The State of the Humanities 2018: Graduates in the Workforce & Beyond
Bachelor鈥檚 Degree Holders鈥 Job Satisfaction, by Field of Bachelor鈥檚 Degree, 2014

As one measure of job satisfaction, the 2014 Gallup-Purdue Index study of alumni shows little correspondence between job satisfaction and median earnings. On the contrary, roughly equal shares of bachelor鈥檚 degree holders in the humanities and engineering reported they were 鈥渄eeply interested in the work that I do鈥 (about 72%) and that their job provided the 鈥渙pportunity to do what I do best every day鈥 (about 70%). Even larger shares of bachelor鈥檚 degree holders from the fields with the lowest median earnings (education and the arts) reported that they felt this way about their work.1