College grads overestimating starting salaries...

When I was young and in college, I didn't think of salaries much, I wanted to get a job (any job really) just to get started in the workforce... Back then, we were paid minimum wage, I quickly looked for other jobs until I found something interesting, starting pay was 25K/year, I kept looking for better, and it went higher and higher each year until it stalled at about 45K...

The rest is history... Anyways - Here's an article where it indicates starting salaries of recent college grads at about $56K, but many grads are 'thinking' they should be getting starting salaries of about 85K. Well, it all depends on which industry and position they're looking at, but that's the general idea in the article.

Link: New college graduates are overestimating their starting salaries by $30,000, report finds (msn.com)

 

Without sorting that by region and by major, I'm not sure how much information there really is in there.