State of the Humanities 2022: From Graduate Education to the Workforce
Employment Sector of New Doctorate Recipients in Humanities and Arts with a Definite U.S. Employment Commitment, 1988鈥2020
Employment Sector of New Doctorate Recipients in Humanities and Arts with a Definite U.S. Employment Commitment, 1988鈥2020

While the share of new humanities and arts PhDs with a definite U.S. employment commitment who were taking an academic job decreased by almost 15 percentage points from 2008 to 2020 (the period during which listings of such jobs declined precipitously, as described in Academic Job Openings Listed with Scholarly Societies in the Humanities, by Discipline, 2002鈥2020), the share entering not-for-profit organizations increased 6 percentage points. Modest growth, of approximately 4 percentage points each, was also observed in the shares entering industry/business or employment in the 鈥渙ther or unknown鈥 category, which consists largely of K鈥12 education jobs.21