Five Graduate Degrees That Don't Pay Off

[Agloco]

Takei cracks me up.

[ploto]

Not all payoffs are monetary.

I have a Master's Degree and it is required for me to hold the position that I do. It does not and will never pay a ton of money but it is what I wanted to do, so for me it paid off.

[Agloco]

real talk i noticed the other day that salaries in computer related fields have been dropping from what they used to be. i guess everyone flocked to it, same will happen with nursing. nursing will be like teaching in the future, RN salaries are already down to 64,000. sure you'll be able to get a job, but itll be dirty and hard work for the amount of pay.

Nursing won't go the way of CS, and it certainly won't approach salaries associated with teaching. There's ever increasing demand and the rate of attrition is much too high (for ADN, LVN, LPN, BSN, etc.). Also, in nursing there are options in graduate training (MSN) that substantially increase salaries such as FNP's or Nurse Anesthesists. The former routinely make 80-90k, while the latter make around 120-150k.

You also mention that salaries in Nursing are "down" to 64000. What location and specialty are you referring to? How much experience are you considering? In SA, nursing salaries at the bachelors level are around 45-50k, starting.