map represents the average starting salaries and Mid-Career salaries of students coming out of different universities in the United States.
The color of the dots represent the average starting salary for the universities with the lighter being lowest and the darker being highest. The
size of the dots represent the average Mid-Caeer salary for the universities with the smaller being lowest and the larger being highest. The first
slider on this map shows the top 10 schools with the highest average Mid-Career salaries while the second slider shows the bottom 10 schools
with the lowest average Mid-Career salaries. To use these sliders simply slide the cursor to either All, In, or Out. The All shows all of the
respective schools, the In shows all of the schools inside either the top 10 or Bottom 10 data, and the Out shows all of the schools outside either
the top 10 or bottom 10 data. The trend that I thought was most interesting was that California had the most schools with the highest Mid-Career
salaries, I can infer that this is because California is one of the highest cost of living states in America.

Linear Trendline Logarithmic Trendline

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Mid-Career Median Salary

Mid-Career Median Salary

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Starting Median Salary Starting Median Salary

In my opinion the Linear Trendline scatterplot seems to be a better fit. The highest performing school is University of California, Berkely while the
lowest performing school is Morehead State University in Kentucky. Two of universities that I see overperforms is State University of New York at
Albany and University of Colorado, Boulder. Both of these colleges have an average starting salary while having an above average Mid-Career
salary. A university that underperforms is University of Missouri-Rolla. While still having a good mid-career salary that is slightly above average,
the starting salary is a lot higher above average than most colleges.