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(NewsNation) — A college degree isn't the lone way to a six-figure salary. At slightest 40% of Americans without a bachelor's grade earn $100,000 oregon more, according to LendingTree.
In total, 5.7 cardinal full-time workers without a bachelor's grade marque six figures — astir 9% of the workforce.
Among occupations, main executives and legislators apical the list, with 63% of those holding the jobs earning six figures without a bachelor's degree. Architectural and engineering managers travel astatine 60%, and 56% of bundle developers besides scope that level.
Metro areas with the highest shares of six-figure earners without a grade include:
- San Francisco — 17%
- Seattle — 17%
- San Jose, Calif.: 16%
At the bottom: Greensboro, North Carolina, and El Paso, Texas, some astatine 4%, and Lakeland, Florida, astatine 5%.
The sex wage disparity is sharp. Of the 5.7 cardinal six-figure earners without a bachelor's degree, 4.4 cardinal are men, and lone 1.3 cardinal are women.
Men marque up 58% of the full-time workforce without degrees, but 77% of six-figure earners. Women relationship for 41% of the non-degree workforce but lone 22% of high-earners.
"The sky-high outgo of a assemblage acquisition has already led galore radical to question whether the grade is worthy it," said Matt Schulz, LendingTree's main user concern analyst. "There's nary question that information showing that radical tin marque six figures without that assemblage grade volition lone marque much radical reconsider that degree."
