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All Institutions, General Studies
Earnings in 2023	Median Wage	Percentage of Graduates w/ Reported Wage
20 Years (2001-02 graduates)	$68,933	39%
15 Years (2006-07 graduates)	$65,300	43%
10 Years (2011-12 graduates)	$61,368	50%
8 Years (2013-14 graduates)	$58,336	55%
5 Years (2016-17 graduates)	$46,344	57%
3 Years (2018-19 graduates)	$37,651	60%
18 Months (2020-21 graduates)	$26,454	57%

Only years/programs meeting disclosure rules will be displayed to protect individual confidentiality.
As reminder, the median value represents the very middle value of the sample of values (wage or debt) sorted from low to high. This value is found in the middle line of the barcharts.
The remaining values in the chart are constructed similarly, to display how wages and earnings are distributed. Thus, while the median tells us the middle wage, the values for the 25th and 75th percentiles tell us that half of the graduates with wages fall between those two values. Likewise, 80% of reported wages fall between the 10th and 90th percentiles. The length of each bar section clue to the dispersion in the data - that is, how much earnings can vary within a range a group of individuals.

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General Studies, Graduates from 2015-16 to 2019-20
Institution	Median Wage	Percentage Students w/ Reported Wage	Median Debt	Percentage Students with Debt
Brightpoint Community College	$18,811	64%	$9,898	36%
Northern Virginia Community College	$22,945	57%	$10,888	38%
Piedmont Virginia Community College	$18,830	58%	$9,832	30%
Tidewater Community College	$20,716	54%	$11,386	45%
Virginia Western Community College	$18,634	59%	$10,503	37%