$60,703
Grouped estimate · Medium evidence.
Related subjects at 12 matched peer institutions · master's
Historical archive, not a current salary estimate.
Public policy & social services
Public Administration and Social Service Professions, Other
Washington University in St Louis · Saint Louis, MO
Medium evidenceMatched peers12 institutions · related subjectsSee the evidence
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Related subjects at 12 matched peer institutions · master's
Grouped estimate. Middle half of comparison values: $49,536–$69,130.
Historical earnings archive. College Scorecard legacy FOS archive (file dated 2022-01-19; cohorts vary). Do not interpret this as today's graduate salary. Further study and career changes are not modelled by this early-career figure.
| Institution & subject | Reported earnings |
|---|---|
| Georgetown UniversityPublic Policy Analysis | $77,329 |
| Carnegie Mellon UniversityPublic Administration, Public Policy Analysis | $67,290 |
| Tufts UniversityPublic Administration and Social Service Professions, Other | $39,729 |
| Tulane University of LouisianaSocial Work | $41,689 |
| Boston CollegeSocial Work | $50,000 |
| Boston UniversityPublic Administration, Social Work | $64,862 |
| Middlebury CollegePublic Administration | $56,544 |
| University of Southern CaliforniaPublic Administration, Public Administration and Social Service Professions, Other, Public Policy Analysis, Social Work | $67,628 |
| Northwestern UniversityCommunity Organization and Advocacy, Public Administration | $88,832 |
| Cornell UniversityPublic Administration | $55,061 |
| Duke UniversityPublic Policy Analysis | $73,635 |
| Vanderbilt UniversityCommunity Organization and Advocacy, Public Policy Analysis | $48,145 |
How matching & uncertainty work
We first look for the same subject code (or exact subject name), qualification, country, currency, source release and earnings horizon. Peer institutions are matched using admissions selectivity, completion rates, undergraduate size and institution type, with a small preference for the same region. These are institutional proxies, not a ranking of programme quality.
If subject-matched peers are sparse, we try related subjects at closely matched universities, related degrees at this university, then an explicitly labelled national reference. We never multiply a salary by a university prestige score.
Peer and national estimates give each reporting institution one vote, after taking the median of its related programmes. Shared branch-campus outcomes count once. The middle-half range describes variation between reporting institutions. It is not an individual salary range or a statistical confidence interval.
Evidence labels describe match quality and coverage, not validated prediction accuracy. Admissions and size are undergraduate institutional measures, so graduate-degree comparisons are especially approximate.
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