Census Bureau: Supplement to Education and Synthetic Work-life Earnings

WASHINGTON, Nov. 17, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following release was issued today by the U.S. Census Bureau:

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In September, the Census Bureau released a study that examined the economic value of educational attainment by estimating the amount of money that people might earn over the course of a 40-year career given their level of education. In response to the high level of media interest in these findings, the Census Bureau today released a series of supplemental tables. These tables include an estimate for the total population — all people regardless of gender, race, and Hispanic origin. They show that a person with a bachelor's degree working full time from ages 25 to 65 would have $1 million more in earnings than a similar person with high school diploma. Internet address: http://www.census.gov/hhes/socdemo/education/data/acs/index.html.

News release: http://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/education/cb11-153.html.
Report: http://www.census.gov/prod/2011pubs/acs-14.pdf

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SOURCE U.S. Census Bureau